Work package 6: Strategies, methods and tools to sustain crop diversification all along the value chain

(c) FiBL — Mixed cropping (peas and barley) on an organic farm in Switzerland. Photo: FiBL

WP6 is developing comprehensive and long-term strategies, recommendations and tools to promote the adoption of crop diversification within the current sociotechnical system. This work package has set up a Stakeholder Platform to monitor project outcomes and develop recommendations for relevant sectors along the value chain; and is i) evaluating existing, and developing improved decision support and learning tools that help farmers and advisors assess various diversification alternatives; ii) proposing professional training and education strategies adapted to enable and increase crop diversification; iii) setting up, with local public and regional managers, a roadmap to include cropping system diversification as a key target in their strategies; and iv) proposing, with national and European managers, agricultural policy instruments and economic incentives that can be implemented to foster crop diversification in the long term.

Contact

Katie Bliss, ORC, Work package leader
Sylvain Sturel, APCA, Work package co-leader