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ONGOING Project

TAPELINE

• • Full title: Transitioning to Agroecology through Participatory Learning, Implementation of TAPE Tool, strategizing and Networking, and Enrolment

  • Project type: Co-financed by the EU

  • Duration: April 2025 to March 2028

  • Overview: Despite significant progress in recent decades, such as the formalization of the 10 principles of agroecology (AE) by the FAO in 2018, the conceptualization and implementation of AE in the broader context of food systems at the territorial scale remains anecdotal. The European “Green Deal”, “Farm to table” and “Biodiversity” strategies support this transformative change and recognize the crucial role of the territorial scale, but a boost is still needed to spread the adoption of AE principles at this level of scale. As part of the TAPELINE project, we will be working on this dissemination at Wallonia level.

  • Website: [coming soon]

INTERCROPVALUES

• • Full title: Developing Intercropping for agrifood Value chains and Ecosystem Services delivery in Europe and Southern countries

  • Project type: Horizon Europe

  • Duration: Novembre 2022 to October 2026

  • Overview: the project aims to exploit the benefits of intercropping to design and manage productive, diversified, resilient, profitable, environmentally friendly cropping systems acceptable to farmers and actors in the agri-food chain. As a multi-disciplinary and multi-actor project, it brings together scientists and local actors representing the food value chain. It includes 27 participants from 15 countries (3 continents) from a wide diversity of organizations and stakeholders.

  • Website: https://intercropvalues.eu/

ENFASYS

• • Full title: ENcouraging Farmers towards sustainable farming SYstems through policy and business Strategies

  • Project type: Horizon Europe

  • Duration: September 2022 to Augyst 2026

  • Overview: The project aims to stimulate a just and robust transition to sustainable, productive, climate-neutral, biodiversity friendly and resilient farming systems (SFS) by finding effective policies and business strategies that encourage farmers to change their production systems.

  • Website: https://www.enfasysproject.eu/

FOODCoST

• • Full title: FOOD Costing and Internalisation of Externalities for System Transition

  • Project type: Horizon Europe

  • Duration: June 2022 to May 2026

  • Overview: The project aims to support the transition towards sustainable food systems by proposing a harmonising methodology to calculate externalities in climate, biodiversity, environmental, social and health along the food value chain. Beyond providing instruments for valuation and internalisation of externalities, the project dives into the understanding of barriers impeding the adoption of innovative practices, at both business and policy level.

  • Website: https://www.foodcost-project.eu/

Completed Projects

DiverIMPACTS

• Full title: Diversification through rotation, intercropping, multiple cropping, promoted with actors and value-chains towards sustainability

• Project type: Horizon Europe

• Duration: June 2017 to May 2022

• Overview: The overall goal of DiverIMPACTS is to achieve the full potential of diversification of cropping systems for improved productivity, delivery of ecosystem services and resource-efficient and sustainable value chains.

• Website: https://www.diverimpacts.net/