Multi-Actor and Transdisciplinary Development of Efficient and Resilient Mixed Farming and Agroforestry Systems (MIXED)
Abstract
Agricultural systems in Europe face challenges in terms of economic, ecological and societal performance. Faced with climate change, there is a need to strengthen the resilience of European agricultural production systems and at the same time ensure efficiency of production in terms of the use of resources such as water, nutrients, land and ecosystem services – thus creating balance and synergy between efficiency and resilience. It is expected that more mixed farming and agroforestry systems (MiFAS) could be part of the solution and should be explored. Adopting a holistic perspective, we define efficiency as the ability to simultaneously increase production, decrease input use, and decrease environmental and social impacts. We thereby also consider the impact of shocks and stresses in order to assess robustness of systems including capacities to adapt and transform. We define resilience of farming systems as their ability to ensure the provision of system functions in the face of increasingly complex and accumulating economic, social, environmental and institutional shocks and stresses, through capacities of robustness, adaptability and transformability. MIXED recognises that efficiency and resilience must be developed with farmers and in the contexts in which farms, farmers’ organizations, service suppliers and value chain actors operate. The overall project objective is to: drive the development of European Mixed Farming and Agroforestry Systems (MiFAS) that optimize efficiency and resource use, reduce GHG emissions, and show greater resilience to climate change by considering agronomic, technical, environmental, economic, institutional, infrastructure and social advantages and constraints. Through a multi-actor and transdisciplinary approach, the project will deliver the expected impacts by achieving the specific objectives organized under four main headings: 1) Co-creation of knowledge and innovations for enhanced Mixed Farming and Agroforestry Systems (MiFAS); 2) Development and assessment of MiFAS; 3) Decision-support for MiFAS; 4) Dissemination and communication.
keywords integration poultry fruit production transdisciplinarity
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Project staff
Werner Zollitsch
Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Werner Zollitsch
werner.zollitsch@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-93211, 99101, 99111
BOKU Project Leader
01.10.2020 - 28.02.2025
Reinhard Geßl
Dipl.-Ing. Reinhard Geßl
reinhard.gessl@boku.ac.at
Project Staff
01.03.2021 - 30.06.2024
Stefan Hörtenhuber
Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Stefan Hörtenhuber
stefan.hoertenhuber@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-93229
Project Staff
01.10.2020 - 28.02.2025
Gwendolyn Prehofer
Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Gwendolyn Prehofer
gwendolyn.prehofer@boku.ac.at
Project Staff
01.10.2020 - 28.02.2025
Roswitha Weißensteiner
Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Roswitha Weißensteiner
roswitha.weissensteiner@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-93232
Project Staff
01.03.2021 - 31.01.2023
BOKU partners
External partners
University of Aarhus
Prof. Tommy Dalgaard
coordinator