workpackages
WP1
Project’s overall management.
WP leaders and coleaders are members of the Project Management Committee (PMC).
Objectives
WP1 involves coordinating activities performed by project partners and ensuring compliance with deliverables. For example, project documentation will be produced, including meeting minutes (from the kick-off, annual and closing meetings) and deliverables.
The objectives of this WP are:
- Coordinate WP activities and ensure communication, collaboration, and flow of information and data between the project partners;
- Organise and execute a monitoring plan of the project activities and provide the required documentation.
Contacts:
Gaio Cesare Pacini (UNIFI) – cesare.pacini@unifi.it
WP2
Objectives
Objectives of WP2 are to identify under a participatory process including farmers, researchers and other stakeholders the vulnerabilities of landscapes under survey, potential solutions to sustainability issues and assemble landscape-specific Agroforestry Living Labs.
Tasks
Task 2.1 – Identify region-specific scenarios and agro-environmental issues, as well as the socio-economic, technical and policy barriers preventing the adoption and scaling up of sustainable agroforestry practices.
Task 2.2 Task 2.2 – Identify landscape-specific sets of agro-environmental indicators for quantifying the performance of alternative agroforestry management options, based on a conceptual model for evaluating the sustainability of land use options.
Task 2.3 – Co-design potential solutions to the sustainability issues and barriers identified in section 2.1 with farmers and other stakeholders, and verify the applicability of the previously selected performance indicators.
Contacts:
Husameddin Alhaj Ali (RSS) – husameddin.hajali@rss.jo
Maria Teresa Sebastià Álvarez (UdL) – teresa.sebastia@udl.cat
sic@kis.si
WP3
Objectives
The objectives of WP3 are to conduct experiments on innovative agroforestry systems in all RevAgroforMed AFLLs, by implementing an experimental design to test and validate combinations of agroforestry systems and innovations.
Tasks
A range of agroecological practices proposed by the stakeholders in WP2 will be tested and validated in RevAgroForMed AFLLs, providing the basis for a sustainable transformation of the agroforestry systems.
Six innovative agroforestry systems will be tested in the RevAgroForMed AFLLs (Algeria, Jordan, Italy (two sites), Slovenia, and Spain), corresponding to relevant WP tasks. All the agroforestry practices implemented in the AFLLs are connected with the CAP eco-schemes.
Contacts:
Gaio Cesare Pacini (UNIFI) – cesare.pacini@unifi.it
Asma el zerey-belaskri (UnOran) – asma.elzerey.belaskri@gmail.com
WP4
Objectives
The objectives of WP4 are to refine existing and established methodologies for technological innovation in all RevAgroforMed AFLLs, adapting them to the characteristics of the corresponding landscapes, and to provide ongoing support for their implementation in AFLL experimental layouts in all countries.
Tasks
Task 4.1 – Precision agriculture
Task 4.2 – Composting in organic farming
Task 4.3 – Inoculation technology for saline and drought tolerance-inducing, symbiotic Rhizobia
Contacts:
Abdelkader Bekki (UnOran) – bekkiabdelkader@gmail.com
Carlo Viti (UNIFI) – carlo.viti@unifi.it
WP5
Objectives
The objectives of WP5 are:
to perform a sustainability impact assessment of agroforestry system innovations in all AFLLs, paying particular attention to features such as productivity, soil quality, response to climate and macroeconomic fluctuations, microbiome and microarthropods;
to identify farm typologies and scale up the outcomes of investigations carried out in lighthouse farms on a landscape scale;
to spread knowledge and raise awareness of this evidence among AFLL stakeholders by involving them in soil quality assessments, building a network of lighthouse and action farms, and carrying out summer schools on related topics.
Tasks
Task 5.1 – Application of the selected indicator framework (AESIS) to assess the impact of innovative systems and technologies in WP3 and 4 in each AFLL.
Task 5.2 – Soil microbial biodiversity evaluation
Task 5.3 – Multi-variate analysis (MVA) procedure to identify farm typologies in AFLLs
Task 5.4 – The main outcomes of sections 5.1 and 5.2 are disseminated through scientific and technical publications to share practical guidelines for farmers and end-users.
Stakeholder awareness will be strengthened by:
i) carrying out workshops on the application of in-field visual methods for soil quality assessment; and
ii) applying digitisation methods to map and trace trends in soil quality records relating to the identified methods.
Contacts:
Jerome Cortet(UPVM) – jerome.cortet@univ-montp3.fr
Rachele Stentella (RSR) – rachele.stentella@semirurali.net
WP6
Objectives
The objectives of WP6 are:
to developAFLL business models to overcome gender, market, technical and overall socio-economic barriers to the adoption of agroforestry practices and innovations,
facilitate communication and dissemination to scale-up practices and innovations at landscape level.
Tasks
Task 6.1 – Gender Action Plan
Task 6.2 – Business model CANVAS: new business models for agroforestry systems, practices, and products.
Task 6.3 – Scale-up at the landscape level of successful combinations of agroforestry systems/innovations tested in lighthouse farms and replicated in action farms.
Task 6.4 – Developing a Dissemination and Communication Plan together with the final drafting of policy briefs to be distributed to local and government institutions.
Contacts:
Maria Teresa Sebastià Álvarez (UdL) – teresa.sebastia@udl.cat
Tomaž Žnidaršič (KIS) – Tomaz.Znidarsic@kis.si