Towards SUstainable and REsilient EU FARMing systems (SURE-Farm)

Description:

Farming systems in Europe face a range of economic, environmental and social challenges, including more volatile producer prices, new competitors in internationalised and liberalised markets, unusual weather patterns and higher risks of extreme weather events, upstream and downstream market power along the value chain, private standards, increasing dependence on non-farm land owners and financial institutions, demographic change and increasing urbanisation, changing policies and political risks as well as changing societal concerns and consumer preferences. The accumulation of these uncertainties and their potentially complex interconnections lead to concerns about the long term viability of food and other agricultural production, the sustainability of agricultural systems, the vitality of rural areas and the delivery of ecosystem services.

SURE-Farm aims to analyze, assess and improve the resilience and sustainability of farms and farming systems in the EU. For this purpose, SURE-Farm creates scenarios and a novel and comprehensive resilience-enabling framework, develops a set of advanced risk assessment and management tools as well as an improved demographic assessment model and a resilience assessment tool for policies, and in conjunction with stakeholders, co-creates and applies an integrated resilience assessment model and co-designs implementation roadmaps.

SURE-Farm thereby provides a thorough analysis of the complex challenges to Europe’s agricultural sector and an assessment of relevant policies, building on long-term projections and integrated modelling. By designing novel risk-management tools for farmers, measures to facilitate entry to the sector and validated roadmaps it supports the sector’s resilience.

Project information

Lead

WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY, Netherlands

Partners

KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN, Belgium
EIGEN VERMOGEN VAN HET INSTITUUT VOOR LANDBOUW- EN VISSERIJONDERZOEK, Belgium
UNIVERSITY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE, United Kingdom
ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY, United Kingdom
SVERIGES LANTBRUKSUNIVERSITET, Sweden
UNIVERSITETET I BERGEN, Norway
INSTITUT NATIONAL DE RECHERCHE POUR L'AGRICULTURE, L'ALIMENTATION ET L'ENVIRONNEMENT, France
UNIVERSIDAD POLITECNICA DE MADRID, Spain
UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DELLA TUSCIA, Italy
EIDGENOESSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZUERICH, Switzerland
LEIBNIZ-INSTITUT FUER AGRARENTWICKLUNG IN TRANSFORMATIONSOEKONOMIEN (IAMO), Germany
INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS, Romania
UNIVERSITY OF NATIONAL AND WORLD ECONOMY, Bulgaria
INSTYTUT ROZWOJU WSI I ROLNICTWA POLSKIEJ AKADEMII NAUK, Poland
GEORG-AUGUST-UNIVERSITAT GOTTINGENSTIFTUNG OFFENTLICHEN RECHTS, Germany

Source of funding

H2020-EU.3.2.1.1. - Increasing production efficiency and coping with climate change, while ensuring sustainability and resilience H2020-EU.3.2.1.3. - Empowerment of rural areas, support to policies and rural innovation