The kick-off meeting of AgroServ will be the opportunity to present the vast panorama of agroecology as a science, and its implications for the society and the economy. It will be the opportunity to establish strong links between the participating RIs, but also with the RIs from other continents, as well as the stakeholders, such as the future partnership on agroecology living labs and research infrastructures, or the missions on soil health, and climate change.
Developing a resilient and sustainable agriculture system, and the agroecological transitions requires a deep understanding of agroecosystems, their interactions with the environment, and management practices. AgroServ features a consortium of 12 research infrastructures, most of them being on the EU roadmap, and a vast offer of services at all scales, from the molecule to the organism, to the ecosystem, to the society. AgroServ will facilitate a systemic and holistic approach to understand the threats and challenges agriculture is facing, towards the implementation of a resilient and sustainable agri-food system. We propose a transdisciplinary offer of services, integrating the actors of the agriculture system in the research process, of which the farmers are the first, thanks to a wide offer of living labs across Europe. Most of the relevant field of sciences are represented in AgroServ, from natural to social sciences. Results from the research performed under AgroServ will be synthetized to be use in the scope of evidence-based policy making. The kick-off meeting of AgroServ will be the opportunity to present the vast panorama of agroecology as a science, and its implications for the society and the economy. It will be the opportunity to establish strong links between the participating RIs, but also with the RIs from other continents, as well as the stakeholders, such as the future partnership on agroecology living labs and research infrastructures, or the missions on soil health, and climate change.
