European farming Living Labs perspective for Climate Change and Biodiversity in Food Systems 

The workshop introduces two Horizon Europe funded Living Labs projects Eco-ready and Climate Farm Demo, building on a network of pilot farmers who will implement and demonstrate climate-smart solutions for a carbon-neutral Europe, ensuring food security and biodiversity preservation.

These Living Labs’ unique and innovative methodologies provide essential bottom-up approaches in terms of policy recommendations for agriculture, climate change and biodiversity management at farm level and higher levels. Lessons learned from the implementation of the Living Labs approach will then inform scale-up and future multi-actor partnerships for climate-smart innovation and application.

In a second time, the panel will open the floor to break out groups with different questions to the audience regarding feedbacks on policy recommendations processes, identified impacts, barriers and key contributions for dissemination leverage.

This workshop will engage with participants on how Living Labs are providing bottom-up and inclusive approaches to policy development and agriculture impact monitoring on climate change and biodiversity through Europe. Discussions will also focus on these projects’ early policy conclusions within the current European framework and how to leverage these recommendations.

The event will be held online and in English from 11.30 to 13.30 CEST (13.30–15.30 GST).

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