CANTOGETHER: Crops and ANimals TOGETHER
CANTOGETHER aims at designing a Mixed Farming System (MFS) at individual farm level or collective implementation at the territorial level. The MFS will be based on the simultaneous utilization of crops (cash, feed and energetic) and various rearing animals with full recycling practices of animal wastes in view to ensure high resource-use efficiency (notably of nutrients), reduction in dependence on external inputs (fertilisers, pesticides, concentrated feeds), and acceptable environmental and economic performances. The most promising innovations were selected and implemented in a pan-European network of 24 case studies (experimental or commercial farms, local groups of farms) to test their feasibility and contribution to sustainability. Besides biogas plants (6 instances), the innovations were mainly based on agroecological principles as diversification of crop rotations (8 instances), valorisation of semi-natural spaces such as landscapes elements and grasslands (12 instances) and optimisation of cover crops (3 instances). The importance of organisational aspects was highlighted: local market development appeared in 4 instances, as did forage banks or systems for farmers to directly exchange products (feed, manure) with each other.
See also: https://smart-akis.com/SFCPPortal/#/app-h/technologies?techid=176
Smart-AKIS: European Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation Systems (AKIS) towards innovation-driven research
in Smart Farming Technology
Ongoing | 2016-2018
in Smart Farming Technology
- Main funding source
- Horizon 2020 (EU Research and Innovation Programme)
- Geographical location
- Greece