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FP6 - GOCE-CT-2004-505582
KASSA - Knowledge Assessment and Sharing on Sustainable Agriculture |
| Type of Project | Specific Support Action |
| Contract No | FP6 - GOCE-CT-2004-505582. |
| Total Cost | 29.74 KEuro |
| EC Contribution | 16.79 KEuro |
| Start Date | 1-6-2004 |
| Duration | 48 Months |
Abstract
KASSA is an EC-FP6 Specific Support Action aiming at the capitalisation of results from past on-going research on sustainable agriculture.
Conventional agriculture encompasses about half of the agricultural land territory of the UE countries; its negative impacts on the environment and the basic natural resources are recognised. Growing concerns of the society related to the environment deterioration such as water and food contaminations, livestock epidemics... compel to explore new ways able to improve the sustainability of the current farming systems.
Alternative agricultural practices, technologies and approaches in support of sustainable agriculture have already been researched, developed, tested and implemented during the second half of the 20thcentury, in Europe but mainly in North and South America and Australia they span million hectares.
Learning from the results of theses experiences and researches and sharing lessons will undoubtedly contribute to define ways and tools able to orient European policy on sustainable agriculture development.
The KASSA proposal intends to build up a comprehensive knowledge base on sustainable agricultural practices, approaches and systems in support of European stakeholders: farmers and professionals, researchers and policy makers at local, national, European and global level.
KASSA involves a critical mass of skilled partners dispatched up into four platforms:
It will be achieved through successive work sequences starting with a comprehensive inventory of existing results then continuing with a progressive refinement of the findings that alternate critical analysis and sharing of the results of each platform.
The overall objective of KASSA is to build up a comprehensive knowledge base assembling international experience on sustainable agriculture and emphasising pathways, conditions and challenges to be considered by European stakeholders (farmers, researchers and policymakers) in order to improve agricultural sustainability in Europe. KASSA will make it possible to learn from past and ongoing research activities and technology implementation to identify gaps, scope for the collaboration of potential stakeholders and the major social, cultural, technical and economic issues. This will lead to bringing to the fore the major research questions to be addressed, and the practical learning and capacity building conditions to support agricultural sustainability strengthening in Europe and Southern countries.
KASSA will be achieved through an inventory and analysis of experience and results on sustainable agricultures, the synthesis and sharing of lessons learned in Europe and Southern countries and gap analysis and fill-in. KASSA will be built on 3 successive tasks each followed by a validation meeting:
An external panel of experts will contribute to the critical analysis and validation of KASSA results before their final delivery. The prospects for sustainable agriculture in Europe will be addressed at the time of the closing international conference. KASSA results and findings, recommendations and the major future research actions will be delivered at that time.
Coordinator
Centre de Coopeeration Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Developpement Department Cultures Annuelles - Programme Gestion des Ecosystèmes Cultivés, France
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