Living Labs
VALERECO Living Labs are hybrid (digital & physical) multi-actor, open innovation legume-oriented spaces that will be the basis of an EU legume-crops ecosystem to support diversification in industrial farming.
Identify
- Understand the Ecosystem Services (ES) provided by legume crops and identify those that need to be valorised.
- Recognise the barriers to crop diversification and crop rotation by investigating the agrifood value chain downstream actors’ perception of the Ecosystem Services and their benefits.
- Identify gateways for penetration of legume crops into the new Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).
Valorize
- Design and deploy behavioural design strategies to promote the adoption of legumes in production and consumption
- Organise on-station participatory trials in 6 countries to assess the performance of major and minor-underutilised legume crops in diversified farming systems, providing indicators for the 3D diversification agroecological practices and the assessment of N fixation, weed suppression and climate-change adaptability of legumes.
- 3 major pulses (soybean, pea, chickpea)
- 5 major forages (vetch, clover, white clover, red clover, lucerne)
- 1 minor forage (sulla)
- 4 minor grain legumes (lupins, faba, bean, lentil)
- Demonstrate and co-create technical economically and environmentally assessed solutions for legume inclusion in cropping systems, providing also indicators for their economic and environmental benefits
- Life cycle assessment (LCA)
- Technical feasibility analysis
- Cost-benefit analysis
6 Countries
- Greece
- Italy
- Netherlands
- Serbia
- Spain
- Portugal
