Research and agriculture for a better world

What is Agroecology?

production ecology, resource use efficiency, reducing external inputs, adaptive management, animal welfare, social engagement

Tools

The term ‘sustainability’ means different things to different people - a common language is needed to support measuring, understanding and communicating farm sustainability as the basis of the food system. Since 2020, we have been working with the Sustainable Food Trust  to develop a common framework to define and measure whole-farm sustainability, the Global Farm Metric.  

 

As part of the European Agromix project, there were two deliverables (D1.1 and D1.3) dedicated to developing a protocol for an Assessment of Farm-Resilience. We trasnformed these reports into an online Resilience Assessment Tool.

Forest Ecosystem Services Locator, locating filtered forest productivity given user environmental services thresholds (WEFES subTool) 

EcoYield-SAFE - The implementation of YieldSAFE, an agroforestry process based model