Climate Farm Demo

Context 

Climate Farm Demo is a unique pan-European network of Pilot Demo Farmers (PDFs) covering 28 countries and all pedo-climatic areas. Its overall aim is to accelerate the adoption of Climate Smart Farming (CSF) practices, thereby meeting the targets of the EU Climate strategy.  

To reach this objective, the project adopts a MultiActor approach by connecting 1500 Pilot Demo Farmers and their Climate Farm Advisors (CFAs) at European and national levels to increase knowledge exchange & cross-fertilisation in their respective AKIS. The CFA’s will support the PDFs in implementing Adaptation and Mitigation Measures suggested by contextualised guidelines and will assess & monitor their environmental performance thanks to harmonised methodologies & tools.  

Technical and social innovations covering a broad range of thematic areas will be demonstrated to the wider farming community across six annual demo campaigns by organizing 4500 demo events and supporting interactive and peer-to-peer learning. New and innovative CSF solutions will be co-created in 10 Living Labs spread across Europe, and lessons learned from multi-actor innovation will be shared and scaled.  

A set of public and private rewarding mechanisms will be identified, proposed, and demonstrated to the AKIS actors, thus incentivising the uptake of CSF solutions while ensuring sustainable business models. Strategic and operational cooperation will be organised with projects, flagship initiatives, and policy-makers at European and national levels in order to share knowledge, organise coordinated actions, and produce policy briefs. Finally, to accelerate the wide spreading and uptake of results, an ambitious dissemination, exploitation, and communication strategy will be deployed at the EU and national levels. More information about the project.

Objectives

I4CE works on the rewarding mechanisms associated with low carbon practices, jointly with Climate KIC, Ecologic et ELO. More specifically, I4CE analyses the needs of the different stakeholders and challenges.

I4CE works on 3 delivrables :  

• A study on carbon neutrality guidelines, aimed at clarifying the notion of climate contributions for financiers and policy makers.
• A study on the issues related to double claiming between carbon credit buyers and the organisations downstream of the value chain. 
• A study on the articulation of rewarding mechanisms aimed at low carbon practices (carbon markets, price premiums in the value chain, etc.). 

Partners

The project involves over 80 partners. Find the full list here. 

Period

2022 – 2029