DigitAF aims to boost the roll-out of agroforestry-based practices through the co-development of digital tools tailored to the needs and concerns of DigitAF target groups.
Key objectives of the project include:
- Supporting policy actors at regional, national and European level in designing efficient and effective policies to support agroforestry adoption and monitor their impact on biodiversity, climate change mitigation and agricultural sustainability
- Supporting farmers in designing and managing agroforestry systems in order to optimize agronomic, economic, social and environmental performance
- Enabling actors in agroforestry value chains to verify and market benefits, including enhanced biodiversity, carbon sequestration, soil health.
- Overcoming socio-technical barriers to a widespread implementation of agroforestry by setting up six living labs in Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Finland and the Czech Republic
- Providing researchers and software developers with FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable) open platforms in order to encourage data sharing and software interoperability and foster open science practices
- Convincing decision-makers that agroforestry is a concrete solution to improve agricultural sustainability and resilience to climate change open-source tools will be co-developed based on the existing practical knowledge, scientific evidence and models, tested with the end-users at living lab locations and improved based on their feedback. The DigitAF consortium and living labs partners span all agroforestry value chain actors, thus facilitating a broader dissemination of project results and outputs.
