CARinata and CamelINA to boost the sustainable diversification in EU farming

加勒比区域信息网是建立在一个多行为体联合体和参与性决策进程的基础上，通过相互学习、透明沟通、包容性的多视角和跨学科参与。从提案中可以清楚地看出社会创新作为整个项目发展的神经中枢的重要性。将在欧洲建立9个灯塔、5个生活实验室和9个政策创新实验室，在共同创建CARINA创新行动中发挥主导作用。CARINA专注于新的可持续和多样化的农业系统，包括两种新的油料作物，carinata和camelina，能够为生物经济提供多种低iLUC的原料。我们坚信，参与性方法对于成功扩大创新农业系统是必要的。在具体的环境、技术和社会条件下，让农民和其他利益攸关方参与共同开发解决方案，这在CARINA中得到了高度重视。我们估计，由于与合作伙伴的直接合作，CARINA可能会接触到约300万农民。为了在初级生产者中达成广泛共识，新作物应能够促进和利用生物多样性，易于种植，在当前的种植系统中技术上可行。Carinata和Camelina完全符合这些要求，能够成功地在欧洲和北方非洲的几乎所有地方生长。Carinata和Camelina提供高品质的油，将转化为创新的生物基产品（生物除草剂，生物塑料）。油提取的副产品是富含蛋白质的饼状物，其将作为动物饲料和多种高附加值产品进行增值，利用其中所含的粘液和芥子油苷。CARINA利用了来自13个欧盟和联系国（意大利、法国、西班牙、德国、希腊、斯洛伐克、保加利亚、波兰、英国、塞尔维亚、突尼斯、摩洛哥、瑞士）的20个合作伙伴和6个附属实体组成的经验丰富的团队。

CARINA is built on a multi-actor consortium and participative decision-making process through mutual learning, transparent communication, and inclusive multi-perspectives and transdisciplinary engagement. From the proposal clearly emerges the importance of social innovation as the nerve center for the evolution of the whole project. Nine Lighthouses, 5 Living Labs, and 9 Policy Innovation Labs will be established across Europe playing a leading role in the co-creation of CARINA innovation actions. CARINA focuses on new sustainable and diversified farming systems including 2 new oilseed crops, carinata and camelina, able to provide multiple low iLUC feedstocks for the bio-based economy. We firmly believe that a participatory approach is necessary for successfully scaling-up innovative farming systems. Engaging farmers and other stakeholders in jointly developing solutions under specific environmental, technical, and social conditions has been highly considered in CARINA. We estimate about 3M farmers being potentially reached by CARINA thanks to the direct cooperation with its partners. To find a broad consensus by primary producers, a new crop should enable to promote and harness biodiversity, be easy-to-grow, and technically feasible within current cropping systems. Carinata and camelina fully meet these requirements, able to successfully grow almost everywhere in Europe and in northern Africa. Carinata and camelina provide high quality oils that will be transformed into innovative bio-based products (bioherbicides, bioplastics). The co-product from oil extraction is a protein-rich cake, which will be valorized as animal feed, and in a multitude of high added-value products, exploiting the mucilage and glucosinolates contained within. CARINA capitalizes on a highly experienced team of 20 partners, +6 affiliated entities, from 13 EU and Associated Countries (Italy, France, Spain, Germany, Greece, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Poland, UK, Serbia, Tunisia, Morocco, Switzerland).