Agroforestry at the forefront of farming sustainability in multifunctional landscapes in Europe (REFOREST)

该项目的主要任务是促进创新、知识交流，并提供新颖的解决方案，使欧洲及相关国家的农民能够实现粮食生产、碳捕获和生物多样性等多个目标。农林业是一种吉祥的土地利用类型，使农民能够继续生产粮食，同时显著提高其经营活动的环境可持续性。将树木纳入农业经营有助于提供大量生态系统服务，降低粮食生产对环境和社会的影响。过去的研究试图促进欧洲农林业的复兴，从而产生了相当大的知识基础和建模能力。在欧洲，农林业采用的最关键障碍与缺乏知识、植树对农场业务的影响以及农业和林业之间定位的政策支持不明确有关。我们将采用共同创造和多方参与的方法作为我们的基础研究方法，使农林业系统在农业生产力、社会经济可行性和可持续性之间取得适当平衡。我们将最大限度地利用现有知识和数据，利用在以往项目基础上建立的农林业生活实验室，并建立利益相关者和行动者参与平台，以实现知识转移、培训和创新。该项目将优先加强知识交流和转让，使碳和生物多样性融资融入农业商业模式，并提出有针对性的政策干预措施，作为克服农林业发展障碍的解决方案。

The primary mission of the project is to foster innovation, knowledge exchange and provide novel solutions to empower farmers in Europe and associated countries to deliver to multiple objectives: food production, carbon capture, and biodiversity. Agroforestry is an auspicious land use type, allowing farmers to continue producing food while significantly improving the environmental sustainability of their operations. Integration of trees into agricultural business contributes to a host of ecosystem services, lowering the environmental and social impact of food production. Past research has attempted to foster the renaissance of agroforestry in Europe, resulting in a sizeable knowledge base and modelling capability. The most critical barriersto agroforestry adoption in Europe relate to lack of knowledge, impact of tree planting on farm business, and unclear policy support positioned between agriculture and forestry. We will employ a co-creation and multi-actor approach as our fundamental research method to place agroforestry systems in the right balance of farm productivity, socio-economic viability and sustainability. We will maximise the use of existing knowledge and data, utilise agroforestry living labs built upon foundationslaid by previous projects, and establish a stakeholder and actor engagement platform to enable knowledge transfer, training and innovation. This project will prioritise enhancing knowledge exchange and transfer, enabling the integration of carbon and biodiversity finance in farm business models, and by proposing targeted policy interventions as solutions to overcoming barriers to agroforestry expansion.