STEP-UP | Sustainable Livestock Systems Transition and Evidence Platform for Upgrading Policies

STEP UP将生成清晰、明确和定量的信息，以支持环境友好型欧洲畜牧生产系统（ELPS）的更大可持续性、可行性和可持续性。通过最先进的研究方法和全面有效的利益相关者参与，STEP UP将提供一个措施平台，以支持欧洲政策制定者提供关于ELPS影响和外部性的科学证据，作为食品和更广泛生态系统的一部分。在对已发表的研究和政策文献进行全面的科学分析之后，将整理关于环境和政策支助的积极和消极影响及外部性的现有知识。将查明在不同的社会和环境背景下改善环境和职业教育方案可持续性方面的数据差距。将进行深入的个案研究分析，以协调现有数据，查明新数据收集和系统开发方面的不足和机会。将考虑到所有相关的价值链因素，制定新的指标，用于评估可持续的环境法和政策服务的外部性。将采用多行为体方法，确保为这些新指标（包括评价和影响）提供“现实生活”背景参考点和试验平台，然后采用最佳定量数据建模方法，在各种社会-生态-经济背景下对现有和创新的环境和学习政策系统进行全面影响评估和成本效益量化。将确定更加可持续和多样化的ELPS的过渡路径、预测场景（包括货币化影响）。将利用农业行动计划传播关于环境和植物保护系统作为粮食系统和更广泛的生态系统的一部分的循证知识。最后，STEP UP将提供一个独特和有保障的平台，以支持制定明智和客观的政策措施，以优化牲畜在满足欧洲和全球人口营养和社会需求方面的核心作用。

STEP UP will generate clear, unambiguous and quantitative information to support greater sustainability, viability and resilienceof environmentally friendly European Livestock Production Systems (ELPS). Through state-of-the-art research methodologies andthorough and effective stakeholder engagement, STEP UP will deliver a platform of measures to support European policy makers with science-based evidence on the impacts and externalities of ELPS, as part of the food and wider ecosystem. Existing knowledge on the positive and negative impacts and externalities of ELPS will be collated following a comprehensive science-based analysis of published research and policy literature. Data gaps towards improving the sustainability of ELPS across diverse social and environmental contextswill be identified. In-depth case-study analysis to harmonise existing data, identify deficits in, and opportunities for, new data collection and systems development will be carried out. New indicators for assessing the externalities of sustainable ELPS, considering all relevant value-chain factors will be developed. The multi-actor approach (MAA) will be invoked to ensure “real-life” contextual reference points and testbeds for these new indicators including evaluation and impact, followed by a comprehensive impact assessment and cost-benefit quantification of current and innovative ELPS under various socio-ecological-economic contexts, using best quantitative data modelling methods. Transition pathwaysfor more sustainable and diverse ELPS, forecastscenariosincluding monetizing impacts, will be identified. Evidence-based STEP UP knowledge of ELPS as part of the food system and wider ecosystem will be disseminated using MAA. Finally, STEP UP will provide a unique and warranted platform to support the development of informed and objective policy measures to optimise the central role of livestock in meeting the nutritional and societal needs of the European and global population.