HORIZON-CL6-2024-FARM2FORK-01-1
Project title: Promoting policies, practices and stakeholder engagement for the integration of wildlife and animal husbandry into sustainable multifunctional landscapes in Europe.
Implementation period: 2025-2027
20 partners from 12 countries – Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden.
The project leader: Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences
Partners: Stiftelsen Norsk Institutt for Naturforskning (NINA), Adelphi Research Gemeinnutzige Gmbh, Leibniz-Zentrum füer Agrarlandschaftsforschung (ZALF), Institute of Applied Ecology (IEA), University of Turin (UNITO), Univerza V Ljubljani (UL), Kallisto Perivallontiki Organosi gia tin agria zoi kai fysi (CALLISTO), Cita Centro de Investigacion y Tecnologia Agroalimentaria de Aragón (CITA), Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE), Umea Universitet (UmU), Latvijas Valsts Mezzinatnes Instituts Silava (SILAVA), Pan instytut ochrony przyrody polskiej akademii nauk (IOP), European Landowners Organization (ELO), European Federation of Animal Husbandry (EAAP), Hushallningssallskapens Service Aktiebolag (HS), Skane hir skane ab (HIR), HS Vastra Hushållningssällskapet Västra, HS Jamtland Hushallningssallskapet i Jamtlands
The recovery of wild animal populations (large carnivores and large herbivores) has created many additional challenges for pastoralism, which is already under pressure due to several socio-economic factors.
These challenges include damage (depredation), additional costs, and many social conflicts. Some of the major obstacles in addressing these challenges are conflicts between stakeholders and challenging relevant knowledge.
The CoCo project will address these obstacles by adopting a multidisciplinary approach with a strong representation of the social sciences and a multi-stakeholder approach with broad stakeholder involvement that facilitates the co-creation of knowledge with high legitimacy. The project will use methods as diverse as systematic reviews, field inspections, face-to-face interviews, focus groups, questionnaires and modelling. The process will cover:
Implementation period: 2025-2027
20 partners from 12 countries – Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden.
The project leader: Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences
Partners: Stiftelsen Norsk Institutt for Naturforskning (NINA), Adelphi Research Gemeinnutzige Gmbh, Leibniz-Zentrum füer Agrarlandschaftsforschung (ZALF), Institute of Applied Ecology (IEA), University of Turin (UNITO), Univerza V Ljubljani (UL), Kallisto Perivallontiki Organosi gia tin agria zoi kai fysi (CALLISTO), Cita Centro de Investigacion y Tecnologia Agroalimentaria de Aragón (CITA), Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE), Umea Universitet (UmU), Latvijas Valsts Mezzinatnes Instituts Silava (SILAVA), Pan instytut ochrony przyrody polskiej akademii nauk (IOP), European Landowners Organization (ELO), European Federation of Animal Husbandry (EAAP), Hushallningssallskapens Service Aktiebolag (HS), Skane hir skane ab (HIR), HS Vastra Hushållningssällskapet Västra, HS Jamtland Hushallningssallskapet i Jamtlands
The recovery of wild animal populations (large carnivores and large herbivores) has created many additional challenges for pastoralism, which is already under pressure due to several socio-economic factors.
These challenges include damage (depredation), additional costs, and many social conflicts. Some of the major obstacles in addressing these challenges are conflicts between stakeholders and challenging relevant knowledge.
The CoCo project will address these obstacles by adopting a multidisciplinary approach with a strong representation of the social sciences and a multi-stakeholder approach with broad stakeholder involvement that facilitates the co-creation of knowledge with high legitimacy. The project will use methods as diverse as systematic reviews, field inspections, face-to-face interviews, focus groups, questionnaires and modelling. The process will cover:
(a) the relationship between animal husbandry practices and
(b) how to integrate wildlife management and pastoral management,
(c) the perceptions and values that different
(d) experience with different governance structures,
(e) the potential of new and emerging technologies in wildlife and pastoral management and monitoring, and
(f) a cost-benefit analysis of different pastoral and wildlife management scenarios.
The ambition of the project is to collect original quantitative data from at least at least 1,000 livestock farmers, 1,000 hunters and 1,000 landowners and qualitative data from 100 stakeholders deployed in a comparative manner in 12 countries.
The insights resulting from the reviews, analysis of new data and modelling will be integrated into a roadmap for coexistence, which will produce policy-relevant recommendations for better standardisation, harmonisation and integration of both pastoral and wildlife management systems. This will reduce conflict and ensure multifunctional landscapes for both herders and wildlife.
The insights resulting from the reviews, analysis of new data and modelling will be integrated into a roadmap for coexistence, which will produce policy-relevant recommendations for better standardisation, harmonisation and integration of both pastoral and wildlife management systems. This will reduce conflict and ensure multifunctional landscapes for both herders and wildlife.
In a few words, the project is about:
- pastoralism, animal production,
- human-wildlife conflicts,
- multifunctional landscapes,
- high Nature Value Agriculture.
