Objetivos:
The European Farmers Adaptation to Climate Change (EFACC) project focuses on ruminant livestock (cattle, goats, sheep) in 6 European countries (France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Belgium and Greece), and aims to strengthen their capacity to adapt to climate change while having a positive impact on other environmental issues. The adaptation levers are already largely identified by the research work of the various partners, but an effort is needed to increase the transfer and application to livestock farming, by adapting the references to the local context, to the different sectors, and by facilitating the transfer between livestock farming players. To meet the challenges of transfer and local adaptation of practices, the project will rely on 36 multi-actor groups comprising 270 livestock farmers, 11 experimental farms, 31 agricultural establishments and 40 advisors. The role of the farmers will be to test and implement new practices to improve their resilience in the face of climate change, and to share their experiences widely including peer to peer exchanges and demonstrations. To feed these groups, experts and advisors will work together through a methodological framework shared at European level. Their aim will be to gather, consolidate, and adapt knowledge on the impact of climate change, advisory tools, adaptation solutions and their technical and economic impacts. The development of suitable tools, the integration of adaptation indicators into existing tools and a variety of dissemination and communication initiatives will enable 50,000 farms to deploy adaptation practices, as well as reaching over 3,500 advisors, 120 agricultural teachers and 7,440 agricultural students. Communications with local, national and European decision-makers will enable the project to take account of agricultural policy objectives and disseminate its results over the 7-year period to European agricultural stakeholders.
