ONE GREEN Τhe project

agroecological practices, systems and protocols to enhance the sustainability, productivity and resilience of cropping systems

Worldwide, farming systems have become highly vulnerable

mainly due to climate change that has converted formerly fertile soils and healthy environments to barren and unusable land, and to several disruptions across the agri-food value chain, which are the result of increases in energy and raw material prices.

In the last decades, the world has been confronted with a dramatic increase of plant invasions, market instabilities, ecosystem services and biodiversity loss, habitats degradation, human health problems as a side-effect of common agricultural practices and new food consumption patterns, and animal diseases.

ONE GREEN identifies that the health of humans, animals and the environment is deeply interconnected with the need of the growing global population for access to sufficient, healthy and safe food.

ONE GREEN aspires to create, implement and assess agroecological practices, systems and protocols, and to demonstrate, under real farm conditions, how the adoption of these strategies can strongly improve human and animal health, reduce the use of chemical pesticides, enhance sustainability, productivity, and resilience of cropping systems.

Following a multi-actor and participatory approach, ONE GREEN is a 24-month project that will develop a Greek Agroecological Network (GAN) that encompasses an ecosystem of 6 Living Labs (LLs), aiming to improve knowledge co-creation, farmers’ decision-making, and end-user acceptance of agroecological approaches, as well as food security.

ONE GREEN-proposed solutions will focus on:

digital solutions to assist the agroecological transition of society and crop production
empowering the role of humans in the agri-food chain
preserving animal health and enhancing biodiversity

The overall objective of ONE GREEN project is to make existing and new knowledge and data on agroecological practices easily findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable in a long-term knowledge through a virtual educational hub and a digital toolkit, with the aim to support the food security across the value chain from the Farm to the Fork, while caring for the environment, the humans and the animals.