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AARHUS UNIVERSITY SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ST Dekanat Indspil til tema til FORSK2025 fra Institut for Agroøkologi 1. Resumé AGRO Foulum Title: Climate Smart Agri-Food Systems The proposal addresses the interactions between climate change and agricultural production. The aim is to reduce carbon footprints and develop food and biomass production systems under climate change and climatic variability, in a context where population and economic growth act as major drivers. Torsten Rødel Berg PhD, Senior Research Internationalization Adviser Date: 14 April 2016 Direct Tel.: +45 87154786 Pager: +45 E-mail: [email protected] 2. Samfundsudfordringer og/eller muligheder Sender's CVR no .: 31119103 Agricultural production is closely linked to global challenges on population growth and economic growth, as these drivers increase demand for food, feed and other bio-based products. OECD (2013) estimates that demand for food will increase 60% by 2050 compared to the present demand. Agriculture is currently estimated to contribute 25% of global greenhouse gas emissions, but is also source of several other sources of environmental degradation (e.g. nutrient leakage and water overuse) as well as a threat to biodiversity. At the same time, climate change and increases in climatic variability and extremes cause considerable challenges for current agricultural production systems across the globe. Against this background, there is a need for research on the following: Page 1/4 Forskningsbehov Development and testing of specific technologies for reducing agricultural greenhouse gas emissions from soils, crops, livestock and manure management while enhancing the productivity of the respective systems. Improved understanding of the effects of climatic variability and climatic extremes on the functioning of agricultural systems (crops, soils and livestock), including the impacts on abiotic and biotic stressors and how these can be better managed. Staff, AGRO Foulum Aarhus University Blichers Allé 20 PO box 50 DK-8830 Tjele Denmark Tel.: +45 8715 6000 Fax: +45 87152068 E-mail: [email protected] agro.au.dk/en/ AARHUS UNIVERSITY SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Development of new biomass production systems that target a range of different concerns in terms of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, enhancing resource use efficiency, maintaining soil fertility and providing high production of biomass at target quality for biorefining. Development and testing of agricultural systems that enhance tolerance and resilience to climatic variability and extremes. E.g. through cropping systems with improved soils that enable better water use and nutrient cycling, crops and varieties with higher tolerance to extremes and stressors, and farming systems with better integration between different plant species and livestock, and which consider both technological and social aspects of the production systems. Develop methods for ascertaining the baseline for soil organic carbon in quantitative terms as well as in terms of quality and variability in space and time across scales, landscapes and management systems Improved understanding of the potential effects of climate change on the prevalence and significance of weeds, diseases and pests, including new invasive species Development of sustainability concepts, with a focus on reducing greenhouse gas emissions in biomass production and utilization for food, feed and other purposes, which include concerns for adaptation to increased climatic variability and extremes. Methods for assessing the climate and environment impacts of different production systems in the bioeconomy which integrates the interlinkages of effects across scales, e.g. the integration of direct and indirect land use change in estimation of sustainability and greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture and biomass production systems. New governance principles for reducing greenhouse gas emissions at farm and food chain scales that also incentivize innovations for cost-effective emissions reductions and which make use of new technologies for monitoring the production processes. 3. Forhold vedrørende udmøntning og implementering af forskningsindsatsen As recognized in the Standing Committee on Agricultural Research (SCAR) Foresight 2015, climate change is a main driver for the bioeconomy and food production on a global scale. Individual countries affected by climate change cannot solve challenges at national levels owing to the connectedness of production, consumption and resource access across national borders. Addressing the research challenges will contribute to reducing the economic and the social costs of climate change and of energy transition. This is in line with the ambitions of COP21, as well as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Page 2/4 AARHUS UNIVERSITY SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 4. Danske forudsætninger Over the past couple of decades, agricultural research in Denmark has increasingly carried out research into interactions between climate and agricultural production. Within a bio-economy framework, current research foci are on reduction of carbon footprints, adaptation to and mitigation of climate change and enhancing resilience to climatic variability and extremes. This includes specific measures and technologies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but also changes in production systems that provide sufficient food, bioenergy and biomaterials with enhanced resource use efficiencies while reducing greenhouse gas emissions and nutrient leakages, enhancing soil carbon storage and preventing crop losses through biotic and abiotic stresses. Research strengths include a strong culture of multidisciplinary agricultural research where detailed process understanding is linked with studies at farm, field and landscape scales and which provides input for modelling and quantifying aggregate climate and environment footprints associated with the production of food, feed and bio-based products. The focus on climate and agri-food systems has contributed to Danish agricultural research becoming globally renowned. In light of climate change and a global need for green transition, as expressed in, for instance, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), there is a strong demand for research that enables agroecological principles to be put into practice and which safeguards food security. 5. Mål, effekt og perspektiver The objectives of the proposed research is (i) to reduce the carbon footprint and environmental effects of food production; (ii) adapt food production to changing climate conditions, and; (iii) increase the sustainable production of biomass for the bioeconomy. Climate change is a global challenge and in some cases a major threat to food production, and if not addressed in the context of energy, food and climate nexus thinking, it may compromise current agri-food systems in Denmark, Europe and globally. The environmental challenges associated with increased demand for food, feed, and energy in the context of climate change are likely to be less in Northern Europe (where society’s capacity to adapt by means of e.g. sustainable intensification measures is high), than in, for instance, dry subtropical regions (IPCC 2014). However, shifts in agricultural production areas across the world, along with estimations that the world’s poorest regions are likely to be the most affected by climate change (IPCC 2014), are factors that may lead to upheavals with respect to food security, migration and geopolitics (DASTI/OECD 2016). While this lends a sense of urgency to the research area in general, these circumstances will also affect Denmark. In this light, it is imperative that Danish research within the area of climate, environment and agricultural production continues to address key global challenges and to increasingly invest in international research collaboration. Page 3/4 AARHUS UNIVERSITY SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Page 4/4 6. Kontaktperson Torsten Rødel Berg. [email protected]. Tel 24858115 7. Forslagets prioritering n.a. Bibliography: OECD 2013: Global Food Security: Challenges for the Food and Agricultural System. OECD Publishing, Paris. European Commission 2015: Sustainable Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries in the Bioeconomy. 4th SCAR Foresight Exercise. Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation/OECD 2016: An OECD Horizon Scan of Megatrends and Technology Trends in the Context of Future Research Policy. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2014: Climate Change 2014: Synthesis Report