Digital solutions to foster climate-smart agricultural transition (Digi4CSA)

Description of the granted funding

Agriculture is a notable greenhouse gas (GHG) emitter. The European Union has set ambitious emissions reduction goals for this sector. Attempts to improve agriculture's resilience to climate change and reduce its climate impact are often referred to as climate-smart agriculture (CSA). Despite an impressive start, CSA initiatives remain far from being the industry standard. Digi4CSA will create a digital platform that integrates relevant data streams on CSA farms to facilitate agricultural stakeholders' decision-making and enable novel business models and market exchanges to foster scaling up CSA initiatives. Digi4CSA will build novel ways of accounting that will holistically capture the climate and other impacts of CSA as it grows in scale. Digi4CSA has an extensive partner network, including Carbon Action, ACCC Flagship, worldwide PEcAn project and Ecological Forecast Initiative, science collaborators, and major companies and foundations working in the food and retail sector.
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Starting year

2023

End year

2025

Granted funding





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318 310 €

Role in consortium of the Academy of Finland

Partner

Other consortium parties

Partner
University of Helsinki (353074)
275 000 €
Partner
University of Helsinki (353075)
434 999 €
Leader
Finnish Meteorological Institute (353073)
519 550 €
Partner
Häme University of Applied Sciences (353076)
417 721 €

Funder

Research Council of Finland

Funding instrument

Targeted Academy projects

Decision maker

Suomen akatemian muu päättäjä
13.12.2022

Other information

Funding decision number

353077

Fields of science

Other social sciences

Research fields

Yhteiskuntatieteellinen ympäristötutkimus

Themes

RRF Vihreän ja digitaalisen siirtymän avainalat (P3C3I2)

Identified topics

agriculture, farming