Projet LegumeLegacy (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Doctoral Networks
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

With the European Green Deal, the EU has committed to transition to carbon-neutral and sustainable systems of agriculture. LegumeLegacy aims to adapt existing mixed or ruminant based production systems, using state of the art knowledge from ecology, agronomy, statistics and other fields to minimize greenhouse gas emissions, nutrient inputs and leaching (and costs), while increasing carbon stocks, biodiversity and yield stability. To achieve this, an exceptional and distinctive strategy of LegumeLegacy includes a common experiment across multiple LegumeLegacy sites; 10 Doctoral Researchers (DRs; two funded by the Swiss Government) will collaborate on the common experiment and have their own distinctive and complementary research objectives. To develop a model system of crop rotation, in the common experiment grassland plots of varying diversity of six species (two grasses, two legumes, two herbs, selected for complementary functional traits) will be established as a grassland ley, grown, and terminated; the grassland leys will be followed by a wheat crop. The effect of the diversity of the grassland ley on the performance of the crop rotation will be evaluated by measurement of yield, quality and environmental performance. LegumeLegacy will recommend the design of grassland leys within crop rotations that optimise agronomic and environmental performance; the multi-site experiment will generalise the conclusion and its implementation potential across Europe. LegumeLegacy will train a cohort of 10 DRs into a new generation of future leaders who will have the capacity to develop and deploy interdisciplinary and data-driven sustainable practices in the agricultural sector. With a training programme that includes statistics, specialised research skills, targeted transferable skills and scientific co-operation within a global network, this cohort of future leaders will be equipped with professional skills for a range of associated disciplines in industry or academia.

Mots clés : crop rotation species interactions legacy effect multispecies mixtures grasslands leys nitrogen sustainability sustainable agriculture grasses legumes herbs

Participants :
- Université d'Aarhus (Danemark) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 603576.0 €
- Université des sciences de la vie de Poznań (Pologne) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 226512.0 €
- Agriculture and agri-food canada (Canada) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes publics (hors enseignement & recherche), subvention : 0.0 €
- Teagasc (Irlande) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 286488.0 €
- Danko Hodowla Roślin (Poland) (Pologne) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Département fédéral de l'économie, de la formation et de la recherche (Suisse) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes publics (hors enseignement & recherche), subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Hohenheim (Allemagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 260539.2 €
- Goldcrop limited (Irlande) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Wageningen University & Research (Pays-Bas) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Trinity College (Irlande) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 572976.0 €
- Université de Reading (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- École polytechnique fédérale de Zurich (Suisse) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Cotswold seeds limited (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Louis Bolk Instituut (Pays-Bas) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 274370.4 €