WP1 leader: JRC
WP1 objectives:
1.1. Provide a typology of farms adopting ecological practices that is functional for use within the LIFT project and beyond.
1.2. Collect stakeholders’ views on farm typology categories to help inform the typology development process.
1.3. Identify existing and potential sources of data at farm level (secondary and primary data) for applying the typology.
1.4. Develop a ‘typology-tool’.
WP1 short description:
The main aim of WP1 is to set the reference frame for farm typologies to be used in the LIFT project and to develop a user-friendly tool. The WP will cover definitions, data and thresholds, and will address the entire range from the most conventional to the most ecological farming along several axes. A diversity of production sectors and strategies will be considered.
Recommendations will be drawn regarding the need for additional information to ensure that existing data sets enable to identify and represent farms implementing ecological approaches within the wider range of farm typologies. A ‘typology-tool’ will also be developed, to allow users assigning a farm to a typology depending on the level of incorporation of ecological approaches into the management system of each farm.