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    Nostradamus: Harnessing Data Cubes and Multiple Sources of Data for Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security
    (2025-03-18)
    Varvaris, Ioannis
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    Hadjimitsis, Diofantos
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    Koumoulidis, Dimitrios
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    Polydorou, Thomaida
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    Mettas, Christodoulos
    Nostradamus focuses on addressing the critical challenges of food security, sustainability, and agricultural resilience in the European Union (EU) by leveraging digital solutions for resilient agriculture and independence from agrochemical inputs. This Horizon Europe project aligns with the EU Green Deal, Common Agricultural Policy, forthcoming Soil Monitoring Law, and EU Data Strategy, among others, promoting open-source data ecosystems and tools to enhance agricultural resilience and sustainability. Central to the project is developing a Data Ecosystem comprising five national Data Cubes spanning Cyprus, Germany, Serbia, Slovenia, and Switzerland and a Catalog for geospatial and non-geospatial datasets. Interconnectedly, the Data Ecosystem serves as a one-stop-shop for data aggregation by integrating Earth Observation, IoT, socio-economic, and other relevant datasets, establishing robust pipelines for collecting, processing, and analysing data from multiple sources. By providing farmers, policymakers, researchers, and industry with comprehensive, accessible, and interoperable digital solutions, the Nostradamus project will empower informed decision-making and policy-shaping to enhance the agricultural sector's competitiveness and productivity while minimizing environmental impact. The project’s overarching objectives are: (1) to serve as a data-driven backbone for the EU’s food security and independence, and (2) to enable the development of scalable, open-source digital applications through Open Calls tailored to address the complexities of modern agriculture. These applications will tackle pressing challenges such as drought monitoring, crop yield prediction, soil fertility management, and sustainable pest control. By employing machine learning, these tools support stakeholders in optimizing farming practices and resource allocation, reducing dependency on agrochemical inputs, and ensuring resilience against disruptions. Nostradamus adopts a gender-sensitive multi-actor approach, fostering collaboration among diverse stakeholders. This inclusive strategy ensures solutions are co-created and validated across various biogeographical and socio-economic contexts. The project’s five demonstration sites, located in the distinct biogeoclimatic regions, act as hubs for testing and showcasing innovations, enabling the transfer of knowledge and best practices across the EU. Recognizing the challenges posed by digital inequity, particularly in regions with limited connectivity, Nostradamus integrates cloud, edge, and mixed solutions to ensure accessibility and scalability. Additionally, the project provides a suite of ready-to-use templates that facilitate the seamless development and integration of modular digital applications for solving specific challenges while benefiting from standardized, interoperable foundations. Through tailored capacity-building, the project empowers end-users to utilize digital tools and fully adopt data-driven decision-making practices. The project also emphasizes the importance of data interoperability, switchability, and transparency, laying the foundation for the future evolution of agriculture in the EU. Beyond its technical contributions and support for EU policy frameworks and engaged actors, including AKIS platforms, Nostradamus actively supports upscaling the impact of ongoing EU projects by addressing critical gaps in data requirements and consolidation. By bridging technological innovation with stakeholder-driven development, Nostradamus represents a paradigm shift in the EU's agricultural digital transformation. Its outputs ensure that the sector remains resilient, competitive, and aligned with long-term sustainability goals. The project exemplifies how data-driven solutions can create a more secure, sustainable, and equitable future for the EU agricultural sector, setting a benchmark for global initiatives in agricultural innovation.
    Type:conference paper
    URI:https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/handle/20.500.14171/122684
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    LandShift: Co-Creating Living Spaces to Resolve Land-Use Conflicts for Climate-Resilient Landscapes
    (2025-03-18)
    Varvaris, Ioannis
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    Hadjimitsis, Diofantos
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    Mavrovouniotis, Michalis
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    Mamouri Rodanthi-elisavet
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    Neophytides, Stelios
    To work towards climate neutrality, the European Union (EU) has established a new target within the revised Regulation on land, land use change and forestry (LULUCF) aiming to achieve a net removal of 310 million tons of CO2 equivalent by 2030 through land-based actions. The LandShift project represents a transformative approach to land-use planning and management, addressing the complex challenges of climate change, biodiversity loss, and unsustainable practices in various terrestrial ecosystems, including forests, farmlands, peatlands, and wetlands. Aligning with the EU Green Deal, forthcoming Soil Monitoring Law, and New European Bauhaus (NEB) principles, among other initiatives, LandShift aims to achieve a climate-neutral land-use sector through the establishment of five interconnected Living Spaces (LSs) located in France, Greece, Italy, Poland, and Ukraine. These regions will serve as hubs for co-creation, innovation, and co-governance of sustainable solutions that integrate ecological, social, and economic dimensions. At its core, LandShift leverages digital technologies, including Earth Observation and Artificial Intelligence to optimize land-use strategies and enhance climate actions by providing actionable insights into carbon sequestration, ecosystem resilience, and biogenic emissions through a holistic approach. Additionally, the LandShift data ecosystem, built around five regional Data Cubes, acts as a comprehensive resource for stakeholders, offering harmonized data to support informed decision-making. By integrating the Living Earth framework and Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis, LandShift systematically evaluates trade-offs among climate mitigation, food and biomass production, biodiversity conservation, and socio-economic objectives. The project’s innovative approach integrates Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) with NEB principles, emphasizing aesthetic value, inclusivity, and sustainability to facilitate the operationalization of regional strategies. Through workshops, co-creation activities, and a digital library of NEB-aligned NBS, LandShift promotes practices that enhance ecological balance while effectively bridging the gap between top-down policies and on-the-ground realities. LandShift also addresses the urgent need for robust monitoring, reporting, and verification frameworks, which offer the capacity to measure the impact of implemented solutions while integrating environmental considerations with financial incentives, such as Environmental Impact Bonds. A distinguishing feature of LandShift is its emphasis on inclusive collaboration among all key stakeholders from the Quintuple Innovation Helix framework through a multi-actor approach. Policy and Community Labs will facilitate co-design processes, ensuring that solutions are context-specific and aligned with the unique needs and priorities of each LS while fostering co-ownership through crowd-sourcing and crowd-funding mechanisms. The project also examines dietary preferences while implementing efforts to transform Data Cubes and Living Earths into Knowledge Cubes. Tailored capacity-building further empower stakeholders to adopt and co-implement these solutions effectively, ensuring that the LSs become Lighthouses of regionally socio-economic and environmentally responsible strategies for achieving a climate-neutral land-use sector. LandShift integrates with over 15 EU strategies, leveraging synergies with complementary programs to enhance scalability, promote transdisciplinary collaboration, and strengthen contributions to overarching EU objectives. Its holistic, data-driven approach establishes a benchmark for sustainable land management, offering replicable and scalable solutions across Europe. By bridging the gap between policy and practice, LandShift envisions resilient, sustainable, and inclusive landscapes, transforming land-use planning and management to deliver enduring benefits for communities and ecosystems.
    Type:conference paper
    URI:https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/handle/20.500.14171/122683
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    AfroGrow: Co-Creating Living Labs for Sustainable Agroforestry and Climate Resilience Across Africa
    (2025-03-18)
    Varvaris, Ioannis
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    Hadjimitsis, Diofantos
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    Mavrovouniotis, Michalis
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    Stavrinides, Menelaos
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    Neophytides, Stelios
    Africa, while contributing minimally to global greenhouse gas emissions, disproportionately bears the burden of climate change impacts, including declining agricultural productivity, threats to food and water security, and biodiversity loss. Agroforestry offers a holistic solution to these challenges, providing ecological, economic, and social benefits. However, the implications of agroforestry for planetary health, societal well-being, and ecological stability remain underexplored. To address the interconnected challenges of climate change, land degradation, and socio-economic inequalities, AfroGrow promotes sustainable agroforestry systems across the African Union (AU) by establishing six interconnected Living Labs (LLs) in Botswana, Côte d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, Kenya, Senegal, and Zambia. These LLs serve as dynamic, real-world co-creation environments that foster innovation, facilitate knowledge exchange, and promote stakeholder collaboration, unlocking the potential of agroforestry to enhance climate resilience, improve livelihoods, and support ecosystem health. AfroGrow integrates traditional knowledge with innovative agroforestry management practices, ensuring that solutions are tailored to local communities' needs and priorities. The project adopts a multidimensional, multi-actor approach to agroforestry challenges by fostering collaboration among all key stakeholders from the Quintuple Innovation Helix framework. These efforts are guided by a gender-sensitive strategy, ensuring that decision-making processes actively address inequalities and promote social innovation. Socio-ecological experiments, carbon farming business models, and establishing an AU Agroforestry Hub envisioned as a centralized platform for knowledge exchange and strategic coordination, are central to the project's vision. In addition, AfroGrow advances an existing e-learning platform tailored to local contexts, empowering communities with accessible training resources and fostering capacity-building. AfroGrow also tackles barriers to agroforestry adoption, such as resource limitations and policy constraints, by engaging stakeholders through participatory workshops, surveys, and co-creation activities. Complementary to these, the project emphasizes communication strategies incorporating local languages, customs, and contexts, ensuring effective dissemination and communication. The project develops comprehensive databases cataloging plant species, animal breeds, and agroforestry practices adapted to specific local contexts. These databases are complemented by dynamic regional suitability maps, which identify optimal locations for specific plant and animal species based on soil, climate, and biodiversity conditions. By aligning community-driven needs with market demands while considering ecological, cultural, and socio-economic contexts, the project advances ecologically sustainable and economically viable agroforestry systems. In addition, AfroGrow emphasizes the long-term impact of the established LLs, ensuring they serve as hubs for innovation, collaboration, and knowledge dissemination. Robust monitoring frameworks and digital tools further amplify AfroGrow’s impact by assessing the effects of agroforestry systems, sustainable land management, and carbon farming practices on ecosystem services, biodiversity, and human well-being. Consequently, these solutions contribute to adaptive management strategies that enhance resilience to climate change and align with Africa’s socio-economic priorities, ensuring that the outcomes of AfroGrow’s LLs are sustainable and scalable over time. AfroGrow aims to transform Africa's agroforestry sector by co-creating scalable, sustainable solutions with local communities and integrating them into policy frameworks. The project enhances climate resilience while setting a global standard for agroforestry through innovation, collaboration, and inclusivity. AfroGrow ensures its long-term impact and scalability in addressing environmental and social challenges by fostering enduring Africa-EU partnerships and knowledge exchange.
    Type:conference paper
    URI:https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/handle/20.500.14171/122682
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    Sociologie des prix : Fabien Éloire and Jean Finez, 2021
    (2022)
    Chabosseau, Tom  
    Type:book review
    Journal:Economic Sociology: the European Electronic Newsletter
    URI:https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/handle/20.500.14171/122791
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