Supporting Agroecological Transitions of Agroforestry Landscapes using an Innovative Transdisciplinary Assessment Framework

GRECO4CAST will co-design a standardized assessment framework for Living Lab (LL) innovations, that fosters a coherent, successful integration of agroecological principles in agroforestry landscapes characterized by perennial cropping systems, such as vineyards, olive- or fruit orchards, across European countries. In addition to the agroecological co-creation approach and the combination of woody-plant components, the novelty lies in the integration of process-based quantitative impact projection with stakeholder-based impact assessments, whereby the integration and stakeholder (SH) dialogue are supported with artificial intelligence (AI) and a digital round table (DRT). Our co-design approach involves SHs at farm and landscape level during all relevant steps of the assessment process, and it combines their inputs with the expertise of process-based modelers, landscape ecologists and planners, social scientists, economists, AI-scientists, etc.. This assessment framework allows for evaluating co-created transition pathways (scenarios).