AgEnRes designs sustainable pathways for policymaking to reduce direct and indirect dependence of the agricultural sector on fossil fuels and fertilisers, and increase the resilience to volatile energy prices. Our approach consists of three components supported by outreach activities, which involve stakeholders and the public throughout the project's lifespan. The first component develops a conceptual and data framework to identify policy targets and measures, promising technologies, and data and model requirements. The second component focuses on evidence of the past and current energy dependence of the European agricultural sector and preferred solutions. The third component builds on the first two and incorporates them into a set of foresight models at farm, regional, and market levels to evaluate the impacts of innovations and policy measures and targets at different scales. Ultimately, AgEnRes develops an innovative toolbox that intends to decrease the energy dependence and strengthen the resilience of the European agricultural sector.
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