The Joint Programming Initiative on Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change (FACCE-JPI) brings together 22 countries* who are committed to building an integrated European Research Area addressing the interconnected challenges of sustainable agriculture, food security and impacts of climate change.
* see list of participants on EU website https://www.era-learn.eu/network-information/networks/facce-jpi
FACCE-JPI provides and steers research to support sustainable agricultural production and economic growth, to contribute to a European bio-based economy, while maintaining and restoring ecosystem services under current and future climate change.
It aims to do so with a strong transdisciplinary research base, encompassing economic and social aspects in addition to scientific ones, and with a creative approach towards the alignment of national programmes and the input of multiple actors and stakeholders.
The integrated FACCE-JPI strategic research agenda defines 5 core research themes:
These core research themes are gradually taken into account by national research agendas in view of aligning national programmes where much research is already undertaken, and inspire pilot joint actions on topics where research is lacking.
An implementation plan was launched in the Summer 2015, setting out short-term and mid-term priority actions to implement the FACCE-JPI strategic research agenda, in coherence with the Work-Programme of Horizon 2020.