DemocraTech (2021): Innovative services for democratizing data-driven technology innovations focused on sustainability practices for small farms
Climate change and environmental degradation result to an increasing pressure on farmers to adopt sustainable production approaches such as agroecology. At the same time, farmers are facing an increasing number of additional pressures, such as productivity pressures and skewed chain power that have a significant impact on their sustainability. Finally, there is a lack of appropriate Smart Farming tools for supporting the decision making of small producers that try to adopt agroecology and other sustainable practices. In line with EU’s Farm to Fork Strategy for a just and inclusive transition towards sustainable food production systems, the DemocraTech project aimed at democratizing Smart Farming (SF) innovations focused on sustainable production practices for small farms. The project focused on designing, providing and validating a set of DIH services for supporting small farmers in 2 Greek regions, Peloponnese and Attika, to reap the benefits of SF innovations. These services supported an Innovation Activity (IA) focused on developing a SF solution for agroecology practices for small farmers and a compost monitoring solution for organic compost. The establishment of an Agroecology Living Lab engaged the local actors in co-creation activities, supporting the live demonstration and experimentation with SF technologies. DemocraTech project, was funded under the SERVICE Open Call of the H2020 SmartAgriHubs project...