Horizon Europe - Work Programme 2023-2024 Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, 
                              Agriculture and Environment 
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                                  Horizon Europe
                            Work Programme 2023-2024
                     9. Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, 
                          Agriculture and Environment
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            Horizon Europe - Work Programme 2023-2024 Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, 
                        Agriculture and Environment 
        Introduction..............................................................................................................................13
        Destination – Biodiversity and ecosystem services..................................................................20
        Heading 1 – Understanding and addressing the main drivers of biodiversity loss...........21
         HORIZON-CL6-202X-BIODIV: Invasive alien species......................................................21
         HORIZON-CL6-202X-BIODIV: Plant pollinator networks and cascading effects in 
         ecosystems............................................................................................................................23
         HORIZON-CL6-202X-BIODIV: Chemical pollution and biodiversity...............................24
         HORIZON-CL6-202X-BIODIV: Impact of light and noise pollution on biodiversity........25
         HORIZON-CL6-2023-BIODIV: Interdisciplinary Assessment of Ecosystems Change, 
         Vulnerability and Response to Natural and Anthropogenic Pressures in Terrestrial and 
         Freshwater Ecosystems building on Earth and Environmental Observation........................26
        Heading 2 – Biodiversity protection and restoration...........................................................27
         HORIZON-CL6-202X-BIODIV: Digital for nature.............................................................27
         HORIZON-CL6-202X-BIODIV: Nature protection.............................................................29
         HORIZON-CL6-202X-BIODIV: Understanding and reducing bycatch of protected species
         ...............................................................................................................................................31
         HORIZON-CL6-2024-BIODIV: Restoration of deep-sea habitats......................................32
         HORIZON-CL6-2024-BIODIV: Demonstration of marine and coastal infrastructures as 
         hybrid blue-grey Nature-based Solutions.............................................................................34
        Heading 3 – Mainstreaming biodiversity in society and the economy...............................35
         HORIZON-CL6-202X-BIODIV: Dependence of society and the economy on pollinators.35
         HORIZON-CL6-2023-BIODIV: Improving higher education governance and skills 
         development for biodiversity and Nature-based Solutions...................................................36
         HORIZON-CL6-2024-BIODIV: Demonstrating Nature-based Solutions for the sustainable 
         management of water resources in a changing climate, to reduce the impacts of droughts.38
         HORIZON-CL6-2023-BIODIV: Biodiversity, economics and finance...............................39
         HORIZON-CL6-2023-BIODIV: Build up the knowledge on “Nature- Based Economy” 
         (NBE) and support its emergence and usage in the current economic approaches..............43
         HORIZON-CL6-2023-BIODIV: Biodiversity loss and enhancing ecosystem services in 
         urban and periurban areas.....................................................................................................44
         HORIZON-CL6-2024-BIODIV: Impact of digital transformation, and delivery of 
         governance tools and policy mixes for transformative action on biodiversity.....................46
         HORIZON-CL6-2023-BIODIV: Contribution to the reinforcement of science policy 
         support to better interconnected biodiversity and climate policies.......................................48
        Heading 4 – Biodiversity friendly practices in agriculture, forestry and aquaculture.....50
         HORIZON-CL6-2023-BIODIV: Conservation and use of genetic diversity for sustainable 
         agriculture: focus on crop wild relatives...............................................................................50
         HORIZON-CL6-2023-BIODIV: Biodiversity friendly practices in agriculture – breeding 
         for Integrated Pest Management (IPM)................................................................................51
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                        Agriculture and Environment 
         HORIZON-CL6-202X-BIODIV: Promoting pollinator friendly farming systems..............52
         HORIZON-CL6-2024-BIODIV: Promoting minor crops in farming systems.....................53
         HORIZON-CL6-2024-BIODIV: Reintroduction of landscape features in intensive 
         agricultural areas...................................................................................................................54
         HORIZON-CL6-2024-BIODIV: Maximising the synergies and minimising of trade-offs in 
         the conservation and protection of endangered carbon-rich and biodiversity-rich forest 
         ecosystems............................................................................................................................55
         HORIZON-CL6-20XX-BIODIV: Selective breeding programme for organic aquaculture.57
        Heading 5 – Interconnection of biodiversity research and policies....................................58
         HORIZON-CL6-2023-BIODIV: European Biodiversity Partnership: Biodiversa+ (second 
         instalment).............................................................................................................................58
        Heading 6 – Biodiversity and health.....................................................................................61
         HORIZON-CL6-2023-BIODIV: Prevention of zoonotic emerging diseases & biodiversity
         ...............................................................................................................................................61
        Destination – Fair, healthy and environment-friendly food systems from primary production 
        to consumption.........................................................................................................................64
        Heading 1 – Enabling sustainable farming systems.............................................................70
         HORIZON-CL6-2023-FARM2FORK: European partnership on accelerating farming 
         systems transition: agroecology living labs and research infrastructures.............................70
         HORIZON-CL6-2023-FARM2FORK: European partnership on animal health and welfare
         ...............................................................................................................................................72
         HORIZON-CL6-2023-FARM2FORK: Increasing the availability and use of harmless 
         inputs in organic farming......................................................................................................74
         HORIZON-CL6-2024-FARM2FORK: Improving yields in organic crop systems.............75
         HORIZON-CL6-2023-FARM2FORK: Valorisation of ecosystem services provided by 
         legume crops.........................................................................................................................77
         HORIZON-CL6-2024-FARM2FORK: Tools to increase the effectiveness of EU import 
         controls for plant health........................................................................................................78
         HORIZON-CL6-2024-FARM2FORK: Innovations in plant protection: alternatives to 
         reduce the use of pesticides focusing on candidates for substitution....................................80
         HORIZON-CL6-2024-FARM2FORK: Emerging and future risks to plant health..............81
         HORIZON-CL6-2023-FARM2FORK: Tackling outbreaks of plant pests...........................83
         HORIZON-CL6-2023-FARM2FORK: Animal welfare in transport and at slaughter (in 
         reserve, depending on partnership animal health and welfare)...........................................84
         HORIZON-CL6-2023-FARM2FORK: Enhancing animal welfare friendly non-caged 
         farming (in reserve, depending on partnership animal health and welfare)........................85
         HORIZON-CL6-2023-FARM2FORK Advancing vaccine development for African swine 
         fever (in reserve, depending on partnership animal health and welfare).............................86
         HORIZON-CL6-2024-FARM2FORK: Alternatives to traditional antimicrobial medicinal 
         products (in reserve, depending on partnership animal health and welfare).......................87
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                        Agriculture and Environment 
         HORIZON-CL6-2024-FARM2FORK: Animal nutritional requirements and nutritional 
         value of feed under different management conditions..........................................................88
         HORIZON-CL6-2024-FARM2FORK: Agro-pastoral/outdoor livestock systems and 
         wildlife management.............................................................................................................89
         HORIZON-CL6-2023-FARM2FORK: Towards sustainable livestock systems: European 
         platform for evidence building and transitioning policy.......................................................90
         HORIZON-CL6-2023-FARM2FORK: Exploring markets of agricultural inputs to support 
         farmers' decision-making......................................................................................................91
         HORIZON-CL6-2023-FARM2FORK: Investigating geographical indications (GIs) 
         contribution to sustainable development and optimising support for newly established 
         schemes.................................................................................................................................93
         HORIZON-CL6-2024-FARM2FORK: New business (and production) models improving 
         farmers’ position in value chains and enabling transition to sustainable agriculture............94
         HORIZON-CL6-2024-FARM2FORK: Sustainable organic food innovation labs: focus on 
         minimal, on-farm processing & circular value chains..........................................................95
        Heading 2 – Enabling sustainable fisheries and aquaculture.............................................97
         HORIZON-CL6-2024-FARM2FORK: Using species automatic recognition and artificial 
         intelligence to fight illegal fish discards and revolutionise fisheries control........................97
         HORIZON-CL6-2024-FARM2FORK: Minimising climate impact on fisheries: mitigation 
         and adaptation solutions for future climate regimes.............................................................99
         HORIZON-CL6-2024-FARM2FORK: Minimising climate impact on aquaculture: 
         mitigation and adaptation solutions for future climate regimes..........................................100
        Heading 3 – Transforming food systems for health, sustainability and inclusion..........102
         HORIZON-CL6-2023-FARM2FORK: European partnership on safe and sustainable food 
         systems for people, plant and climate.................................................................................102
         HORIZON-CL6-2023-FARM2FORK: Fostering resilient European food systems in a 
         changing world....................................................................................................................103
         HORIZON-CL6-2023-FARM2FORK: Eradicate micronutrient deficiencies in the EU...104
         HORIZON-CL6-2024-FARM2FORK: New healthy and sustainable food products and 
         processes.............................................................................................................................107
         HORIZON-CL6-2023-FARM2FORK: Traceability strategies and detection methods on 
         products derived from new genomic techniques to enable safe innovation in the food 
         system.................................................................................................................................108
         HORIZON-CL6-2023-FARM2FORK: Ensuring food safety by translating research and 
         innovation into practice.......................................................................................................111
         HORIZON-CL6-2024-FARM2FORK: Climate change and food safety: effects of climate 
         change on food safety hazards across food systems...........................................................112
         HORIZON-CL6-2024-FARM2FORK: Tackling food fraud by translating research and 
         innovation into practice.......................................................................................................114
         HORIZON-CL6-2024-FARM2FORK: Creating smart and attractive tools to enhance 
         healthy and sustainable diets at home.................................................................................115
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