The document discusses the ClimSmartAgri project which aims to develop climate resilient crop cultivars and climate smart farming systems through an integrated, interdisciplinary approach. The project brings together excellent scientists from various fields including agronomy, soil science, physiology, genetics, breeding, agro-ecosystem modeling, and agro-economics. It will use long-term field trial data, agricultural modeling, and iterations with stakeholders to optimize interactions between genotype, management practices, and the environment to design ideal crop types and farming systems that are productive, adaptive, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The workshop aims to initiate interdisciplinary discussions on how to achieve these goals of the project.

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ClimSmartAgri project and aims
of the workshop
Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke),
FI-00790 Helsinki, Finland
Fulu Tao, Taru Palosuo, Panu Korhonen （Agro-ecosystem modeling ）
Pirjo Peltonen-Sainio, Ari Rajala, Kaija Hakala, Lauri Jauhiainen (Agronomy)
Tapio Salo, Elene Valkama (Soil)
Heikki Lehtonen, Xing Liu (Agro-economy)
Perttu Virkajärvi (Physiology)
Alan Schulman (Genetics)

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National mean Yield
Genetic yield potential
MTT trials yield mean
Peltonen-Sainio et al., 2009
Introduction
IPCC, 2014
Yield has become stagnating since 1995 in Finland
Greenhouse gas emissions, EU-28, 2012
Agriculture is facing challenges

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Need
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The problem is how to do ?
 Traditional breeding, field trial and empirical approaches are not
enough any more, particularly for future planning!
 Breeders: cultivars ?
 Agronomists and farmers: how to manage farming system ?
Developing climate smart agriculture
Three objectives of CSA:
 Sustainably increasing
agricultural productivity;
 Adapting and building
resilience to climate change;
 Reduce GHG emissions
from agriculture;
 Not always ‘triple-win’
CSA identifies synergies
and trade-offs among food
security, adaptation and
mitigation

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Approach
 Excellent scientists + a large amount of field trial data !
 Collaboration is surprisingly rare, despite possible synergies are huge !
An Integrated model-based framework
Agronomy, soil,
Agro-economy
Physiology,
genetics and
breeding
Agro-system
modelling
Climate smart
farming system
Cultivar Ideotype
& advanced
breeding
Ideotype
Desirable Traits
& Genes
This cann’t be reached by traditional approaches!

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Approach
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WP1: Integrating interdisciplinary data and knowledge, empirical analyses
The long-term field trial data and interdisciplinary knowledge
Analysed to diagnose the status and problems of the current farming systems.
The knowledge-based optimal agronomic management practices
WP2: Developing a model-based framework to design crop cultivar
ideotypes and climate smart farming systems
Multi-disciplinary knowledge data, agricultural system modelling,
Optimizing the interactions between Genotype(G) × Management(M) ×
Environment(E) through agricultural system modelling.
WP3: Conducting field trials, interactions with stakeholders and evaluations
Conducting field trials
Iterations of generating results among multi-disciplinary experts and
stakeholders
ClimSmartAgri Project

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Aims of this workshop
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 Initiate interdisciplinary discussions on how to develop climate
resilient crop cultivars and climate smart farming system
 Gathering the interdisciplinary information, knowledge and
approaches for building CSA (Agronomist, soil scientists,
physiologist, geneticist, breeders, agro-economist, agro-ecosystem
modeler)
Identifying the barriers, and means to overcome these barriers
Survey the collaborations, resources and data available to set up a
model-based framework for CSA

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Program
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