GUARDIANS will help small and medium-sized farms to bridge the current technological gap with bigger farms through the implementation of a set of digital innovative solutions. Integrating state-of-the-art technologies in their everyday routine, small farms’ business will be more productive and resilient and not doomed to close in the near future.
GUARDIANS’ digital solutions will be tested in four countries with a wide range of environmental, climatic, and socio-economic conditions: Spain, Italy, Sweden, and Czechia. GUARDIANS’ digital solutions cover 11 use cases, considering both crops and livestock, and will be initially refined in 4 testbeds, to be later implemented in 6 pilots, for a total of 21 farms and farm structures. Later, two calls for replicators will bring the number of farms to 95.
To bridge the technological gap between large producers and smaller farms, GUARDIANS has designed a strategy with 6 main objectives:
GUARDIANS’ digital solutions are innovative because they are tailored to the needs of small- and medium-sized farms to be cost-effective, accessible, and human-centric. GUARDIANS will support and empower the penetration, sustainability, and resilience of those sustainable agroecological farming models and practices that do not get enough recognition, like regenerative agriculture, natural grazing, alternative managed grazing strategies, and pollinators’ promotion.