Diversification of cropping systems as well as reducing the use of agrochemicals and enhancing landscape complexity have the potential to increase biodiversity at the field and landscape scale and support human health. The overall goal of DCrops4OneHealth are to elucidate cause-effect relationships between agrobiodiversity and human health, derive recommendations, and exemplarily implement them in practice. DCropS4OneHealth project pursues a One Health approach and aims to test the following hypotheses along a causal chain in the area of agrobiodiversity:
- Diversification in cropping systems increases farm biodiversity in terms of soil and plant microbiome, vegetation and invertebrate fauna.
- The higher diversity of cultivated crops, soil and plant microbiome, vegetation and invertebrate fauna positively affects health-relevant characteristics of the field produce in terms of the produce microbiome and health-promoting plant secondary metabolites.
- These improved characteristics foster human health.
The subproject Diet and human health provides the link between increased agrobiodiversity and human health by investigating to what extent specific/improved food characteristics could have an impact on human health.
Duration
01.08.2024 – 31.07.2027
Funding Agency
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF)
Funding Call
Biodiversität und Gesundheit
Consortium Partners
- Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering and Bioeconomy (ATB) – Project Lead
- Teaching and Research Station for Ani-mal Breeding and Husbandry (LVAT)
- University of Potsdam (UP)
- Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry (IPB)
- European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)
Contact
Amanda Wendt
Anna Müller-Hauser
Shafinaz Sobhan
