HORIZON-CL6-2026-01-BIODIV-06 – BOOSTING AGROBIODIVERSITY FOR FOOD SECURITY AND SUSTAINABLE COMPETITIVENESS

WHO WE ARE: Gazda Kontroll Ltd (Hungary) is a private agricultural advisory and innovation management company working with 300+ farms across Hungary, supporting the transition towards diversified, resilient and economically viable farming systems.

Our strength lies in combining real-world farm data, advisory systems and farmer-driven innovation, positioning us as a key multi-actor interface between farmers, researchers, value-chain actors and policy stakeholders

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WHY GAZDA KONTROLL IS A STRONG PARTNER FOR THIS CALL? : Gazda Kontroll can directly address the core challenge of the call: reducing the perceived and real risks of agrobiodiversity adoption while demonstrating economic, environmental and social benefits at farm level

We can contribute to all expected outcomes by:

• Delivering clear, practice-based demonstrations of agrobiodiversity benefits and trade-offs

• Supporting income-generating diversification strategies

• Strengthening farmers’ capacity to store, process and market diversified outputs

Our core expertise aligned with the call scope

• Agrobiodiversity & diversified cropping systems: Long-term advisory experience in crop rotation design, legume integration and mixed systems; Practical knowledge of non-conventional crops, protein crops and cover crops; Focus on soil biodiversity, nutrient cycling and resilience under climate stress

• Risk-aware farm diversification: Daily advisory work on economic feasibility, compliance and farm decision-making; Strong understanding of yield risks, management complexity and market uncertainty; Capacity to support cost–benefit assessments and labour/management evaluations

• On-farm demonstrations & data generation: Multi-location parcel- and farm-level demonstrations; Access to long-term environmental, agronomic and economic datasets; Hosting of field trials, pilot activities and farmer-to-farmer learning events

• Advisory systems & knowledge uptake: Embedded in national advisory networks; Proven ability to translate scientific outputs into actionable guidance; Experience with capacity building, training and advisory tool deployment

• Digital tools & decision support: Contribution to the development, testing and uptake of decision support tools;

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TYPICAL ROLES IN BIODIV-06 CONSORTIA: Gazda Kontroll is particularly suited to act as:

• Multi-actor implementation partner

• Farm-level demonstration and piloting lead

• Farmer engagement, co-creation and validation partner

• Risk, feasibility and behavioural analysis contributor

• Dissemination and practice uptake leader

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RELEVANT PROJECT EXPERIENCE

• Horizon Europe / H2020: RAMONES, AGRITECH, Climate Smart Advisors, I2Connect

• EIP-AGRI Operational Groups: Protein crops & legumes; Climate adaptation and diversified systems; Ecosystem services and innovative crops

• Erasmus+: advisory and rural competence development

Key contributions:

• Farmer mobilisation & co-creation

• Demonstration management

• Practice-oriented dissemination

• Innovation management & reporting

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Why Gazda Kontroll strengthens BIODIV-06 proposals

✔ Direct access to 300+ active farms

✔ Proven ability to reduce adoption risk through demonstration

✔ Strong link between agrobiodiversity and farm income

✔ Trusted intermediary for farmer–researcher–policy interaction

✔ High-quality practice-oriented communication

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Contact

Gazda Kontroll Ltd – Hungary

horizon@gazdakontroll.hu

+36202622474