In the face of global challenges, the living lab’s (LL) approach is gaining increasing attention in the agricultural sector worldwide. LLs bring together farmers, scientists, and other collaborators to co-create, test, and evaluate innovative practices and technologies to address the challenges affecting the agroecosystems. Given the rapid increase in the number of implementations of this approach, the Canadian Ministry of Agriculture and Agri-Food (AAFC) and France’s National Institute for Agriculture, Food, and the Environment (INRAE) recently co-hosted the first International Forum on Agroecosystem Livings (IF-ALL), marking the five years since the concept of agroecosystem LLs was first presented by Canada to the G20 Agriculture Ministers in 2018. The objective of this panel at COP28 is to share the IF-ALL’s results and promote the approach of living labs for building climate-resilient agroecosystems. 

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