Best agricultural practices for climate change: Integrating strategies for mitigation and adaptation (LIFE13 ENV/ES/000541)
This project aims contribute to the adaptation of field irrigation crops to climate change at the same time as mitigating the effects of this phenomenon.
The contribution is through the design and implementation of agronomic management systems based on the combined use of Best Managment Practices the effectiveness of which in the mitigation of climate change and the adaptation of crops to the effects thereof has been verified on an experimental level.
The management system will be implemented on a pilot scale on a demonstration farm and on small demonstration plots in the South of Spain, and on a global scale in a European Network of Demonstration Farms located in Portugal, Greece, Spain and Italy.We invite you to find out more about the project’s goals, the work to be carried out, the Network of Demonstration Farms on which the work is to take place and the results expected within the framework of the project.
General objectives
- To demonstrate the viability of management systems based on the integration of measures for the mitigation of climate change and the adaptation of irrigation crops thereto in the Mediterranean Basin.
- To verify the impact on a global scale of the combined mitigation-adaptation strategies adopted through the creation of a European Network of Demonstration Farms (ENDF).
- To establish an action protocol that, based on the mitigation-adaptation strategies identified, will allow technical recommendations to be given for the adoption thereof and allow the implementation thereof to be monitored, additionally serving to check the implementation of agro-environmental measures and other programmes in relation to climate change.
- To disseminate and transfer the experience gained and the management philosophy to other areas with similar characteristics, boosting the communication channels between research, administration and farmers and technicians,