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OrganicClimateNET Project
The OrganicClimateNET Project acts as a pioneer model for the European organic sector, helping farmers to integrate climate farming strategies, thereby enhancing their capacity to mitigate and adapt to climate change. The project will establish a network involving and supporting 250 organic farms to spearhead the integration of organic climate farming. Facilitated by trained advisors, farmers…
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GROW Observatory
The aim of the GROW project was to empower farmer and food-growing communities to improve the quality of soils using sensors, an app and satellite data.
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ReMIX Redesigning European cropping systems based on species MIXtures
The aim of the ReMIX project was to analyse and optimize the functioning of species mixtures, also called intercrops, in order to help design sustainable and diversified cropping systems for both conventional and organic agriculture
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LIFT Low-Input Farming and Territories – Integrating knowledge for improving ecosystem-based farming
The overall goal of LIFT was to identify potential benefits of the adoption of ecological farming in the European Union and to understand how socio-economic and policy factors impact the adoption, performance and sustainability of ecological farming at various scales, from farm- to regional level
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New technologies for reducing vineyard inputs and increasing viticulture sustainability – InVite
Located in Emilia, the InVite project investigates new technologies for reducing vineyard inputs and increasing viticulture resilience to climate change issues. In northwestern Italy, hillside non-irrigated vineyards are severely exposed to the impacts of drought and warming trends. In this context, the project team will test the efficacy of new water-retaining polymers (hydrogels) in preserving…
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RESCHEDULE: RESilient to Climate CHange Extremes MeDiterraneanAgricUltural Systems: LEveraging the Power of SoilHealth and Associated Microbiota
The main goal of RESCHEDULE is to develop science-based and locally-adapted solutions that improve the resilience of smallholder farms to climate change, with challenges including soil organic matter and nutrient depletion, desertification and erosion.
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SURFOLY: SUstainable Ruminants Feed with OLive pomace and polYphenols enriched charred olive stone
SURFOLY aims to demonstrate and promote an innovative circular business development model for the production of animal feed for small ruminants (sheep and goats) while supporting mixed crop-livestock systems and the olive industry in the Mediterranean area.
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CHANGE-UP – Innovative agroecological APProaches to achieving resilience to climate CHANGE in Mediterranean countries
The overall objective of the CHANGE-UP project is to design innovative farming systems for the Mediterranean area to build resilience to climate change, while ensuring food security and stable farmer income.
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VISCA – Vineyards Integrated Smart Climate Application
The overarching objective of VISCA is to facilitate increased climate resilience of wine production in the south of Europe, while minimizing costs to wine growers.
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SOILCARE – Soil care for profitable and sustainable crop production in Europe
The SOILCARE project developed the concept of soil-improving cropping systems (SICS) to advance the adoption of soil management while ensuring sustainability and profitability.