SWUP-MED
Sustainable water use securing food production in dry areas of the Mediterranean region
| Coordinatore | KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET
Organization address
postcode: 1017 contact info |
| Nazionalità Coordinatore | Denmark [DK] |
| Sito del progetto | http://swup-med.dk/ |
| Totale costo | 3˙992˙766 € |
| EC contributo | 2˙728˙104 € |
| Programma | FP7-KBBE
Specific Programme "Cooperation": Food, Agriculture and Biotechnology |
| Code Call | FP7-KBBE-2007-1 |
| Funding Scheme | CP-SICA |
| Anno di inizio | 2008 |
| Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) | 2008-07-01 - 2013-06-30 |
Partecipanti
| # | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET | DK | coordinator | 0.00 |
| 2 |
CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT FOR THE ARAB REGION AND EUROPE
Organization address
address: ELHEGAZ ST 2 CEDARE BLDG HELIOPOLIS contact info |
EG (CAIRO) | participant | 0.00 |
| 3 |
CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE
Organization address
address: Piazzale Aldo Moro 7 contact info |
IT (ROMA) | participant | 0.00 |
| 4 |
INSTITUT AGRONOMIQUE ET VETERINAIRE HASSAN II
Organization address
address: AVENUE ALLAL EL FASSI MADINAT AL contact info |
MA (RABAT) | participant | 0.00 |
| 5 |
INSTITUTO DE TECNOLOGIA QUIMICA E BIOLOGICA - UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA
Organization address
address: "Avenida da Republica, Estacao Agronomica Nacional" contact info |
PT (OEIRAS) | participant | 0.00 |
| 6 |
INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH IN THE DRY AREAS
Organization address
address: Highway Tel hadya contact info |
SY (ALEPPO) | participant | 0.00 |
| 7 |
NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL
Organization address
address: Polaris House, North Star Avenue contact info |
UK (SWINDON WILTSHIRE) | participant | 0.00 |
| 8 |
THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA
Organization address
address: Stirling Higway 35 contact info |
AU (CRAWLEY) | participant | 0.00 |
| 9 |
UNIVERSITY OF CUKUROVA
Organization address
address: . contact info |
TR (ADANA) | participant | 0.00 |
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Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)
'The strategic objective of the project is to improve food crop production in the Mediterranean region, influenced by multiple abiotic stresses. These stresses are becoming even more pronounced under changing climate, predicted to result in drier conditions, increasing temperatures, and greater variability, causing desertification. The project will work mainly in farmers’ communities to improve farming systems, by strengthening a diversified crop rotation and using marginal-quality water for supplemental irrigation, aiming at: • Introduce and test new climate-proof crops and cultivars with improved stress tolerance, selecting promising varieties of cereals, grain legumes and new crops. Climate-proof traits will be identified for breeding programmes using advanced physiological and biochemical screening tools. Supplemental irrigation will be performed as deficit irrigation by different sources of water. • Investigate the sustainable field applicability of the farming systems, such as environmental effects related to irrigation water quality assessed by monitoring groundwater and soil quality. Financial implications for the farmer and economic costs and benefits in the food sector will be analysed. • Develop a research synthesis in dialogue with food sector, based on experimental results and advanced simulation modelling to improve farming systems management, utilizing dynamic tools that ease adaptation to the effects of a variable and changing climate. The approach is participatory, involving the farmer’s community and the market and political level. The expected outcome is improved productivity and sustainable use of agricultural lands by developing a more diverse farming system, supporting economic development in non-European Mediterranean countries while ensuring mutual interest and benefit with the EU. It will accelerate adoption of improved agricultural practices and technologies to meet future constraints imposed by climate changes.'