project - Research and innovation

Research-based participatory approaches for adopting Conservation Agriculture in the Mediterranean Area (CAMA)
Research-based participatory approaches for adopting Conservation Agriculture in the Mediterranean Area (CAMA)

Completed | 2020 - 2023 France, Greece, Italy, Other, Portugal, Spain, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia
Completed | 2020 - 2023 France, Greece, Italy, Other, Portugal, Spain, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia
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Objectives

CAMA project aims to understand and overcome the barriers that prevent the adoption of CA in the Mediterranean basin. A multidisciplinary and participatory research will identify socioeconomic, technical and agronomic constraints for CA adoption, and will test and validate in field new and adapted techniques of CA, measuring their positive effects on soil properties and conservation, water use efficiency and crop development. Modelling of field data will allow simulating the effect of CA on crop growth, yield and soil fertility at the long-term. CAMA will derive and disseminate technical and policy recommendations, train and improve knowhow and capacities of researchers and practitioners for adapting and adopting CA in the Mediterranean region.

Objectives

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Activities

WP1: Project management, undertakes scientific coordination, financial control, quality monitoring, risk analysis and addressing intellectual property rights and administrative management. WP2: Identification of socioeconomic CA adoption constraints. Meetings, driven discussions, interviews and comprehensive surveys with potential CA adopter farmers from 8 countries to understand reasons for a low adoption of CA in Mediterranean farming. WP3: Participatory approach: Definition of research needs and demonstration fields. Networks of local CA adopters will define the main research needs and develop demonstration fields to test innovative solutions regarding several CA practical aspects in different conditions. Conservation Agriculture Specific Objectives Participatory approach Impacts Innovation needs SOCIO-ECONOMIC EVALUATION Constraints to CA diffusion Economic advantages Training and dissemination Water conservation Soil quality CA diffusion – Farmers, technicians, policies OUTPUT Portugal Italy Spain Morocco Tunisia Greece France Algeria Legume-based cropping systems CA long-term data CA field experiment Water Use & WU Efficiency Soil fertility & NUE RESEARCH WP2 WP3 WP4 / WP5 / WP6 WP7 WP1 Project Structure WP4: Genomic and farmer-participatory selection of novel legume genotypes for innovative and diversity-based cropping systems oriented to CA, by means of genomic and farmerparticipatory approach. WP5: Agronomic assessment of CA based on water conservation and use. Short- and long-term effects of CA on crop yield and its variability, soil water infiltration and availability, and water use efficiency, under different management and climate conditions and scenarios in different agroecosystems. WP6: Environmental assessment of CA based on soil conservation in different agroecosystems. Impacts of CA on soil fertility (NPK, soil organic carbon, microbial biomass) and risk of soil erosion, and prediction of changes under different management and climate scenarios. WP7: Dissemination, capacity building and transfer. Transmission of project results of scientific and technical relevance for stakeholders involved in the transition to CA in the Mediterranean countries, namely farmers, advisors, farmers organisations, agronomists and applied researchers, with special emphasis on capacity building of young professionals.

Activities

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Additional comments

CAMA is a Research and Innovation project funded by the PRIMA Programme, supported by the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme

Additional information

Basic information of the project is available in the website in 6 languages: Arabic, English, Greek, French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish

Project details
Main funding source
Other EU research and development funds
Project acronym
CAMA
Agricultural sectors
Crops (generic)

EUR 1,500,000

Total budget

Total contributions including EU funding.

EUR 1,500,000

EU contribution

Any type of EU funding.

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Contacts

Michele Rinaldi

Project coordinator

  • CREA - Consiglio per la ricerca in agricoltura e l’analisi dell’economia agraria, Centro di Ricerca Cerealicoltura e Colture Industriali

    Project coordinator

Project partners

  • Agromnia

    Project partner

  • ARVALIS Institut du végétal

    Project partner

  • Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Zaragoza (IAMZ-CIHEAM)

    Project partner

  • Universitat de Lleida

    Project partner

  • Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas - Estación Experimental Aula Dei

    Project partner

  • Aposolo - Associação Portuguesa de Mobilização de Conservação do Solo

    Project partner

  • INIAV - Instituto Nacional de Investigação Agrária e Veterinária

    Project partner

  • ELGO-Demeter, Institute of Plant Breeding

    Project partner

  • INRAT - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique de Tunisie

    Project partner

  • APAD - Association pour l´Agriculture Durable

    Project partner

  • ENSA - Ecole Nationale Supèrieure Agronomique

    Project partner

  • INRA Maroc - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique

    Project partner