Climate change resilience for perennial crops
CONTEXT
The Mediterranean region is the European area with the strongest impact of climate change on agriculture: increasing extreme heat events, droughts, biodiversity loss, water demand… Perennial fruit crops (e.g., grapevine, olive, avocado, cherries, lemons) represent an important land area of this region and are currently facing climate change. Farmers are changing or adapting their practices accordingly, but some of these practices are not managing to cross territorial borders or remain limited to a specific agricultural sector. The EU-funded CLIMED-FRUIT project aims to share this new expertise, collected from different operational groups across Europe, for a better climate change adaptation and mitigation.
OVERALL OBJECTIVES
Scaling local solutions dealing with climate change up to an EU level
Widening knowledge on ready-to-use practices to adapt to climate change
Improving understanding of climate change risks and solutions available to mitigate them
Helping Europe to become climate-neutral by 2050
5 SUB-TOPICS
Soil conservation and carbon storage
Improving resilience of crops facing climatic hazards
Innovative practices for water stress management and dry farming
Adaptation of food chain processes to climate change and diversification
Preserving biodiversity in Mediterranean crops for a better resilience to climate change issues
KEY FIGURES
European partners
Located in the Mediterranean area
Millions € budget
Months
Operational groups facilitated by partners
Perennial crops
represented in the project consortium
