A project funded within the Sustainable Water Integrated Management (SWIM) to bring a durable improvement in the agricultural water management and a broader economic development in target areas in the context of adaptation to climate change, increasing water scarcity, and desertification risk.
3 years from 01/12/2011 to 28/12/2015
http://www.aclimas.eu/
General aims
ACLIMAS is a demonstration project funded within the Sustainable Water Integrated Management (SWIM) programme of the European Commission (EC). The project addresses the priority – Water and Climate Change – by promoting in 6 Mediterranean countries/target areas the demonstration / implementation / dissemination of the research results of previous EC-funded initiatives.
The overall objective is to bring a durable improvement of the agricultural water management and a broader socio-economic development of target areas in the context of adaptation to climate change, increasing water scarcity, and desertification risks. ACLIMAS pursues an holistic multidisciplinary border-crossing approach that integrates a set of locally-tailored technical adaptation measures with socio-economic and environmental aspects of water management in Mediterranean agriculture.
Specific objectives
- To improve the initial conditions (local offices, stations, and demonstration fields) for lasting promotion of sustainable agricultural practices in target areas;
- To demonstrate the applicability for the selected combinations of genotypes and water management practices (including water harvesting and conservation tillage) at demonstration fields;
- To adapt/stabilize agricultural production through large scale on-ground implementation of the best performing genotypes and water harvesting/management practices;
Expected results
Improved water productivity in agriculture and more stable agricultural production.
The expected direct outputs
- 6 demonstration fields with agro-meteorological stations, other equipment and Excel-based irrigation scheduling tool;
- 2 years of testing (at least 48 combinations of genotypes and water management practices);
- 24 training courses and 600 farmers, technicians and water managers trained;
- 60 field days with the participation of 1200 local stakeholders;
- 2 years on-ground implementation of the best performing varieties and water harvesting and management practices in a surface area of at least 240 ha with the involvement of at least 120 farmers;
- 2 guidelines, 24 brochures, 6 seminars, 180 minutes of video material, etc.
Social and economic impact
- support of the local communities to market a quality durum wheat (in Lebanon and Morocco) and chick pea (in Morocco) products and
- promotion of the women cooperatives for durum wheat transformation to several types of couscous on downstream value chain (in Morocco).
Activity
Demonstration, replication, on-ground implementation, dissemination, training, sustainability evaluation.
Partners
- Accademia Europea Bolzano
- Agenzia Regionale per la Prevenzione e Protezione Ambientale del Veneto - Dipartimento Regionale per la Sicurezza del Territorio
- Amt der Kärntner Landesregierung, Abteilung 15 Umwelt
- Amt der Niederösterreichischen Landesregierung, Abteilung Umweltwirtschaft und Raumordnungsförderung (RU3)
- ARPA - Agenzia Regionale per la Protezione Ambientale del Piemonte, Centro regionale per la Ricerca Geologica e territoriale
- Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Umwelt und Gesundheit
- Bundesamt für Raumentwicklung, Sektion Ländliche Räume und Landschaft
- Bundesamt für Umwelt, Sektion Klimaberichterstattung und –anpassung
- CMCC - Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici
- Forstliche Versuchs - und Forschungsanstalt Baden - Württemberg
- Fürstentum Liechtenstein, Amt für Wald, Natur und Landschaft
- Handwerkskammer für München und Oberbayern
- Paris-Lodron Universität Salzburg (PLUS), Zentrum für Geoinformatik (Z_GIS)
- Umweltbundesamt GmbH
- UNEP Regional Office for Europe - Interim Secretariat of the Carpathian Convention
- Université de Savoie, Laboratoire EDYTEM - UMR 5204
- Urbanistični inštitut Republike Slovenije