Climate Change adaptation of dryland agricultural systems in the Mediterranean area (LIFE AMDRYC4)
Description:
The climatic conditions make unirrigated Mediterranean agricultural soils in arid zones vulnerable to an increase of temperature associated with climate change. The project LIFE AMDRYC4 seeks to implement adaptation measures to agricultural areas to make them more resilient to the effects of climate change. It aims to promote and develop such measures in Mediterranean dry farming areas along with sustainable, smart and integrated management as a tool for climate change adaptation and mitigation.
Specific objectives are to:
- Implement adaptive solutions through soft technologies and sustainable, smart and integrated measures leading to an ecosystem-based adaptation to climate change;
- Develop methodologies and monitoring indicators to assess transformative changes in carbon stock in soils and combat against desertification;
- Contribute to a more accurate practice-oriented knowledge base, and an enhancement of agricultural systems, through modelling of organic carbon accountability and ecosystem services to assess adaptation and climate change mitigation, integrating cost-benefit analysis;
- Encourage ex ante and ex post replicability of project actions, through implication of stakeholders interested in promotion with voluntary agreements with farmers;
- Establish a land stewardship entity as a catalyst and driver for the adoption of the adaptation strategy;
- Promote sustainable, smart and integrated development, through improvement of dryland farming soils;
- Support rural communities, the circular economy and rural employment;
- Contribute to governance, analysing financial instruments and developing new proposals for after-LIFE project sustainability; and
- Inform, create awareness and encourage main stakeholders in dry farming systems about sustainability to foster a change in corporate culture through the promotion of the calculation of carbon footprints.
Project information
Lead
University of Murcia
Partners
Oficina de Impulso Socioeconómico de Medio Ambiente - Comunidad Autónoma de la Región de Murcia, Spain
Ingeniería del Entorno Natural, SL, Spain
Asociación Nueva Cultura por el Clima, Spain
Coordinadora de Organizaciones de Agricultores y Ganaderos Iniciativa Rural de Murcia (COAG-IR Murcia), Spain
Source of funding
LIFE programme
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Published in Climate-ADAPT Jan 07 2019 - Last Modified in Climate-ADAPT Dec 12 2023