Cross-Border Alliance for Climate-Smart and Green Agriculture in the Black Sea Basin (AGREEN)

Description:

AGREEN builds upon the concept of Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA), an approach informing integrated actions towards the transformation of agricultural systems, supporting innovation and ensuring food security in a changing climate. The project’s mission is to “bring coherence within the actions taken against climate change and restore environmental stability, economic and food security for generations to come”.

A specific objective is to design a common brand of agricultural products originating from the Black Sea Basin and deliver them in a climat-smart way. To that end, the project partners conducted feasibility study of the state-of-the-art and the potential of the climate-smart agriculture in the project countries and studied the specifics of the national contexts as well as the preferences and attitudes of the consumers.

Expected results of the project include:

• increase agricultural productivity and income;
• mitigation of emissions;
• enhance adaptation and resilience to climate change.

Project partners are based in Bulgaria, Romania, Turkey, Georgia, Armenia and Greece.

Project information

Lead

Dobrudzha Agrarian and Business School (DABS), BULGARIA

Partners

Ovidius University of Constanta, ROMANIA

Tekirdağ Namık Kemal Üniversitesi, TURKEY

Biological Farming Association ELKANA, GEORGIA

International Center for Agribusiness Research and Education ICARE Foundation, ARMENIA 

Development Agency of Eastern Thessaloniki Local Authorities, GREECE

Source of funding

European Union