Modelling European Agriculture with Climate Change for Food Security (MACSUR)

Description:

MACSUR is a knowledge hub within FACCE-JPI (Joint Programming Initiative for Agriculture, Climate Change, and Food Security). The project aims to address the impacts of climate change on European agriculture and to enhance adaptation capacity through improvements in modeling of impacts of climate change. MACSUR brings together the excellence of research in modelling grasslands, livestock, crops, farms, and agricultural trade in order to illustrate to political decision makers how climate will affect regional farming systems and food production in Europe. To achieve this goal, MACSUR engages in a range of activities, including methodological comparisons of models and use of their outputs (scaling, uncertainty), linking of complementary models from different sectors, involvement of stakeholders, training of young scientists, and establishing a community of practice across a broad range of scientific disciplines.

Project information

Lead

University of Reading and Thünen Institute of Market Analysis

Partners

AUSTRIA - Austrian Institute of Economic Research; University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences; International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis; BELGIUM - University of Liège; Walloon Agricultural Research Centre; CZECH REPUBLIC - Global Change Research Centre, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic; DENMARK - Aarhus University, Department of Agroecology; University of Copenhagen; ESTONIA - Estonian University of Life Sciences; FINLAND - MTT Agrifood Research Finland; FRANCE - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA); GERMANY - Deutscher Wetterdienst; Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, IBG-3 Agrosphere; Thünen-Institut; Karlsruhe Institute of Technology; Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering Potsdam-Bornim; Leibniz-Zentrum für Agrarlanschaftsforschung (ZALF) e.V.; Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK); University of Bonn; HUNGARY - Centre for Ecological Research of the Hungarian Academy of Science; ISRAEL - University of Haifa; ITALY - Agricultural Research Council - Research unit for cropping systems in dry environments (CRA-SCA); CNR IBIMET Roma; ENEA CR- Casaccia Roma; EURAC Research; Fondazione Medes; Polytechnic University of Marche; Università degli Studi di Torino; Università della Basilicata; Università della Tuscia; University of Bologna; University of Florence; University of Milano; University of Naples Federico II; University of Sassari; NORWAY - Norwegian Agricultural Economics Research Institute, NILF; Norwegian Institute for Agricultural and Environmental Research, Bioforsk; Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Department of Animal- and Aquacultural Sciences; POLAND - Institute of Agrophysics of Polish Academy of Sciences; Institute of Soil Science and Plant Cultivation - State Research Institute; Institute of Technology and Life Science at Falenty; Plant Breeding and Acclimatization Institute - Mlochów Research Centre; University of Technology and Life Sciences; ROMANIA - INCDBNA Balotesti; National Agricultural Research Development Institute Fundulea; National Institute of Research and Development for Potato and Sugar Beet; National Meteorological Administration; National Research and Developement Institute for Soil Science Agrochemistry and Environment; Research and Development Institute for Processing and Marketing of the Horticultural Products; Research Development Institute for Plant Protection; Research Institute for Fruit Growing Pitesti; University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca; SPAIN - AGRISOST; Basque Centre for Climate Change, BC3; Centro de Investigación y Tecnología Agroalimentaria (CITA); CREDA; Grupo de Insectos de Vectores Patógenos de Plantas, IVPP, CSIC; Grupo de Modelización del Medio Ambiente y el Clima, MOMAC; Instituto de Investigación y Formación Agraria y Pesquera IFAPA; Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones agrarias, IVIA; IRTA - Institute for Food and Agriculture Research and Technology; Technical University of Madrid; SWEDEN - Lund University; Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences; THE NETHERLANDS - Wageningen UR; UNITED KINGDOM - Aberystwyth University; Cranfield University; Moredun Research Institute; Rothamsted Research; The James Hutton Institute; University of Aberdeen; University of Leeds; University of Reading; The Pirbright Institute; SRUC

Source of funding

JPI FACCE