AGRIDEMA - Indroducing Tools for Agricultural Decision-Making under Climate Change Conditions by connecting Users and Toolproviders.
Abstract
The strategic objective of AGRIDEMA is to promote a research network, linking European modelling tool-providers and developers with the potential users of their research results; which could secure sustainability of agricultural crop production and land-using through effective local decisions, taken after consistent climate-impact assessments. A special focus is attended to those assessments related to the impacts of extreme weather events, because of their high risk significance for agriculture. According to the above, present Specific Support Action (SSA) is addressed to establish connections and feedback mechanisms between high level research centres of Europe; where modelling tools have been developed and tested (“developers”); with their potential users from local agricultural decision-making (“users”). It will be done through initial contacts, short courses and pilot primary assessments. The local researchers to be initially supported by the SSA should be those located in the EU and EU-associated countries where global-change and weather extreme-events could bring the most negative consequences, i.e. those from Southern, Central and Eastern Europe, as well as the non-European Mediterranean countries. The SSA should establish a continuous acting information network, comprising several European “developers” and “users”.
keywords Global Change adaptation strategies Global change mitigation strategies Agricultural dicision-making
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Project staff
Josef Eitzinger
Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.nat.techn. Josef Eitzinger
josef.eitzinger@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-81422
Project Leader
01.01.2005 - 30.06.2007
BOKU partners
External partners
Instituto Tecnológico Agrario de Castilla y León
Dr. Angel Utset
coordinator