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    WaterFARMING goal is to enhance the water and nutrient retention capacity and improve use efficiency (Challenge1) in diverse arable production systems across Europe and N. Africa, to seek means to reduce soil and water pollution(Challenge2) for sustainable management of water resources(Challenge3).
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WaterFARMING will adopt an innovative case-study approach by bringing together a network of locally relevant production systems representative of the diverse pedo-climatic conditions and socio-economic settings in Europe and N. Africa . Key stakeholders (e.g., farmers, farmer networks and advisory services) will be actively involved from the start of the project to co-generate shared knowledge, from local to regional scales. The consortium will work with their own prioritized issues of water and soil pollution relevant to the local production systems by use of innovative methods and tools from field to catchment scale to identify gaps (WP2). The identified interventions will be evaluated through on-farm trials followed by productivity and economic assessments (WP4).

The expected outputs are

i) a list of water and nutrient use efficiency gaps in relevant production systems,

ii) a set of widely applicable environmental, economic and social indicators

iii) innovative practices to improve the network of production systems and

iv) a decision support tool for informed decision making by stakeholders.

Meet Our team

Dr. Bhim Bahadur Ghaley

Bhim Bahadur Ghaley has a background in molecular plant breeding and agronomy .

Prof. Abd-Alla Gad Abd-Alla Gad

Prof. Abd-Alla Gad Abd-Alla Gad was graduated at State University of Ghent, Belgium, PhD in Soil Sciences, Using Remote Sensing Techniques, October 1988.

Prof. Dr. Niels P.R. Anten

Niels is a professor of Crop and Weed Ecology at Wageningen University.

Dr. Makram Anane

Makram Anane received his PhD from Lérida University, Spain, in 2004, on crops growth monitoring using remote sensing data.

Dr. Seifeddine Jomaa

Dr. Jomaa is currently a research scientist at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) since March 2012.

Marco Lauteri

Marco Lauteri is senior researcher at IBAF in plant physiology and ecology.

Dr. Cristina Máguas Hanson

My research is focused on: i) the functioning of Mediterranean and Tropical vegetation, through ecophysiological approaches, in particular, carbon and water fluxes from leaf to ecosystem levels.