WaterFarming

The innovative tools and participatory approaches adopted by the project, provides a conducive environment to cogenerate and co-innovate with the stakeholders to address water and soil pollution issues emanating due to the production practice in the local settings.

This website will provide basic information about the project, with regular updates of events and deliverables (WP5).Articles will be released to the media during and after the project as well as short videos to present the best practices from the network of production systems and catchments.

WaterFARMING contributes with novel outputs for efficient water and nutrient use at the field, farm and catchment scale with relevance across Europe and N. Africa, contributing to the call expected impacts.

See (Table 2).

WaterFARMING project outputs have multiple value additions to the water RDI. Agricultural land in Europe (EU27) accounts for 40% of total land area of which 61% is under arable crops. Agriculture accounts for 44% of the water use in Europe and 80% in countries like Tunisia.

The consortium team has been involved in many national and international projects and has extensive experience working with international partners and preparation of joint publications. The project will benefit immensely by synthesizing outputs from the previous project tasks into a database on best practices.

Clarity and quality of transfer of knowledge for the development of the consortium partners in light of the proposal objectives

WaterFARMING is one of the first to develop a common set of tools to quantify water and nutrient use efficiency from field to catchment scales across a wide variety of production systems taking environmental, social and economic indicators of sustainability into account.The project thus contributes to the development of a coordinated and versatile strategy for agricultural water management in Europe and N. Africa.