MAIA Webinar. Climate Change & Agriculture (Part VI)

Date and time.

Friday, 27 October, 2023 – 11:00 to 12:00 h (CEST)

About the webinar

Join us on the MAIA Webinar No. 10 where we will hear from the EU projects AgriAdapt, BEATLES and VISIONARY.

Featuring projects

1. AgriAdapt Sustainable adaptation of typical EU farming systems to climate change

• Budget: 2 158 937 €
• Funding call: Life (CCA)
• Project duration: 40 months (Septembre 2016 – April 2020)
• Partners:  4 
• Website link: https://agriadapt.eu/ 

The overall objective of the LIFE AgriAdapt project was to demonstrate that three of the most important farming systems in the EU (livestock, arable and permanent crops) could more climate-resilient through the implementation of feasible and sustainable adaptation measures which also could have positive crosscutting environmental benefits. To this end, different measures were tested in 126 pilot farms across the four main EU Climate Risk Regions and the conclusions obtained was used to elaborate General proposals for key farming systems.

2. BEATLES Behavioural Change Towards Climate-Smart Agriculture

• Budget: € 3 911 528,75
• Funding call: Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
• Project duration: 1 July 2022 – 30 June 2026
• Partners: 16
• Cordis link 

BEATLES aspires to identify the individual, systemic and policy lock-ins and levers that influence entire food systems behavioural change and to develop transformation pathways of change to accelerate the systemic and systematic transition to climate-smart agriculture and smart farming technologies, fully aligned with the ambitions of the Farm to Fork and Biodiversity Strategies, and the new CAP at regional and EU levels.

3. VISIONARY

• Budget: €3,153,557.50 (only EU Partners)
• Funding call: HORIZON-CL6-2021-FARM2FORK-01
• Project duration: 48 months
• Partners: 13
• Website link https://visionary-project.eu/ 

VISIONARY aims to improve the sustainability of agriculture and food systems by promoting practices in food systems that are more environmentally friendly, economically viable, and socio-culturally appropriate, and helping to remove the barriers to their adoption.

Speakers

1. Nicolas Métayer Deputy director at Solagro, project manager in Agriculture, Energy and Climate Solagro

Nicolas Métayer supports climate (mitigation and adaptation) & energy initiatives in the agricultural sector since 2008 at Solagro. He is expert in issues related to the adaptation of agriculture to climate change in collaboration with climate centers in France and in Europe. He has coordinated Solagro’s participation in several European projects in the last 15 years, including LIFE+09ENV/ES/000441 AgriClimateChange and LIFE 15CCA/DE00072 – LIFE AGRI ADAPT. Nicolas has also managed the development of CANARI climate service, a free access web portal for agricultural actors wishing to calculate directly online, simply and quickly, local agro-climatic indicators from climate projections.

2. Jasmina Bevc Bahar

Jasmina was Head of Public Relations and Communications  over 10 year at ZPS and is an expert in Public Relations, Project Management (national and EU projects) and social media with more than 20 years of experience. Through previous roles coordinating EU-level information campaigns on consumer rights in Croatia and Romania and EU projects (H2020, Erasmus), she is currently project leader of 6 national project (all food related) and two EU project. In June 2023 she took up the role of Secretary General of Slovene Consumers’ Association

3. Dionisio Ortiz Miranda Full professor of Agricultural economics and policy at the Universidad de Córdoba

Dionisio Ortiz Miranda is Full Professor of agricultural economics, sociology and policy at the Department of Economics and Social Sciences, Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV, Spain). He currently coordinates the Horizon Europe research project VISIONARY “Food provision through sustainable farming systems and value chains” and is the Director of the Chair New Green Transition at the UPV. He is member of the Steering and Monitoring Committee of the Foundation Daniel and Nina Carasso, in which he chaired the former Spanish Scientific Committee on Sustainable Food.

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