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sur le développement des zones arides et semi-arides

Long-term Europe-Africa Research and Innovation Partnership for Food and Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture

Titre : SALAM-MED : Sustainable Approaches to LAnd and water Management in MEditerranean Drylands

Pays/Région : Egypt ; Greece ; Italy ; Morocco ; Spain ; Tunisia

Date : Start date 2022-04-01 // End date 2025-04-01

Identifiant : 467-SALAM-MED
Type de projet : Development and innovation oriented (research) project

Présentation
SALAM-MED is designed to identify, test and validate tailored, “nature-based” practical solutions to enhance the resilience of endangered MED dryland socio-ecological systems or to restore degraded ecosystems in arid and hyper-arid land. New knowledge, integrated tools and processes will be co-developed with stakeholders through the Living Labs (LL) across “hotspots” located in Egypt, Greece, Italy, Morocco, Spain and Tunisia, encapsulating a wide range of societal, agricultural, forestry and climatological conditions. The LL validated technologies will facilitate the efficient usage of ‘every last drop’ of water for civic, agricultural and ecosystem services and enhance the potential of scaling-up at the policy-making level and scaling-out to other MED socio-ecological systems. All relevant stakeholders and end-users will be actively engaged to test the effectiveness of the emerging solutions.

The analytical framework of SALAM-MED is based on four pillars sustaining a systemic and transdisciplinary research practice
* P1. The living lab approach based on a social learning process of knowledge-sharing for the knowledge generation
* P2. Co-researching and improvement of new technologies for sustainable land and water management by bridging knowledge gaps on water-related land degradation processes
* P3. Exploring, identifying and testing business opportunities based on an extended cost-benefit analysis of a range of context-sensitive management options
* P4. Disseminating SALAM-MED’s outcomes to different audiences and scaling out of the solutions for land restoration and the enhancement of socio-ecosystem resilience in MED drylands

Coordinateur : University of Sassari
Partenaires : University of Florence National Research Council, Italy (CNR) Primo Principio Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Desert Research Center Center for Agro-Food Economics and Development (CREDA) Abinsula Universitat Politecnica de Valencia DesertNet International (DNI) International Center for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies (CIHEAM) Academy of Athens Cadi Ayyad University WeWorld GVC Arid Regions Institute (IRA) Médnine Agro Tech

Financement principal : Directorate-General for Research and Innovation (DG RTD) (H2020
Budget : 2 835 714 EUR

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