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

Titre : PRECIMED : Precision Irrigation Management to Improve Water Use Efficiency in the Mediterranean Region

Pays/Région : Spain ; Algeria ; Tunisia ; Greece

Date : Start date 2019-01-01 End date 2021-12-31

Identifiant : 164-PRECIMED
Type de projet : Development and innovation oriented (research) project

Contexte
In the 21st century, some problems like water quality degradation, under-ground water depletion, demographic unbalances between rural and urban areas or soil salinization process, has become evident in arid and semiarid areas. Some of these problems are especially relevant in the Mediterranean Region, where agriculture is one of the most dynamic and productive sectors, but also the most vulnerable to water scarcity. In this sense, there is a need to look for technologies that increase water use efficiency and make available additional (non-conventional) water sources for fertirrigation, decreasing water scarcity and the discharge of water and nutrients to the environment.

Objectif
The general objective of PRECIMED will be the development, validation and transfer of a data driven irrigation management system, in order to improve Water and Nutrient Use Efficiency in the Mediterranean Region, by integrating the knowledge about fertilizers and irrigation water man-agement with Information Communication Technologies (ICTs), which will be respectful with the environment and socioeconomically profitable. The solution provided by PRECIMED is a system that can be easily accessed and handled by the end-user through customer-friendly interfaces. This system will be comprised of several subsystems ; Data Acquisition, DSS and User Interaction subsystems, each of them composed of different sources of information and component like state-of-the-art agronomical sensor, soil and crop databases, etc. PRECIMED will be able to collect large amount of crop data, which will be processed and analyzed by the system, after which it will provide feedback about crop needs and real time recommendations to the farmers with respect to irrigation and fertilization best practices.

Coordinateur : CSIC - Spanish National Research Council
Partenaires : Odin Solutions Algeria National Agronomic Research institute (INRAA) University of Sfax University of Thessaly

Financement principal : Directorate-General for Research and Innovation (DG RTD) (H2020)
Budget : 757 499 EUR

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