Developing a tool for transferring good practices and knowledge to qualify agriculture and forest stakeholders to cope with climate change

Posted on 3rd May 2019

Article By: ECCA

The project RIAAC-AGRI aims at reducing this gap, by transferring good practices and new knowledge to qualify stakeholders responsible for rural development to better adapt to climate change. Existing scientific information in this area was collected through the consultation of research projects and scientific papers.

This project focused on four main sectors of Portuguese economy: maize and sorghum, irrigation, industrial tomato and forestry. A methodology to identify the relevant studies on the subject was defined. Information was collected and homogenized in a unified database focusing on identifying the best practices. The goal of the project is to share all the knowledge with the stakeholders, so that the knowledge obtained by the scientific community may be implemented and therefore capacitate the agricultural and forestry sectors with the best tools to adapt and mitigate the negative effects of climate change.

Thus far, the project identified 170 projects with relevant information. More specifically, 39 projects were identified for the crops of maize and sorghum, 35 related to irrigation systems, 32 for the tomato industry and 52 regarding forestry systems.

This study will explain the methodology developed to identify and retrieve these projects, analyze all project results relative to each of the four sectors and summarize the proposed best practices to cope with climate change by sector.