Arvalis – Institut du Végétal is the French partner in the 4CE-MED project, which aims to develop new Mediterranean farming systems that are innovative, diversified and resilient. These systems will be based on conservation agriculture practices and will include camelina, a heat- and drought-tolerant oil and protein crop with very promising agronomic and economic potential,…
With the aim of raising awareness of the benefits of growing camelina and implementing conservation agriculture on their farms, Camelina Company España (4CE-MED partner) is developing an agronomic trial in collaboration with IMIDRA (Madrid Institute for Rural Development, Food and Agricultural Research) at Finca El Encín, Alcalá de Henares, Spain. The agronomic trial includes different…
4CE-MED partners are pleased to present this video as a summary of that amazing initiative that is taking palce in the Mediterranean Area. The 4CE-MED consortium was conceived in order to follow a multi-actor approach. The consortium includes 11 partners from 7 different PRIMA countries (Geographic Area PRIMA): 4 EU (MED-EU) and 3 non-EU (MED),…
Cooperativas Agro-alimentarias de España (Spanish Co-ops) is one of the 4CE-MED project partners promoting the development of innovative, diversified and resilient Mediterranean farming systems that do not compete for land with the food chain in Spain, together with Camelina Company España and Iniciativas Innovadoras. As an example of such systems, camelina has been cultivated in…
The first meeting of 4ce-med local multi-stakeholder platform of Algeria was held on September 20 2020, at 2 pm in the ITMAS meeting room. This first meeting has been scheduled for the beginning of September. Several individual phone calls with members were made in late August and early September to discuss about the 4CE-MED project,…
CREA, one of the Italian partners of 4CE-MED project. CREA is performing experimental tests in collaboration with Camelina Company to study and asses the existing constrains of the mechanical harvesting of Camelina. One of the main targets of the 4CE-MED project is to define, optimize and test under real operational conditions locally tailor-made 4CE-MED solutions to…
One of the main targets of the 4CE-MED (Camelina: a Cash Cover Crop Enhancing water and soil conservation in MEDiterranean dry-farming systems) project is to engage local stakeholders in each of the seven participating countries (Italy, Greece, Spain, France, Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia). To achieve this goal local multi-stakeholder platforms (LMSPs) have been created since…
In the first stage of the 4CE-MED project, under the work package 1 “Local Multi-Stakeholder Platforms (LMSP)” have been launched with the aim to locally co-design the optimal tailor-made solutions including Camelina Sativa as a cash cover crop for the Mediterranean environments. The local boards will include in each country long-term CA adopters who will…
The first meeting of the 4CE-MED Italian stakeholder platform (including 15 members, i.e. farmers, farmer advisors, regional and national policy makers, and farmer association representatives) took place online on the 20th July 2020 The platform, which will engage new members in the coming months, has been set up to represent different geographical areas across Italy,…
The AAIC (Association for the Advancement of Industrial Crops) was established in 1979 as an international, non-profit educational and scientific organization with the scope to: Encourage and promote the activities of those involved in the production, processing, development, and commercialization of industrial crops and products derived from industrial crops Educate and inform our members and…
In Spain, 4CE-MED aims to introduce camelina in the rotations of low-production areas, especially arid and semi-arid drylands (below 3000 kg/ha) in the Mediterranean basin, providing alternatives to farmers. Within the framework of the project, a series of trials coordinated by Camelina Company will be carried out in Spain. The following questions were discussed in…
4CE-MED project (Camelina: a Cash Cover Crop Enhancing water and soil conservation in MEDiterranean dry-farming systems), started on May 2020, with a duration of three and a half years, and financed within the PRIMA program, participated by 11 entities from seven Mediterranean countries (Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, France, Greece, Italy and Spain) and coordinated by Alma…
