Extracting oil from camelina seeds
ICARDA partner shows in this video the extraction oil from camelina seeds using traditional method. ICARDA extracted oil to show farmers and stakeholders and get their opinion or feedback. ICARDA
TESTS OF VARIOUS CAMELINE SOWING OPPORTUNITIES IN FRANCE
Camelina sowing under a pea cover in a double cropping system: drone sowing, pneumatic seeder or direct sowing after harvest. In order to ensure the crop emergence before dry periods, various opportunities are being tested within the framework of the 4CE-MED project (PRIMA Programme official). These opportunities, for crop diversification and adaptation to climate change,…
EXPERIMENTAL STATION OF INRAT
INRAT : Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique de Tunisie is the only Tunisian 4CE-MED partner. Within the framework of the project, trials were conducted in Kef experimental station of INRA Tunisia under conventional and conservation agriculture conditions. Camelina grew very well despite the severe condition of Kef region.
AN UPCOMING AGRONOMIC TRIAL OF CAMELINA IN GREECE
Following the new European shift towards alternative and innovative crops, Bios Agrosystems MABEE will develop a demo filed trial of Camelina in collaboration with 4CE-MED project. The demo field trial will be conducted in the northern part of Greece and cover an area of 1 hectare. The project aims to integrate Camelina in a…
FIELD DAY EVENT AT ICARDA MARCHOUCH RESEARCH STATION, MOROCCO
One field day event was organized on 6-April-2021 by Office National du Conseil Agricole, ONCA (Moroccan National Office of Agricultural Council) and ICARDA-Morocco to show farmers types of farming systems and crops for diversification in crop rotation in wheat-based farming systems. Twenty farmers and ONCA officials participated in this one-day event. As a part of…
SETTING UP THE 4CE-MED PROJECT IN FRANCE
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,…
AGRONOMIC TRIAL IN SPAIN
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 VIDEO
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),…
4CE-MED PROJECT PARTNERS DEVELOP FIRST ACTIONS IN SPAIN
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…
FIRST MEETING OF 4CE-MED LOCAL MULTI-STAKEHOLDER PLATFORM OF ALGERIA
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,…