Project: Mediterranean Agroecosystems for Sustainability and Resilience under Climate Change
| Acronym | MAGO |
| Duration | 01/05/2021 - 30/04/2024 |
| Project Topic | Food security and water management in the Mediterranean Region are challenged by reduced water availability due to climate change, directly affecting agricultural production, and the increasing population, stressing the demand for water and food. While compelling technologies exist to improve the performance and resilience of water systems, progress has been slow in practice. One major difficulty is the disconnection between research results with real market needs and end-users demand. The MAGO project will make this connection by addressing some key barriers to innovation diffusion and adoption (e.g. social and political issues, need for affordable solutions, capacity building and new business models). MAGO will demonstrate novel solutions to enhance integrated water resources management (IWRM) for a sustainable agriculture in the Mediterranean Region. These solutions will boost water use efficiency in agriculture, the use of alternative water resources and climate change adaptation (CCA). They will be demonstrated in Tunisia, Spain, France and Lebanon. These solutions will build upon (1) a novel participatory approach with end-users and stakeholders and (2) a new online collaborative platform for researchers and entrepreneurs for delivering web applications The Project Objectives (PO) supporting this goal consist in (PO1) Novel participatory processes for better water and innovation governance, (PO2) Enhanced monitoring and modelling solutions for better water use efficiency and soil conservation, (PO3) Improved planning and operation of wastewater reuse systems in agriculture, (PO4) Provision of new solutions for Global Change adaptation, (PO5) Novel collaborative platform to deliver WEb applications for MEDiterranean region (WEMED). The IWRM approach(es) will be implemented during the project via Multi-Stakeholder Dialogue Platforms (MSDP) and Living Labs involving key representatives of project´s end-users, public decision-makers, researchers and solutions providers in the four demonstration sites. A comprehensive approach to water accounting will be based on remote sensing and crop modelling and demonstrated at plot to basin scale with interaction between those two scales. Existing data (e.g. Copernicus C3s) and simulation models (e.g. Freewat) predicting the impact of climate change will be used for developing and testing adaptation measures considering socio-economic impacts assessment, and delivery through web applications for climate change adaptation planning and resilient operation under extreme events. Capacity development is ensured through the involvement of key stakeholders in the activities, Living Labs, co-creation of the solutions and the collaborative design platform that ensure an open innovation approach. |
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| Network | PRIMA |
| Call | Section 1 Call 2020 - Water Management |
Project partner
| Number | Name | Role | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cetaqua, Centro Tecnológico del Agua, Fundación Privada | Coordinator | Spain |
| 2 | AIGÜES DE BARCELONA, EMPRESA METROPOLITANA DE GESTIÓ DEL CICLE INTEGRAL DE L'AIGUA, S.A. | Partner | Spain |
| 3 | AREA METROPOLITANA DE BARCELONA | Partner | Spain |
| 4 | Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas | Partner | Spain |
| 5 | LISODE | Partner | France |
| 6 | INSTITUT NATIONAL DE RECHERCHE POUR L’AGRICULTURE, L’ALIMENTATION ET L’ENVIRONNEMENT | Partner | France |
| 7 | University of Thessaly | Partner | Greece |
| 8 | American University of Beirut | Partner | Lebanon |
| 9 | Chahbani Technologies SA | Partner | Tunisia |
| 10 | Institut National de Recherches en Génie Rural, Eaux et Forêts | Partner | Tunisia |
| 11 | EZZAYRA SOLUTIONS | Partner | Tunisia |