The 4CE-MED team of ICARDA Morocco visited farmers fields and Women Cooperative (Cooperative Feminine Magador) in Essaouira region of Morocco to expand cultivation of camelina and value addition to camelina oil respectively. Local people living in these arid and semi-arid regions have created an incredible production system based on the argan tree. These argan trees…
Growing camelina into double cropping system in France raises questions about the regulations, particularly regarding the status of this crop with respect to changes in land use, despite numerous agronomic interests of this crop. Indeed, sown in autumn and harvested in late May/early June before a primary food/feed crop or sown in late June after…
Sylvain Marsac from ARVALIS , shared with us the motivation of being part of 4CE-MED project as partner in France.
Last Wednesday 15th June, Agri-food Cooperatives of Spain organised, within the framework of the 4CE-MED Project and with the support of Camelina Company España, the AEAC.SV and Cereales Alcamancha S.C., a field visit to Valparaíso de Abajo (Cuenca) to witness the camelina harvest by farmers from Alcamancha. The visit was attended by 15 members of…
LMSPs have been set up in each Country at the beginning of the project and very important ideas arose during the meetings which positively influenced 4CE-MED activities and helped understand how these innovative cropping systems should be scaled up to a commercial level. The most important topics discussed during the LMSPs meetings were: Identification of…
Kyriakos Kempapidis from Bios-Agrosystems shared with us the motivation of being part of 4CE-MED project as partner in Greece. Read the Interview to Kyriakos Kempapidis.
Pablo Fernandez from Agri-food Cooperatives Spain shared with us the motivation of being part of 4CE-MED project as partner in Spain. Read the interview
INRAT, in the frame of 4CE-MED project has organized on the 29th of March 2022 a field day in the experimental station of INRAT in EL KEF More than 50 participants attanded the field day from differents organisations and institutes. The aim of the demo trials was to present camelina which is a new crop…
Bios agrosystems MABEE in cooperation with CRES organized the experimental design for Camelina’s trials in Greece (WP3). The aim of the demo trials is to identify the best sowing date, practice of fertilization and strategy of harvesting for Camelina crop in the climatic and environmental conditions of Greece. Generally, Bios will establish two demo…
On 18th November 2021, the second screening trial was sowed in Spain at Entresierras experimental farm (Ciudad Real province, Castilla La Mancha community) under a typical rainfed sole-cropping system consisting in barley-fallow. 20 camelina varieties are being tested within a randomized design and 4 replicates for the optimization of the better adapted varieties to local…
