After more than four years of work, the 4CE-MED project has nearly ended and has achieved the envisioned targets. All the consortium partners have elaborated seven Practice Abstracts (PA), adapted to all Mediterranean countries participating in the 4CE-MED project. The involved countries Algeria, France, Greece, Italy, Morocco, Spain, and Tunisia present their PA on Innovative,…
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 define, optimize, and test under real operational conditions locally tailor-made 4CE-MED solutions to adopt camelina as a low-input cash cover crop, assuring short term economic profit to Mediterranean farmers (WP2). CREA, one…
The voice of key stakeholders is present in the 4CE-MED project, this video presents the benefits of camelina from the perspective of farmers, agricultural cooperatives and, industry.
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.
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…
The second meeting of the French multi-stakeholder platform of the 4CE-MED project was held on September 1st in Dijon. On this occasion, the first results of the Camelina 2021 trials were shared with farmers, techno-economic actors (Terres Inovia), processing operators (Saipol – Avril group) and institutions (Ministry of Agriculture and Food). While some crop…
On October 6 and 7, SAIPOL organized a field visit lap of camelina experimental fields sown in a summer double cropping system after cereals or peas. Set up in a double cropping system, camelina would make it possible to meet some of the objectives of advanced biofuels or even of the bioeconomy development. Various agricultural…
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,…
4CE-MED partners want to tell you about the implemented activities in the frame of this Mediterranean experience. You can subscribe our NEWSLETTER that we plan to publish once a year compiling the progress and results of our project. THE FIRST ONE IS ALREADY PUBLISHED! If you want to be kept up to date, we…
