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,…
On the 11th of April, our partner Camelina Company Spain held an open day at their innovation center in Daimiel, Ciudad Real, Spain, (CID). Around twenty people were present, half of them were farmers, also people from the cooperative Los Pozos (Spain) and the CCE in collaboration with the delegation of Cooperativas Agroalimentarias of…
On 21 June, Cooperativas Agro-alimentarias de España (Spanish Co-ops) and Camelina Company (CCE), partners of the 4CE-MED and CARINA projects, organised a field visit for members of the Alcamancha cooperative to learn about the camelina crop. With the aim of disseminating the need and benefits of adopting more sustainable practices in soil management and providing…
4CE-MED and Cereales Alcamancha Sociedad Cooperativa detail the camelina sowing process. video credit by Spanish Co-ops
Importance of local actors and main aspects that make camelina an interesting crop for farmers in Spain. video credit by Spanish Co-ops
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…
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
On 2 March, as part of the 4CE-MED project, a workshop was held for members of the Alcamancha cooperative. The event was organised by Agri-food Cooperatives of Spain (Spanish Co-ops) in close collaboration with Camelina Company España, the Spanish Association of Conservation Agriculture and Living Soils (AEAC.SV) and Agri-food Cooperatives of Castilla La Mancha. …
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…
