May92025

4CE-MED and WATERMELLON: A Shared Path Toward Sustainable and Climate-Resilient Mediterranean Agriculture

Sin categoría

As Mediterranean agriculture faces intensifying climate challenges, two complementary EU-funded projects—4CE-MED and WATERMELLON—are joining forces to promote innovative, sustainable, and resilient farming systems for smallholder farmers across the region. Both projects are funded by the PRIMA (Partnership for Research and Innovation in the Mediterranean Area) programme and bring together a strong network of shared partners…

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Jul312024

4CE-MED voice in Tunisia

Tunisia

Imen Trabesi, Imen Trabelsi, PhD in Biological Sciences and full time Researcher at INRAT, in the Laboratory of Agronomic Sciences and Techniques, Weed Scientist, well experienced in field crops, shared with us their motivation for being part a partner in 4CE-MED.  Through the 4CE-MED project partner’s voice, we try to bring you closer to the reality of African…

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Jun272024

4CE-MEd Scientific Publications

Camelina, Farmers, Industry

The 4CE-MED project has nearly ended and has achieved the envisioned targets. Research partners have elaborated Scientific Publications. We invite you to have a look at these articles that are also available on zenodo project profile and in our library section.   Mechanical Harvesting of Camelina: Work Productivity, Costs and Seed Loss Evaluation ABSTRACT: Camelina…

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May292024

Final Meeting in Bologna

Camelina, Italy

Last May 22nd the University of Bologna  Alma Mater Studiorum (UNIBO) as lead partner of the 4CE-MED project celebrated its Final Meeting in Bologna, (Italy). After more than four years of work, the 4CE-MED project has nearly ended and has achieved the envisioned targets. The Final Meeting was an opportunity where all partners presented the…

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May292024

Presetation of 4CE-MED Practice Abstracts

Argelia, Camelina, Farmers, France, Greece, Italy, Marroco, Spain, Tunisia

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,…

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May142024

EXPLORING SYNERGIES WITH OTHER EU PROJECTS

Camelina, Stakeholder

One of the aims of the 4CE-MED community is to generate synergies with linked projects. During the last period of 4CE-MED, our Spanish partner Camelina Company Spain has held two lighthouses exploring synergies with UNTWIST & CARINA projects. On 08th May 2024_double cropping lighthouse at Penelles, Lleida province took place. Sixteen people were present at…

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Apr112024

Camelina’s field day in Greece

Camelina, Greece

In the frame of the 4CE-MED project, BIOS AGROSYSTEMS in collaboration with CRES will organize a field day on 22nd April to disseminate the camelina crop to farmers, professional agronomists, and other stakeholders. The demonstration field is located in Chalkidiki (Nea Gonia) in the northern part of Greece. The Alba variety was planted at the…

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Mar62024

Demonstration field in Italy

Italy

In the context of Work Package 3, a demonstration field was planted at the end of October 2023 on a farm located close to Padova in North Italy. The trial was established using the minimum tillage technique, and the variety Alba was planted at a sowing rate of 7 kilograms per hectare. The plants are…

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Feb142024

Partner’s voice from Algeria

Argelia, Camelina

Abderrahmane Hannachi, Ph.D. in Agronomy/Plant Breeding,  Researcher at INRAA (Algeria),  shared with us their motivation for being part a partner in 4CE-MED.  Through 4CE-MED project partner’s voice we try to bring you closer to the reality of African Mediterranean countries explaining his motivation and achieved outcomes being part of the PrimaProgram project and also mentioning some…

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Jan102024

Networking event 4CE-MED & AGROMITIGA (Life project)

partners, Stakeholder

The workshop “Meeting agricultural climate challenges through R&D“, is organized by the European Conservation Agriculture Federation (ECAF) in the framework of the Life Agromitiga project and with the co-organization of the 4CE-MED project. The workshop will take place (entirely online) during the morning of 16 January 2024. This workshop aims to create a discussion to highlight the lessons learned and…

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Nov212023

1st Mediterranean Conservation Agriculture Conference

Camelina, Stakeholder, Tunisia

Recent extreme droughts destroying crops in several Mediterranean countries highlighted the urgency of developing adaptation and mitigation strategies to climate change. Conservation Agriculture (CA), although known to be among the best strategies to mitigate the effects of climate change, lacks large-scale adoption in the Mediterranean region. There are several concerted efforts across the region to…

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Nov82023

4CE-MED presentation at the Agrilevante in Italy

Camelina, Farmers, Italy, Sin categoría

From 5 to 8 October 2023 Bari hosted “Agrilevante“, an international exhibition of machinery, systems, and technologies for agricultural production, this event is the most important exhibition dedicated to the primary sector that takes place in the Mediterranean basin. During this event, on 6 October 2023, a workshop organized by Edagricole, a well-known Italian publishing…

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Oct232023

Camelina harvesting in experimental field in France

Camelina, France, Italy

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…

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Jun192023

Networking activities with CARINA project

Camelina, Stakeholder

In the framework of Networking activities with other projects, 4CE-MED has linked up with CARINA which plans to carry out collaborative actions in the coming months, in particular the organization of meetings between both projects for results presentation and analysis of present and future collaboration. Both projects have established an interaction plan which includes technical…

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May52023
Minister of Agriculture of Morocco

The Minister of Agriculture, Kingdom of Morocco Visits Camelina Trials at ICARDA and INRA Marchouch Research Station in Morocco

Camelina, Marroco, Stakeholder

His Excellency, Mr Mohammed Sadiki, Minister of Agriculture,and Water and Forests of Morocco, accompanied by the Governor of the Province of Khémisset, Director of INRA-Morocco, professionals, elected officials, as well as a large delegation of Ministry officials, visited Marchouch Experimental station of INRA and ICARDA, Morocco, on April 11, 2023. During his visit to the…

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Mar312023

Experimental tests in Italy

Camelina, Farmers, Italy

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…

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Jan92023

Crop rotation in Tunisia

Camelina, Farmers, Stakeholder, Tunisia

  Most of the agricultural areas in Tunisia are intended for cereals crops and arboriculture. Crop rotation is not well diversified; it is practically limited to legumes. Through the 4CE-MED project funded by the European Union, INRAT, being the only Tunisian partner, is working to develop new innovative, diversified, and resilient Mediterranean agricultural systems. In…

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Jul112022

Farm demonstration trial of Camelina in Morocco

Farmers, Marroco

  Under 4CE-MED project, on-farm demonstration trial of Camelina under conservation agriculture (CA) was planted at Oued Ghilane village near Settat, Morocco. A field event was organized for farmers on May 6, 2022. Twelve farmers and a student participated in the event. Office National du Conseil Agricole (ONCA) representative was met individually, informed the details…

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Jun162022

Local Multi-Stakeholder Platforms (LMSPs)

Argelia, Camelina, Farmers, France, Greece, Italy, Marroco, partners, Spain, Stakeholder, Tunisia

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…

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Mar312022
Conservation agriculture and camelina

Conservation agriculture and camelina, sustainable practices and diversification for the new CAP 2023

Farmers, Spain, Stakeholder

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.  …

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Jan122022
DEMO TRIALS IN GREECE 3

CAMELINA DEMO TRIALS IN GREECE

Camelina, Greece

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…

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Dec222021
starting sowing

CAMELINA SOWING STRATEGIES

Camelina, Spain

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…

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Oct152021
MPL FRANCE

Second meeting of the French 4CE-MED multi-stakeholder platform

Camelina, Farmers, France, Stakeholder

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…

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Oct142021
Camelina oil extraction

Second meeting of 4CE-MED Local Multi-Stakeholder Platform of Algeria

Argelia, Camelina, Farmers

The 4CE-MED Algerian stakeholders attending the meeting were 12 members including 3 females, representing farmers, training and technical institutes, Cooperative, farmer association representatives and university researchers. The platform will be open to new members in the future. After welcoming the attendance, Mr HANNACHI Abderrahmane and BENIDIR Mohamed gave a general presentation of the 4CE-MED project,…

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Oct82021
2ND PLATFORM ITALY

SECOND NATIONAL STAKEHOLDER PLATFORM IN ITALY

Camelina, Italy, Stakeholder

Last first september the 4CE-MED Italian Stakeholder Platform included 17 members, (farmers, farmer advisors, regional policy makers and farmer associations). In particular, eight  were women, and eight  young people. The participants of the Platform represented different geographical areas of Italy, from the North to the South. Main outcomes of the National Stakeholder Platform held in…

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Sep292021

MULTISTAKEHOLDER PLATFORM IN TUNISIA

Camelina, Stakeholder, Tunisia

In Tunisia, most of the agricultural areas are intended to cereals crops and arboriculture. Crop rotation is still limited and not well diversified; it is practically limited to legumes. 4CE-MED project is working to develop new innovative, diversified and resilient Mediterranean agricultural systems. In this context, Camelina sativa will be tested during the project under…

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Sep202021
national panel in Spain

SECOND MEETING OF THE SPANISH NATIONAL PANEL

Camelina, Spain, Stakeholder

The 4CE-MED project brings together the national panel in Spain to evaluate the Camelina trials. Partners of the European 4CE-MED project held the second meeting of the Spanish national panel on 14th September 2021, which brought together representatives of Agri-food Cooperatives of Spain, Camelina Company Spain (CCE), Agrovegetal, IMIDRA (Madrid Institute for Rural, Agricultural and…

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Jun92021
Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique de Tunisie

EXPERIMENTAL STATION OF INRAT

Camelina, Farmers, Tunisia

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.

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May142021

THE 4CE-MED PROJECT WILL COLLABORATE WITH THE ALCAMANCHA COOPERATIVE

Spain, Stakeholder

Cooperativas Agro-alimentarias de España and Cereales Alcamancha S.Coop. have reached an agreement whereby this cooperative will collaborate for the next two years with the 4CE-MED project to promote the adoption of camelina and conservation agriculture in the Alcarria area of Cuenca. In this sense, the cooperative will organise, in collaboration with Cooperativas Agro-alimentarias de España,…

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Apr192021
Photo Arvalis Cameline

SETTING UP THE 4CE-MED PROJECT IN FRANCE

Camelina, France, Stakeholder

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,…

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Mar312021
IMIDRA, Finca El Encín, Alcalá de Henares, Spain

AGRONOMIC TRIAL IN SPAIN

Camelina, 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…

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Mar22021
4CE-MED partners

4CE-MED VIDEO

Argelia, Camelina, France, Greece, Italy, Marroco, Spain, Tunisia

    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),…

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Oct282020
Cash Cover Crop Enhancing water and soil conservation in MEDiterranean dry-farming systems

FIRST CONSULTATION OF THE LOCAL MULTI-STAKEHOLDER PLATFORM IN ITALY

Camelina, Italy

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 engage local stakeholders in each of the seven participating countries (Italy, Greece, Spain, France, Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia). To achieve this goal local multi-stakeholder platforms (LMSPs) have been created since…

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Sep222020
Local multi-stakeholder platforms

Local Multi-Stakeholder Platforms (LMSP) perspectives exchange in Mediterranean countries

Argelia, France, Greece, Italy, Marroco, Spain, Stakeholder, Tunisia

In the first stage of the 4CE-MED project, under the work package 1 “Local Multi-Stakeholder Platforms (LMSP)” have been launched with the aim to locally co-design the optimal tailor-made solutions including Camelina Sativa as a cash cover crop for the Mediterranean environments. The local boards will include in each country long-term CA adopters who will…

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Aug32020
Italy

ITALIAN NATIONAL PLATFORM CONSULTATION

Camelina, Italy

The first meeting of the 4CE-MED Italian stakeholder platform (including 15 members, i.e. farmers, farmer advisors, regional and national policy makers, and farmer association representatives) took place online on the 20th July 2020 The platform, which will engage new members in the coming months, has been set up to represent different geographical areas across Italy,…

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Jul302020
AAIC Webinar series

4CE-MED encourages to register at 2020 AAIC Webinar Series

Camelina

The AAIC (Association for the Advancement of Industrial Crops) was established in 1979 as an international, non-profit educational and scientific organization with the scope to: Encourage and promote the activities of those involved in the production, processing, development, and commercialization of industrial crops and products derived from industrial crops Educate and inform our members and…

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