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Coordination of the
Agricultural Research
In the Mediterranean Area
ARIMNet2
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Coordination of the
Contents
1. ARIMNet “brochure”
2. ARIMNet2 leaflet
3. ARIMNet2 powerpoint template
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ARIMNet
A Network
for Agricultural Research
www.arimnet.net
Contents
• Editorial
• One major output of ARIMNet: the pilot call 2011
• Analysis of the submitted research proposals
• Projects funded under the 2011 call
• ARIMNet2, objectives and workplan
• ARIMNet2 partners: an enlarged network
• Perspectives: towards Mediterranean joint programming?
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From the coordinator
The countries of the Mediterranean basin face a number of similar problems
in relation to agriculture and food security, mainly with regards to the use and
management of natural resources, such as soil and water, crop protection,
and threats to the security and sustainability of agricultural production
resulting from climate change.
The first characteristic of the Mediterranean area is the high level of vulnerability of its natural environment. And its sensitive ecosystems are currently threatened by pressures of various kinds. The
Mediterranean region is considered one of the areas of the world most threatened by climate change,
which could worsen stresses that are already high: drought, the frequency of extreme climatic events,
and endemic and emerging diseases in both crops and animals.
Secondly, the Mediterranean region is one of the hotspots of global biodiversity, with a remarkable
richness in cultivated and wild species characterising the area. This diversity is clearly an asset for the
region which could be of value through specific agricultural and food products and which could be used
to face new challenges such as adaptation to climate change. It also has to be preserved as a common
heritage.
Thirdly, water is a scarce resource in most Mediterranean countries and its availability is decreasing.
In several countries water use is reaching the level of available resources. Furthermore, overexploitation of ground water raises several other environmental problems, such as soil salinity. In the future,
agriculture will be in increasingly serious competition with other users, which implies the need to find
solutions for limiting losses and ensuring more efficient use of water resources.
Better management of natural resources is therefore a prerequisite for maintaining agricultural sustainability. Agriculture has a significant role to play in producing environmental services for the entire
society. However, at the same time, developing agricultural production and ensuring food security are
key priorities for most countries in the Mediterranean region. New pathways for agricultural development should therefore be found that allow us to improve the resilience and productivity of agricultural
systems while preserving natural resources for the future.
Given this context, the challenge for all Mediterranean countries, beyond the enhancement of their
own capacity in agricultural research, is to bring together their national capacities through a mechanism which allows for the alignment of programmes and renewed cooperation in order to achieve the
necessary critical mass (at least in the areas that are crucial for Mediterranean agriculture and ecosystems) and therefore ensure research has a stronger impact on the development of the whole area.
The Mediterranean basin concentrates the key global challenges facing agriculture and we should
therefore see concentrated intense research efforts. But for the moment, this is not the case. Issues
are too often looked at separately from each side of the Mediterranean Sea. There is a major need
to enhance research efforts through multilateral cooperation, both to strengthen the economies of
Mediterranean countries and to help find solutions to global challenges.
This is the aim of the ERA-Nets ARIMNet (2008-2012) and ARIMNet2 (2014-2017) on the coordination
of Agricultural Research in the Mediterranean.
ARIMNet’s concept is to foster the coordination of the network participants’ programmes through a
four step process:
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• Information exchange and mapping to improve mutual acquaintances and sharing of best practices.
• Strategic orientation of research programmes to eliminate overlapping and to open novel issues.
• Joint activities to consolidate and harmonise partnerships in order to outline common visions
and agendas.
• Calls for proposals to expand the structural impact of the network.
Twelve countries were involved in the first phase of ARIMNet: six from the European Union (France,
Spain, Italy, Portugal, Cyprus and Greece), two Associated Countries (Turkey and Israel) and four Mediterranean Partner countries (Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco and Egypt). The main results of the ARIMNet
project are the following:
• Conducting a common mapping and analysis of existing research programmes and research
capacity in Mediterranean agriculture (available at http://www.arimnet.net).
• Producing methodological documents which aim to prepare future actions: identifying barriers
which hinder future cooperation, identifying and specifying enabling conditions for implementing
joint activities, analysing the outputs and impacts of the first joint call, and identifying lessons
learnt from this call.
• Launching a transnational joint call for proposals (2011) and selecting 10 projects to be funded among 86 transnational proposals. The objective of the call was to promote international
collaboration through collaborative interdisciplinary projects in order to respond appropriately to
the global issues and challenges Mediterranean agriculture is facing. Eleven countries supported
the call and are involved in the funding of the joint research projects. The projects started during
the summer of 2012 and will last for three years.
Examining the achievements of the ARIMNet project, the accumulation of cooperation experiences
among Mediterranean countries represents a crucial step with strong relationships developed between
partners. Better knowledge of current research programmes and a willingness to implement other
joint activities have been established. This is the reason for building the ARIMNet2 project. In this
second phase of ARIMNet, the challenge will be to consolidate and sustain cooperation. The ARIMNet2
consortium, enlarged with the addition of Croatia, Malta and Slovenia, and with a larger number of
funding agencies in several participant countries, will work to:
• Enhance and strengthen transnational cooperation and knowledge generation and innovation within
the Mediterranean region in sharing objectives and priorities, with a view to establishing a common
vision on agricultural research and innovation.
• Increase the excellence and relevance of agricultural research in order to contribute to addressing
the huge societal challenges related to food, rural development, water and natural resources which
Mediterranean countries are facing today.
• Establish a consolidated framework for cooperation that could lead to a stable and long-lasting
cooperation between EU member states, Associated Countries and Southern Mediterranean countries.
Florence Jacquet,
ARIMNet Coordinator,
Senior Researcher at INRA, France
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One major output of ARIMNet:
the pilot call 2011
A long-term aim of the ERA-Net ARIMNet was
to implement a common research agenda and
mutual coordinated co-funded activities between
countries of the Mediterranean Basin which make
it possible to address common Mediterranean
agricultural research issues. In the continuation of
the work done in Work Package (WP) 1 (identification and analysis of national programmes) and
in WP2 (identification of strategic priorities), the
launch and management of a joint call for transnational research projects (WP4) was considered
a priority by the partners. This action started in
January 2011 and continued beyond the end of
the ARIMNet project, since the research projects
funded continue after ARIMNet ends.
This call’s objective was to enhance and foster
scientific research and cooperation among the
ARIMNet partners’ scientific community. It aimed
to enable collaborative interdisciplinary projects
based on complementarities between scientists,
disciplines and countries. Its objective was to
promote international collaboration through research consortia in order to respond appropriately
to the global issues and challenges Mediterranean
agriculture is facing.
cies concerned. The funding agencies agreed
on a ‘virtual common pot’ of €5.46 million. This
funding mechanism entails each agency funding
the research teams of its own country but on the
basis of a common Mediterranean selection of the
projects.
Selection of topics
Several reviews and assessments, such as the
IAASTD report on the CWANA region (2008), the
AARINENA e-consultation for GCARD (2010), the
CIHEAM report on the future of agriculture and
food in Mediterranean countries (2008) and the
ANR-PARME analysis of foresights concerning the
Mediterranean area (2011), have identified strategic issues for the Mediterranean Basin. Together
with a stakeholder conference hold in Palma
Mallorca (October 2010), they formed the basis
for defining the scope of the call.
The scope of the call was defined to address scientific issues that could help to meet the challenges
faced by Mediterranean agriculture. Integrated
and multidisciplinary approaches were requested,
as they are generally needed to address complex
issues. One characteristic of this call was to be
non-specialised but oriented towards research
Furthermore, because this was the first experience
projects aiming to contribute to solving strategic
of a joint call, it also served as a pilot, with the aim
issues in Mediterranean agriculture. These issues
of developing basic procedures and mechanisms,
were described in three topics and sub-topics :
agreed and shared by all partner countries. Thus
the outcome of the call was, on the one hand, the 1. Production systems and their components:
selected projects and the expected impacts of Developing sustainable agricultural production
their results for Mediterranean agriculture and, in a context of increasing ecological and climatic
on the other, establishing procedures and com- stresses
mon knowledge that now allow ARIMNet mema) Resilience, rusticity, flexibility of the probers to plan the launch of other calls.
duction systems
b) Improving the economic and environThe funding agencies elaborated in common:
mental efficiency of production systems,
• The scientific scope of the call.
agro-ecology
• The common eligibility criteria.
c) Integrated approaches to reduce endemic
• The evaluation criteria.
and emerging animal and plant diseases
• The constitution of an international evaluation
d) Sustainable management of pastoral and
committee.
rangeland farming
e) Water saving techniques, reduction of
The 2011 call for proposals was launched folchemical inputs, soil protection
lowing a joint decision of the ARIMNet partners
f) Agricultural and agro-environmental
policies design
and the agreement of the national funding agen-
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2. Food chain from production to distribution:
Enhancing the advantages of Mediterranean agriculture in developing products with high added
value
a) Production and processing technologies
b) Marketing, supply chain organisation,
transportation
c) Food safety
d) Quality standards, labelling, geographical indications
e) Reducing post-harvest losses
f) Incentives for innovation, private and
public investments
3. Landscape and resource use for agricultural
and environmental purposes: Sustainable management of land and natural resources
a) Spatial aspects of agricultural use of natural resources
b) Agro-ecosystems and landscape mosaics
c) Peri-urban and urban agriculture
d) Relationship between coastal areas and
hinterland
e) Land property and land structures
f) Agricultural, environmental and rural
development policies
Table - National priorities
1 Production
systems
countries
2 Food chain
National priorities
3 Landscape
and resource
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France
AGENCE NATIONALE
DE LA RECHERCHE
X
Italy
MINISTERO
DELLE POLITICHE AGRICOLE
ALIMENTARI E FORESTALI
X
X
Algeria
MINISTERE DE L'ENSEIGNEMENT
SUPERIEUR ET DE
LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE /
DGSRTD
X
X
Spain
INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE
INVESTIGACION Y TECNOLOGIA
AGRARIA Y ALIMENTARIA
X
Turkey
MINISTRY OF FOOD
AGRICULTURE AND
LIVESTOCK / GDAR
X
Egypt
THE AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTER
/ MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND
LAND RECLAMATION
X
Morocco
MINISTERE DE L’ENSEIGNEMENT
SUPERIEUR, DE LA RECHERCHE
SCIENTIFIQUE ET DE LA FORMATION
DES CADRES
X
Greece
HELLINIKOS GEORGIKOS
ORGANISMOS - DIMITRA (HELLENIC
AGRICULTURAL ORGANIZATION DEMETER)/ NAGREF
X
Tunisia
INSTITUTION DE LA RECHERCHE ET DE
L'ENSEIGNEMENT SUPERIEUR
AGRICOLES
X
Cyprus
MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE,
NATURAL RESOURCES AND
ENVIRONMENT
X
Israel
MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE
AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT
X
X
X
X
X
X
Instead of restricting the general scope
of the call, a matrix was prepared, indicating the relevance of the different topics
for the different countries. This choice
was preferred to the one that would have
decided common topics supported by all
the members.
Common eligibility criteria
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Some criteria were those common to any
call for research proposals, such as the
necessity for proposals to fit the formal
requirements for proposal submission,
to be of relevance in terms of the topics
outlined in the call, etc.
One was more specific to ARIMNet.
Each project proposal had to involve
researchers from at least three member
countries of the ARIMNet project providing funds for the call, of which at least
one had to be from the EU and one from
Associated or Mediterranean Partner
Countries. Additional researchers from
other countries were welcome in a project consortium, but had to fund their own
contribution to the research project.
Evaluation and selection process
The evaluation and selection process began after
the eligibility of proposals was checked by the
call office and call board, where all the funding
agencies were represented. This evaluation and
selection process ran from October 2011 to February 2012. In total, 86 research proposals were
submitted for funding and of them, 79 were declared eligible and submitted to scientific evaluation.
were ranked. The results were transmitted to the
call board, which then selected the proposals on
the basis of this ranking and according to the national priorities of each funding agency. Finally, 10
projects were selected for funding representing a
total funding of €4.93 million.
Reserved budget per country before
project selection (€5.46m)
Tunisia
The evaluation was completed by an international committee of eleven high-level scientists (one
from each country represented in the call), covering the range of scientific expertise needed and
external referees.
When possible, evaluation committee members
assigned two Mediterranean referees and two international ones for each of the eligible proposals.
On the basis of the expertise of external referees
and its own collective judgement, the evaluation
committee classified the proposals in three categories: A, B and C. In the A category, proposals
Analysis of
the submitted
research
proposals
5%
The 79 eligible projects involved from three to
eleven countries (average: 4.4 countries per project).
6%
France
2%
7%
Turkey
18%
Cyprus
9%
31%
0%
4%
Egypt
10%
Greece
9%
4%
Algeria
18%
9%
8%
5%
Spain
Italy
1%
3%
Morocco
18%
7%
8%
15%
Israel
Size of consortium (number of projects with 3 to 8 ARIMNet countries participating)
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30
25
20
15
10
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Size of the consortia
of submitted proposals
Reserved budget per country after
project selection (€4.82m)
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Percentage of the proposals that include the country as partner (blue),
the country as coordinator (red)
80%
70%
60%
Home country of researchers
involved in the submitted proposals
The different countries concerned by the call are
well represented in the proposals submitted. The
Italian and French teams were the most numerous: 72% of submitted proposals involved Italian
researchers and 65% French researchers.
50%
40%
30%
20%
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Topics and themes covered
The distribution of submitted proposals among
the three topics of the scope of the call was unequal: about 65% of the proposals concerned the
first topic : Production systems and their components (purple in the graph), 25% the second
topic : Food chain from production to distribution
(orange in the graph) and 10% the third topic :
Landscape and resource use for agricultural and
environmental purposes (green in the graph). Nevertheless, a lot of projects, mainly linked to the
first topic, also sought to investigate issues covered by the second and third topics.
The call was focused on the main challenges facing Mediterranean agriculture. Therefore, the
proposals were generally multidisciplinary. The
field of disciplines represented was large: from
genetic to social sciences.
Among the sub-topics addressed, the main one is
plant health. This topic mobilised several consortia, proposing projects covering a large number of
pests or diseases that are significant for several
species, most of them in the fruit and vegetables
sector.
The adaptation of agricultural production systems to drought was one of the other main topics
addressed, through different approaches: understanding the physiological mechanisms, plant
breeding and selection, and improving the technical processes of production and irrigation. The
issue of water use efficiency was addressed at the
farm level but also at a larger scale . Several projects concerned livestock systems, either cereallivestock systems or pastoral systems. Food safety was also addressed. Some projects concerned
the enhancement of local biodiversity and specific
Mediterranean species. Finally, a few others dealt
with general aspects of competition for resource
use. The ten funded projects illustrate the diversity of topics covered by the call.
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Topics of the submitted proposals
Water management
7%
Land-use, productivity
climate change
4%
Plant health,
pests and diseases
in the fruit and veg.
18%
Food quality
and processing
14%
Cereals and
legumes,
drought
resistance,
productivity
12%
Food safety
11%
Livestock systems,
animal production
14%
Water use efficiency,
improving cropping
techniques for water
and soil protection
Valorization of
13%
biodiversity, mediterranean
local plant species
7%
Topic 1. Production systems and their components
Topic 2. Food chain from production to distribution
Topic 3. Landscape and resource use for agricultural
and environmental purposes
Topics covered by the selected projects
Food safety
(SAFEMED)
10%
Plant health,
pests and diseases
in the fruit and veg.
(SWIPE, PoH-MED,
PESTOLIVE)
30%
Water management
(ARIDWASTE)
10%
Livestock systems,
animal production
(DoMEsTIc, CLIMED)
20%
Cereals and legumes,
drought resistance,
productivity
(REFORMA, MEDILEG)
20%
Water use efficiency,
improving cropping
techniques for water
and soil protection
(APMed)
10%
Topic 1. Production systems and their components
Topic 2. Food chain from production to distribution
Topic 3. Landscape and resource use for agricultural
and environmental purposes
Projects funded
under the 2011 call
Acronym and title of the project
APMed
Apple and Peach in Mediterranean orchards –
Integrating tree water status and irrigation management for coping
with water scarcity and aphid control
ARIDWASTE
Development of specific agricultural practices with the use of recycled
wastes suitable for intensively cultivated Mediterranean areas under
degradation risk
Countries
(in bold, country of the coordinator)
France, Israel, Italy, Morocco, Spain
Greece, Israel, Italy, Spain
CLIMED
The future of Mediterranean Livestock Farming Systems: Opportunity
and efficiency of Crops – Livestock Integration
France, Morocco, Egypt
DOMESTIC
Mediterranean biodiversity as a tool for the sustainable development
of the small ruminant sector: from traditional knowledge to innovation
Greece, France, Cyprus, Morocco,
MEDILEG
Breeding, agronomic and biotechnological approaches for reintegration
and revalorisation of legumes in Mediterranean agriculture
Spain, Morocco, France, Italy, Tunisia,
Portugal, Egypt, Algeria
PESTOLIVE
Contribution of olive history for the management of soil-borne parasites
in the Mediterranean Basin
France, Greece, Morocco, Spain,
Tunisia, Turkey
POHMED
Potato Health - Managed for Efficiency and Durability
France, Algeria, Morocco, Egypt
REFORMA
Resilient, water- and energy-Efficient FORage and feed crops for
Mediterranean Agricultural systems
Italy, France, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia,
United States
SAFEMED
Food safety regulations, market access and international competition
France, Italy, Morocco, Tunisia, Spain, Algeria
SWIPE
Predicting whitefly population outbreaks in changing environments
Israel, France, Spain, Greece, Italy, Turkey,
Switzerland, United States
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Context
The profitability of deciduous fruit orchards
in semi-arid zones, especially in southern
and eastern Mediterranean countries, depends on the availability of irrigation water
throughout the growing season. Studies of
water stress effects on growth have been
mostly conducted on annuals, focusing on
crop management and the physiological
and molecular mechanisms underpinning
water use efficiency. Unlike annuals, whose
life cycle only depends on current conditions
without investment in perennial structures,
fruit tree development in any year strongly
depends on the environmental conditions in
the preceding years. Still unanswered is the
scientific question of how the fruit tree uses
water to grow, flower, fruit and at the same
time develop buds for the next season. Also,
there is a crucial need for irrigation protocols
to manage severe and/or temporal reductions in water availability, keeping in mind
that water management techniques not only
modify growing and fruiting patterns, but
also pest dynamics. The drive towards sustainable agriculture by reduced inputs, especially of chemicals, strengthens the idea that
pest infestation has to be considered within
water management strategies. Our project
aims to contribute to develop sustainable
fruit production in a context of increasing
ecological and climatic stresses.
APMed,
Coordinator:
Pierre-Eric Lauri, Amélioration
Génétique et Adaptation des
Plantes méditerranéennes et Tropicales, Institut National de la
Recherche Agronomique (INRA),
France.
[email protected]
Partners:
• Plantes et Systèmes Horticoles
(PSH), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA),
France
• Northern R & D, MIGAL, Galilee
Technology Center - SME, Israel
• EcoPhysiology Group, Department of Agricultural Sciences,
University of Bologna, Italy
• Protection des Plantes et Environnement (PPE), Moulay Ismail
Faculty of sciences Meknes, Morocco,
• Irrigation technology, Institut
de Recerca i Tecnologia Agroalimentàries (Cataluña), Spain
Duration:
04/2012-03/2015
Grant:
€634,618
Objectives
APMed is centred on two high added-value fruits grown in most Mediterranean
countries, apple and peach, to gain knowledge on how fruit trees adapt to water scarcity and what are efficient means to improve
fruit production in these contexts, including
the possible reduction of aphid infestations.
We share the opinion that growing fruit trees
in dry zones cannot be solved by disconnected disciplines, thus we mobilise different
research competences to address scientific
and applied aspects. First, we characterise
ecophysiological mechanisms (at leaf and
stem levels) underlying resistance or tolerance to drought, aiming to improve breeding and selection schemes for drought-tolerant cultivars and rootstocks that maintain
Keywords:
Fruit tree, ecophysiology, water
management, aphid infestation,
modelling
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Apple and Peach in Mediterranean
orchards – Integrating tree water
status and irrigation management
for coping with water scarcity and
aphid control
commercial productivity at a lower water
use. Second, we assess several horticultural
practices to optimise water use in orchards:
tree training to optimise leaf-fruit ratio; coloured hail-nets to combine crop protection
with control of tree vigour and water saving
capacity; irrigation scheduling strategies
building on Regulated Deficit Irrigation (RDI)
concepts to avoid excessive water percolation below the root zone and losses to the
atmosphere by surface evaporation. These
latter concepts have been developed by
members of this consortium. A third aspect
focuses on the relationships between plant
development and aphid infestations. Indeed,
plant development is altered by both water
stress and aphids, but reciprocally aphid
infestation is altered by plant development,
leading to non-linear responses of aphid
infestations to tree water status and consequently to irrigation management.
Workplan
APMed activities spans five Work Packages
bringing together five countries: France as
coordinator, Israel, Italy, Morocco and Spain.
Seven research teams are involved with
complementary competences in irrigation
scheduling in deciduous fruit tree orchards
(Israel, Morocco, Spain), fruit tree ecophysiology (France, Italy), and pest infestation
(France, Morocco). Furthermore, growers
and researchers collaborate through already
established networks in all countries, which
includes experimental centres and extension
services.
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ARIDWASTE,
Development of specific agricultural
practices with the use of recycled
wastes suitable for intensively cultivated Mediterranean areas under
degradation risk
Coordinator:
Victor Kavvadias, Soil Science
Institute of Athens, Hellenic Agricultural Organization “DEMETER”,
Greece.
[email protected]
Objectives
The overall objective of the ARIDWASTE project is to research, advance and finally develop alternative low-cost and environmentally friendly agricultural practices across
the Mediterranean basin with the use of
treated agricultural wastes (AW) by recycling
nutrients and water from treated agricultural
waste also taking advantage of the beneficial, unique properties of natural zeolites.
ARIDWASTE’s strategic impacts also focus on
the reduction in crop management running
costs, strengthening the linkage between
the agricultural management sector and the
marketing sector, promoting the competitiveness of Mediterranean agricultural products and profits while contributing to the
protection of health, the improvement of the
quality of life, environmental sustainability
and food safety, mainly at waste disposal
areas.
Partners:
• MIGAL, Galilee Technology Center, Israel
• Centro di Sperimentazione e Assistenza Agricola (CERSAA), Italy
• Centro de Edafología y Biología
Aplicada del Segura - Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científiicas, (CEBAS-CSIC), Spain
Duration:
06/2012-05/2015
Grant:
317 000€
Keywords:
Application practices, recycled
wastes, degradation, soil quality,
sustainability
Project website:
www.aridwaste.gr
Workplan
For this, ARIDWASTE includes specific tools and carefully designed actions to guarantee the sustainable use of treated AW in
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agriculture and to protect and improve
seriously degraded cultivated soils in the
Mediterranean area, such as: a comprehensive critical review of AW management
strategies; quality tests of treated wastes in
terms of their physicochemical properties,
soil quality parameters, phytotoxicity and
plant response; field tests in selected areas,
consisting of a representative farming community in different agro-ecological zones; a
quantitative and qualitative impact analysis
of AW application; development of an integrated scenario for the sustainable use of
the treated wastes in extensive crop production providing site-specific diagnoses up to
recommendations available for end users,
the agribusiness sector and policy makers in
order to select as appropriate for their local
conditions. Testing areas allow joint team
efforts in assembling information for knowledge gaps, testing and refining methods and
technologies, and interaction with the ultimate beneficiaries of the project activities.
This coherent proposal unites top-level interdisciplinary scientific knowledge, expertise and know-how while the participants,
via an active cooperative role with stakeholders, will lead to consumer-demand dissemination of the results and subsequently the
rapid take-up of ARIDWASTE’s innovative
outcomes..
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Context
Mediterranean livestock farming systems
need to adapt with multiple and complex
changes in the past and present history of
the zone. This project aims to assess the
technical, economic and socio-ecological
viability of crop-livestock systems in the
Mediterranean context to help farmers, local communities, researchers and decision
makers in their thinking on future planning
for Mediterranean livestock and in designing
priorities, rules and policies that could better deal with the socio-environmental issues
linked with demographic and land pressure,
increasing demand and strong international
competition.
Objectives
The main objectives are: 1) identifying efficient crop-livestock systems to better utilise water, soil, crop residues, and rangeland
forages (resource utilisation efficiency) and
increasing production to meet the rising
local demand of safe animal products (socio-economic efficiency); 2) assessing their
adaptive capacities, vulnerability and flexibility faced with current stresses/changes; 3)
assessing their socio-ecological co-viability
and resilience with regard to demographic
growth and in a historical perspective; and 4)
developing future scenarios and priorities for
livestock development in the Mediterranean
context in order to increase their capabilities. The project strengthens collaboration
and interdisciplinary between and within national teams in the Mediterranean through
sharing research methods and databases.
CLIMED,
Coordinator:
Véronique Alary, UMR SELMET
(Tropical and Mediterranean livestock systems), International
Centre of Agricultural Research
for Development (CIRAD), France,
veronique.
[email protected]
Partners:
• Institut Agronomique et Vétérinaire Hassan II (IAV Hassan II),
Department of Animal Production
and Biotechnology, Morocco
• APRI/ ARC, Sheep & Goats Research Unit, Egypt
• UMR SELMET (Tropical and Mediterranean livestock systems)
and GREEN (Renewable resources
and environment management),
Institut National de la Recherche
Agronomique (INRA), France
• UMR Espace-Dev, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
(IRD), France
Duration:
09/2012-09/2015
Grant:
€472,000
Keywords:
Livestock, ecological intensification, adaptation, vulnerability,
socio-ecological system
Workplan
To achieve this, the project proposes: (i)
identifying, characterising and analysing
the efficiency of crop-livestock systems
from pastoral and agro-pastoral zones to
more intensified areas linked with resource
management; (ii) assessing their adaptive
capacities to change and socio-ecological
sustainability linked with climatic stresses,
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The future of Mediterranean Livestock Farming Systems: Opportunity and efficiency of Crops – Livestock Integration
natural capital/resources, access to technology, social and political changes (including
demography, land tenure, production incentives etc.); (iii) elaborating future scenarios
for Mediterranean livestock systems in a research approach based on sharing methods
and data between the national teams. The
current or potential sustainable intensification processes are generally complex in
one agro-ecological zone and depend both
on exogenous opportunities (market, incentives, available techniques, knowledge and
experience etc.) and on endogenous capacities and representations (capital assets,
land access, livelihoods). The main challenge
and opportunity of the project is to integrate
social and biological sciences within the
same framework to develop an integrative
and interdisciplinary analytical framework
for assessing the socio-ecological resilience
of crop-livestock systems in the Mediterranean.
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Context
In the Mediterranean region, rangeland and
pastoral systems considered to be the traditional way of farming contain elements
that can prove to be of high value under
new conditions related to the need to protect the environment and biodiversity and
with consumer demands for safe, quality
products. These production systems utilising local genetic resources adapted to the
production environment could increase their
profitability through the modernisation of
the production systems and by enhancing
the means of commercialisation of the products.
Objectives
The project aims to investigate the factors
that influence the sustainability of pastoral
and rangeland production systems in the
participating countries, focusing on sheep
and goat production, and examine adaptation strategies to the socio-economic and
environmental challenges.
DoMEsTIc,
Coordinator:
Christina Ligda, General Direction
of Agricultural Research Hellenic
Agricultural Organisation, DEMETER, Greece.
[email protected]
Partners:
• LRDE, Institut National de la
Recherche Agronomique, France
• Animal Production, Agricultural
Research Institute, Nicosia, Cyprus
• Feeding, Qualification and
Environnement in Animal Production, Institut Agronomique et
Vétérinaire Hassan II, Morocco
Duration:
05/2012-10/2014
Grant:
€175,909
Keywords:
Livestock, ecological intensification, adaptation, vulnerability,
socio-ecological system
Project website:
Workplan
www.arim-domestic.net
Towards this aim, the following aspects aspects are examined: the different components of the production systems; the role of
local authorities and the organisation at territorial level; and the distribution of products
through the supply chain, the trends in the
market and the role of the different stakeholders.
Tools will be developed to support the sustainable development of production systems
contributing to the increase of the value of
the breeds, their commercial enhancement,
their uptake in agriculture and their positive
impact in rural economies.
The plan will allow us to underline positive
synergies in breed-product interactions. The
aim is to enhance the interactions between
local genetic resources and quality products
by reviewing the existing strategies and
supporting the development of new ones.
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Mediterranean biodiversity as a tool
for the sustainable development
of the small ruminant sector: from
traditional knowledge to innovation
The transverse analyses of specific case studies in the partner countries in a comparative way will make it possible to construct
specific guidelines to promote breeding
programmes and valorisation strategies for
local breeds. The outputs will provide practical frameworks for the valorisation of local
genetic resources and the successful uptake
of their products into the markets
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Context
and objectives
The goal of the project is to promote grain
legume cultivation in Mediterranean
countries. A collaborative interdisciplinary
initiative is proposed to promote grain legume cultivation in Mediterranean countries.
It includes biotechnologists, agronomists,
plant breeders, crop physiologists, organic
chemists and phytopathologists from Algeria, Egypt, France, Italy, Morocco, Portugal,
Spain and Tunisia with the aim of evaluating
currently and previously grown grain legume
varieties for characteristics of importance to
sustainable agriculture and to apply novel
tools to integrate genetic resistance with
other control practises in a concerted manner. Priority is given to the combination of
increased yield and resistance to biotic and
abiotic stresses, epidemiology and integrated management thus allowing for the production of leguminous crops of high value
in crop rotations with low inputs and stable
yields.
Workplan
Project activities include:
Evaluation of current and historic chickpea,
common bean, faba bean, lentil and pea
germplasm for characteristics of importance
to sustainable agriculture in order to define
the desired phenotypes suitable for each
Mediterranean area.
MEDILEG,
Coordinator:
Diego Rubiales, Consejo Superior
Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC),
Institure for Sustainable Agriculture, Córdoba, Spain
[email protected]
Partners:
• Centre Régional de la Recherche
Agronomique de Rabat, Institut
National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Morocco
• UMR IGEPP, Institut National
de la Recherche Agronomique
(INRA), France
• UMR LEG, Institut National de la
Recherche Agronomique (INRA),
France
• DISSPAPA Unit, Univ. of Naples
Federico II, Italy
• Field Crop Laboratory, Institut
National de la Recherche Agronomique de Tunisie (INRAT), Tunisia
• Center of Beja, Regional Field
Crop Research (CRRGC), Tunisia
• Department of Agronomy and
Plant Breeding, Institut Agronomique et Vétérinaire Hassan II
(IAV), Morocco
• Plant Cell Biotechnology Laboratory, ITQB, Univ. Nova Lisboa,
Portugal
• Sakha Agricultural Research Station, Agricultural Research Center
(FCR-ARC), Egypt
• Department of Botany, Ecole
Nationale Supérieure Agronomique (ENSA), Algeria
Duration:
08/2012- 07/2015
Grant:
€542,945
Keywords:
legumes, breeding, crop protection, stress resistance, epidemiology
Project website:
www.ias.csic.es/medileg
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Breeding, agronomic and
biotechnological approaches for
reintegration and re-valorisation
of legumes in Mediterranean
agriculture
Development of new and reliable screening
methods for the most relevant biotic and
abiotic stresses in order to identify new
sources of resistance and characterise the
resistance mechanisms. The resulting germplasm will be of great interest in future breeding programmes.
Identification of new QTLs for yield and resistance/tolerance to stresses in pea. Studies
on field stability of QTLs across diverse locations and genetic backgrounds will allow the
development of specific markers for pyramiding and rapid screening.
Identification of primary inoculum sources
explaining the recurrence of diseases and
evaluation of new combinations of control
methods (architectural features, cultural
practices, resistance, etc.) for the management of the major legume diseases.
Development of integrated management of
fungal diseases and broomrapes using fungal
and plant metabolites.
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Context and
objectives
PESTOLIVE (Contribution of olive history for
the management of soil-borne parasites in
the Mediterranean basin) aims to produce
knowledge and tools for a new and efficient
management of plant-parasitic nematodes
(PPN) and plant-pathogenic fungi (PPF) in
olive (Olea europaea L.) cropping systems
and nurseries, while reducing the use of pesticides. Because of the anthropic continuum
from Olea post-glacial refuges to oleasters (domestication) and then to olive trees
(breeding and cropping), the fragmentation
of the PPN and PPF communities and of their
natural enemies could explain the scattered
diversity of control techniques (especially
resistant rootstocks, biocontrol, cropping
strategies) developed and applied all around
the Mediterranean basin. PESTOLIVE is a
new approach because it is based on i) the
analysis and the management of parasite diversity (ecology of communities) instead of
controlling emblematic species (population
approach) and ii) the involvement of knowledge about the historical co-adaptation
of soil-borne parasite and natural enemies
communities to olive tree domestication
(origins and past assemblages) and breeding that follows the history of O. europaea
around the Mediterranean basin.
Workplan
PESTOLIVE is broken down into four scientific work packages (WP). In WP1 (olive domestication and breeding), the analysis of
the wild and cropped olive diversity (phylogeography and population genetics) all
around the Mediterranean basin associated
with domestication history and breeding is a
prerequisite to understanding co-evolutionary patterns between pathogens and the
olive tree. In WP2 (response of soil-borne
organisms to domestication and breeding),
the spatial distribution of PPN, PPF and associated antagonists is explored to investigate i) co-phylogeographic correspondences
between plant and parasite diversities and
ii) life-trait genetic variation involved in
community assemblages forced by anthro-
PESTOLIVE,
Coordinator:
Thierry Mateille, UMR Centre de
Biologie pour la Gestion des Populations, Institut de Recherche pour
le Developpement (IRD), France.
[email protected]
Partners:
• UMR Evolution et Diversité Biologique,
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
(CNRS), Université Paul Sabatier, France
• UMR Amélioration Génétique et Adaptation des Plantes Méditerranéennes et Tropicales, Institut National de la Recherche
Agronomique, France
• Plant Protection Institute, National Agricultural Research Foundation, Greece
• Integrated Pest Management Department,
Istituto Agronomico Mediterraneo Bari, Italy
• Istituto per la Protezione delle Piante,
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy
• Département de Protection des Plantes,
Institut Agronomique et Vétérinaire Hassan
II, Morocco
• Laboratoire d’Amélioration Génétique des
Plantes, Institut National de la Recherche
Agronomique, Morocco
• Laboratoire Biotechnologie de la Valorisation et la Protection des Agroressources,
Université Cadi Ayyad Marrakech Faculté
des Sciences et Techniques El Gueliz, Morocco
• Laboratoire Biotechnologie et Valorisation
des Ressources Naturelles, Université Ibn
Zohr Faculté des Sciences d’Agadir, Morocco
• Laboratoire Diversité et Conservation des
Systèmes Biologiques, Université Abdelmalek Essaadi Faculté des Sciences de Tétouan, Morocco
• Laboratorio de Fitonematología-Interacciones, Instituto de Agricultura Sostenible,
Spain
• Instituto Andaluz de Investigación y Formación Agraria, Spain
• Laboratoire de Phytiatrie, Institut National
Agronomique de Tunisie, Tunisia
• Laboratoire Ressources et Amélioration
Génétiques de l’Olivier, du Pistachier et de
l’Amandier, Institut de l’Olivier, Tunisia
• Unité Biotechnologie et Protection des
Plants, Institut Supérieur Agronomique,
Tunisia
• Department of Nematology and Molecular
Biology, Bati Akdeniz Agricultural Research
Institute, Turkey
• Olive Growing Technology Department,
Olive Research Institute, Turkey
Duration:
09/2012-08/2015
Grant:
€575,354
Keywords:
Breeding, Domestication, Management, Olive, Root parasites
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Contribution of olive history for
the management of soil-borne
parasites in the Mediterranean
basin
pisation. In WP3 (response of soil-borne
organisms to plant-resistance (ancestral &
cultivars)), resistance against PPN and PPF
is tackled in order to look for new resistance
sources and to assess the durability of the
resistance in terms of time remanence and of
parasite diversity conservation. In WP4 (response of soil-borne organisms to cropping
systems (low vs high inputs)), the capacity to
manage PPN and PPF communities in a soil
diversity conservation approach is assessed
considering the very large range of olive production systems in Mediterranean countries.
PESTOLIVE is managed and coordinated in a
specific WP (WP0, project management). It
involves 18 research and teaching organisations from seven Mediterranean countries in
order to promote international multidisciplinary collaboration, training co-supervision
and shared technical platforms within the
consortium. Attachments with national and
international councils (IOC, for example) will
guaranty communication with local producer
organisations in order to fit with olive and oil
production constraints vs implementing production strategies with innovative methods
for soil-borne pest management.
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Context
Potato is a major food and trade crop on both
sides of the Mediterranean Sea. Its vegetative mode of propagation and high economic value foster continuous exchange of
living material, long production cycles, and
severe losses to microbial diseases during
vegetation and storage. This vulnerability is
enhanced by the diversity of the production
systems in which the crop is grown, and by
changes in the geographical distribution of
emerging or re-emerging parasites resulting
from climate change and the seed trade. Developing sustainable potato protection strategies, with low or no pesticide applications,
is therefore a major challenge to improve the
economic, environmental and human performance of potato production worldwide.
Objectives
The PoH-MED project aims at enhancing
the sustainability of potato protection in the
Mediterranean area, through three complementary working directions: 1) to infer local
adaptations and/or population movements
of major potato fungal and bacterial pathogens by unravelling their distribution, polymorphisms and population structures, 2) to
develop, and assess non-pesticide control
methods (resistant cultivars, plant defence
stimulators, agronomic strategies) identified
during the project or in earlier collaborative
work, and to combine them through a systemic analysis into innovative crop protection
strategies, and 3) to disseminate key findings
through participatory actions.
PoH-MED,
Coordinator:
Didier Andrivon, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique
(INRA), Institut de Génétique,
Environnement et Protection des
Plantes, France.
[email protected]
Partners:
• ENSA El Harrach, Algeria
• Laboratoire
Microbiologie
Appliquée, Université Bejaia,
Algeria
• Microbiology Laboratory, Université Hassan 2, Faculté Sciences
et techniques, Morocco
• Molecular Biology Unit, Institut National de la Protection des
Végétaux, Algeria
• Fédération
Nationale
des
Producteurs de Plants de Pomme
de terre, France
• Centre National de Contrôle et
de Certification, Algeria
• Université Paris VI- Jussieu,
Laboratoire
Electrophysiologie
des Membranes, France
• Central Administration for Seed
Certification, Egypt
• Groupement National Interprofessionnel des Semences, France
• Institut Technique des Cultures
Maraîchères et Industrielles,
Amirouche Fatiha, Algeria
Duration:
01/2013-12/2015
Grant:
Workplan
To reach these goals, PoH-MED brings together a multi-faceted consortium involving
public research institutions, universities and
agricultural high schools, official extension
services and growers’ organisations. It will
fill major knowledge gaps by providing multidisciplinary data much needed for an adequate understanding of the changes occurring on both sides of the Mediterranean in
€486,000
Keywords:
Potato, Disease management,
System sustainability, Biodiversity
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Potato Health - Managed for
Efficiency and Durability
populations of severe potato pathogens, and
will disseminate innovative plant protection
technologies towards extension services and
advanced growers through collaborative
demonstration platforms designed and run
by end users themselves, as well as through
academic and practical training of undergraduate students by participating institutions.
R EFO R MA
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Context
Crop-livestock and feed systems have huge
importance for Mediterranean regions in satisfying the increasing population’s demand
for animal products (milk, eggs, meat), to increase the economic stability of smallholders
and to produce typical animal products with
high added-value, while contributing in all
cases to sustainable farming, environmental protection and efficient nutrient cycling.
These systems are threatened, however, by
the marked insufficiency of high-protein
feedstuff, the over-exploitation of forage
resources, the increasing costs and/or the
decreasing availability of irrigation water
and mineral fertilisers, and the increasing
drought and heat stress arising from climate
change.
Objectives
and workplan
The development of resilient, water-and
energy-efficient forage and feed legume
crops could definitely alleviate all of these
constraints. This is the objective of the present project, which unites nine research institutions from Italy, France, Algeria, Morocco,
Tunisia and the USA in a closely integrated
manner to develop: 1) lucerne varieties with
greater tolerance to severe drought, salinity,
heat and grazing than the available varieties;
2) pea varieties with greater drought tolerance than the available varieties, targeted
at grain and forage production; 3) cost-efficient marker-assisted selection procedures
REFORMA,
Coordinator:
Paolo Annicchiarico, Consiglio per
la Ricerca e la sperimentazione
in Agricoltura (CRA), Centro di
Ricerca per le Produzioni Foraggere e Lattiero-Casearie, Italy.
[email protected]
Partners:
• Institut National de la Recherche
Agronomique (INRA), Unité de Recherche Pluridisciplinaire Prairies
et Plantes Fourragères, Lusignan,
France
Agronomique (INRA), Unité Mixte
de Recherches en Génétique et
Ecophysiologie des Légumineuses
à Graines, Dijon, France
Agronomique (INRA), Centres Régionaux de Marrakech et de Rabat, Morocco
• Institut National de Recherche
Agronomique (INRA), Division des
Agrosystèmes de l’Est, Algeria
• Ecole Nationale Supérieure
d’Agronomie (ENSA), Algeria
• Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Istituto per il Sistema Produzione Animale in Ambiente Mediterraneo, Sassari, Italy
• The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Forage Improvement Division, Ardmore, United States
• Institut des Régions Arides (IRA),
Médenine, Tunisia
Duration:
09/2012-08/2015
Grant:
€568,727
Keywords:
Drought tolerance, Forage crops,
Genomics, Grain Legumes, Plant
breeding
Project website:
http://reforma.entecra.it
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Resilient, water- and energyEfficient FORage and feed crops for
Mediterranean Agricultural systems
for pea drought tolerance, lucerne tolerance
to severe drought, salinity and grazing, and
lucerne compatibility with grass companions
(whose implementation by each partner will
be favoured by a molecular breeding training
workshop); 4) ecological breeding strategies
for lucerne and pea; 5) lucerne-based and
pea-based forage crops, taking into account
the legume plant types, the associated grass
or cereal species, the level of site drought
stress, the acceptability by farmers, the forage quality and the target utilisation. Optimal diets including innovative forage crops
or pea grain will be defined for different animal species and production levels in a final
workshop and promoted, along with optimal
cultivation methods, in a freely available
electronic handbook. This and other dissemination actions will spread the project results
among farmers and other stakeholders.
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Context
and objectives
The SAFEMED Project aims to analyse the
conditions for international co-regulation of
food safety between the northern and southern Mediterranean. It consists of analysing
the structure of the competition between
supply chains of both sides and examining
the possibilities for the coordination of public and private food safety strategies. The
project is developing a multi-criteria analysis
that makes it possible to conciliate:
(i) The imperative of food safety, to ensure
European consumers’ health via the provision of safe imports, and, at the same
time, the health of southern Mediterranean
consumers, taking advantage of the evolution of good agricultural practices at the
international level.
(ii) Producers’ market access, given that
agrifood exports represent an important
factor in the economic development of southern countries.
(iii) Safe and fair competition among actors
of both the northern and southern sides to
avoid ‘sanitary dumping’ (derived from the
heterogeneity of food safety regulations in
different countries).
SAFEMED,
Coordinator:
Abdelhakim Hammoudi, Institut
National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Unité Alimentation et Sciences Sociales (ALISS),
France.
[email protected]
Partners:
• Université de Bologne, Dipartimento di Economia e Ingegneria
Agrarie, Italy
• Agronomic and Veterinary Institute, Morocco
• INAT, Département d’EconomieGestion Agricole et Agro-alimentaire, Tunisia
• Universidad de Almería, Departamento
de
Economía
Aplicada,Spain
• Ecole Nationale Supérieure
d’Agronomie, Laboratory of Food
Technology, Algeria
Duration:
09/2012-08/2015
Grant:
€548,545
Workplan
Food safety is considered as a public good,
in the sense that an under-provision of food
safety may be harmful to all stakeholders
(firms and consumers) and not only to those
responsible for this deficit. The project is built
by putting the emphasis on the characteristics of the economies of the two Mediterranean sides (by including three countries from
the northern side (Spain, France and Italy)
and three countries of the southern side
(Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia). An important
role is given to commercialisation and intermediate sectors, in addition to the production sector, by focusing notably on empirical
works on fruit and vegetable supply chains.
The value sharing between intermediate
actors localised in importing countries and
local stakeholders is taken into account as an
indicator of the equity of north/south trade
relationships.
Keywords:
food safety, regulation, supply
chain organisation, consumer
health, market access
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Food safety regulations, market
access and international
competition
As for the methodology, SAFEMED studies
are based on surveys and the creation of
databases with the implementation of experimental markets. More specifically, information is collected on production system
organisation, food safety investment costs
(specific investments, and costs of compliance with food safety norms and private
standards set up by importers and retailers),
and consumer behaviour towards sanitary
crises according to the available information
at the time of purchase. Technical-economics studies (integrating microbiological and
toxicological analysis) aim at measuring the
actual sanitary risk and the related prevention cost, in the framework of cost-benefit
analysis. Furthermore, based on the recent
developments of the theories of industrial
economics, international trade economics
and structural econometrics, the aim of the
project is to identify the optimal co-regulation policies, taking into account the strategic behaviour of commercialisation and
import firms.
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Context
Both climate change and global trade are important drivers of changes in the abundance
and distribution of insect pests. Whiteflies
(Homoptera: Aleyrodidae) are important
plant pests and virus vectors in many agricultural systems worldwide. Among them,
the sweet potato whitefly, Bemisia tabaci
(Gennadius) is considered the most devastating pest of vegetables, ornamentals and
agronomic crops throughout the tropical
and subtropical regions of the world because
it can transmit more than 200 species of
plant viruses. Previous distributions of the
species were limited to regions between the
30th latitudes but over the past two decades
it has invaded every continent in the world
except Antarctica. Based on climate models,
B. tabaci populations are expected to expand
to regions where increasing temperatures
will eliminate frosts, allowing year round
breeding. Due to the extreme polyphagy of
the species, the effects of such changes will
probably be profound and may lead to substantial ecosystem-wide changes.
Objectives
Many arthropods host one or more inherited bacterial symbionts, the phenotypes of
which have important implications for ecologically based pest management strategies.
The overall goal of this proposal is to develop
novel strategies for reducing the direct and
indirect damage inflicted by B. tabaci. It aims
to predict the evolution of B. tabaci populations around the Mediterranean, from which
diagnostic and preventive measures can be
derived.
SWIPE,
Coordinator:
Einat Zchori-Fein, Volcani Center,
Agricultural Research Organization (ARO), Israel .
[email protected]
Partners:
• LBBE, University Lyon 1, France
• Dept. of Evolutionary Genetics,
Cavanilles Institute for Biodiversity
and Evolutionary Biology, University of Valencia, Spain
• Dept. of Environmental and Natural Resources, University of Western
Greece, Greece
• Dept. of Entomology, The Hebrew
University of Jerusalem, Israel
• Portici Unit of IPP, CNR-Istituto
per la Protezionedelle Piante, Italy
• Laboratory of Entomology and
Agricultural Zoology, National Agricultural Research Foundation, Plant
Protection Institute of Heraklion,
Greece
• Dept. of Plant Protection, Ankara
University, Turkey
• Dept. Of Entomology, University
of Arizona, United States
• Laboratory Molecular Entomology, University of Crete, Greece
• Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Agrarias (Valencian Agricultural Research Institute), Spain
• Plant health Research Dept., Ankara Plant Protection Central Research Institute,Turkey
• Dept. of Plant Protection, Cukurova University, Turkey
• Dept. of Geography, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Duration:
07/2012-06/2015
Workplan
To achieve these goals the following objectives have been set: (i) determine the geographic distribution of B. tabaci biotypes,
their population genetic structure and symbiotic complement around the Mediterranean basin in light of climatic changes; (ii)
determine B. tabaci invasion routes within
Grant:
€500,500
Keywords:
Bacterial
symbiont,
Bemisia,
biological control, climate change,
pest invasion
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Predicting whitefly population
outbreaks in changing
environments
the Mediterranean basin; (iii) determine the
respective influence of nuclear and symbiotic variations on stress resistance in B. tabaci;
(iv) model the influence of climate change on
B. tabaci biotype/population outbreaks; (v)
establish a network of researchers. The research conducted involve the use of diverse
methods including field studies, molecular
biology, bioinformatics, analyses of international databases and advanced computer
programs. In order to begin preparing now
for the upcoming challenges of our changing
environment, we will combine established
research expertise in climate change assessment and environmental system modelling
with insects and symbionts ecology, behaviour and population genetics for allowing
the necessary incorporation of pest risk assessment and simulation models into comprehensive management planning systems
of both natural and agricultural ecosystems.
ARIMNet2, objectives
and workplan
ARIMNet has been essential in allowing us to accumulate knowledge on the priorities of the Mediterranean research area and to develop scientific
cooperation around the Mediterranean basin.
ARIMNet2 is seeking to deepen and ensure the
continued cooperation between Mediterranean
countries by enlarging the consortium to 24 partners from 15 countries (nine from the EU, two
Associated Countries and four Mediterranean Partner Countries) and by undertaking actions to push
further the achievements of ARIMNet.
ARIMNet2 has the following objectives:
• To develop an integrated strategic research
agenda (ISRA) describing key priorities for European and Mediterranean Partner Countries in the
field of Mediterranean agricultural research and
innovation (WP1). The ISRA will cover short, medium and long term needs, and common issues of
concern to the participating partner states. The
ISRA will be used to strengthen the cooperation
between national research programmes, together
with agreements on how the research agenda is
to be implemented and reviewed. It will be done
taking into account complementarities with other
initiatives, in particular the Joint Research Programming Initiative on Agriculture, Food Security
and Climate Change (FACCE-JPI) and INCO-NET
related projects (MEDSPRING and ERANETMED).
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• To consolidate the cooperation mechanism
initiated in ARIMNet through setting up two
new joint calls for transnational research projects (WP2) and the elaboration of guidelines for
monitoring research projects funded in joint calls
(WP3).
• To demonstrate the feasibility of joint activities in some areas relevant to the project and to
implement those that are jointly strategic. During
ARIMNet some crucial issues have been identified
with regards to capacity development, in particular the training of young researchers, mobility and
networking of researchers’ laboratories, and the
sharing of infrastructure and data. Among them,
ARIMNet 2 will develop pilot actions (WP4) to (i)
develop scientific exchanges between researchers and research groups in the Mediterranean,
(ii) strengthen the coordination and coherence
in research management between regional and
national institutions (universities and research
centres) and (iii) develop capacity building in
scientific methods, concepts and laboratory management.
• To foster the agricultural knowledge and innovation system to ensure that agricultural research
has an impact on the stakeholders of the Mediterranean basin and supports their economies
(WP5). This work package will mainly focus on the
integration of innovation, specifically through the
ideas about agricultural knowledge and innovation systems (AKIS) triggered inside the Standing
Committee on Agricultural Research Collaborative
Working Group and will extend this reflection to
the Mediterranean area.
ARIMNet2 partners:
an enlarged network
ARIMNet2 brings together 24 partners from
15 countries from the Northern, Southern
and Eastern Mediterranean. Among them
nine are members of the EU (Croatia, Cyprus,
France, Greece, Italy, Malta, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain), two are Associated Countries
(Turkey, Israel), and four are Mediterranean
Partner Countries (Algeria, Egypt, Morocco,
Tunisia).
The consortium represents a broad experience of the different situations found in
Mediterranean agriculture, offering possibilities for considering not only similarities but
also diversity in the agricultural and the food
systems.
The consortium has also been enlarged to
programme owners or programme managers which are interested in funding joint
activities, and in particular international
joint calls. Some of them have already participated financially in the 2011 ARIMNet call
(ANR, France and MESR, Algeria) and their
participation in ARIMNet2 is an expression of
their willingness to repeat this action. ASRT
(Ministry of Research, Egypt) and MESR
(Tunisia) have joined the consortium with
the same aim. This will increase the impact
of future calls implemented in ARIMNet2.
The responsibilities within the project are
shared between EU Member Countries and
Mediterranean Partner Countries
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Table - ARIMNet2 consortium
N°
1.
Participant organisation name
Short name
Country
INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE
AGRONOMIQUE
INRA-FR
FRANCE
ACADEMY OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
AND TECHNOLOGY ASRT
ASRT-EG
EGYPT
3.
AGENCE NATIONALE DE LA RECHERCHE
ANR-FR
FRANCE
4.
CENTRE DE COOPERATION INTERNATIONAL
EN RECHERCHE AGRONOMIQUE POUR
LE DEVELOPPEMENT
CIRAD-FR
CENTRE INTERNATIONAL DE HAUTES ETUDES
MEDITERRANEENNES-INSTITUT AGRONOMIQUE
MEDITERRANEEN DE MONTPELLIER
CIHEAM-IAMM
6.
FUNDACAO PARA A CIENCIA E A TECNOLOGIA
FCT-PT
7.
HELLINIKOS GEORGIKOS ORGANISMOS DIMITRA (HELLENIC AGRICULTURAL
ORGANIZATION - DEMETER)
DEMETER-GR
2.
5.
8.
FRANCE
PORTUGAL
GREECE
INSTITUT AGRONOMIQUE ET VETERINAIRE
HASSAN II
IAV-MA
MOROCCO
INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE
AGRONOMIQUE D’ALGERIE
INRAA-DZ
ALGERIA
INSTITUT ZA JADRANSKE KULTURE I
MELIORACIJU KRSA-SPLIT
KRS-HR
CROATIA
INSTITUTION DE LA RECHERCHE ET DE
L'ENSEIGNEMENT SUPERIEUR AGRICOLES
IRESA-TN
TUNISIA
INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACION
Y TECNOLOGIA AGRARIA Y ALIMENTARIA
INIA-ES
SPAIN
INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR AGRICULTURAL
RESEARCH IN THE DRY AREAS
ICARDA
14.
ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI ECONOMIA AGRARIA
INEA-IT
ITALY
15.
MINISTERE DE L'ENSEIGNEMENT SUPERIEUR
ET DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE
MESRS-DZ
ALGERIA
MINISTERO DELLE POLITICHE AGRICOLE
ALIMENTARI E FORESTALI
MIPAAF-IT
ITALY
MINISTRSTVO ZA IZOBRAZEVANJE, ZNANOST,
KULTURO IN SPORT
MIZS-SI
SLOVENIA
18.
MINISTRSTVO ZA KMETIJSTVO IN OKOLJE
MKO-SI
SLOVENIA
19.
MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND RURAL
DEVELOPMENT
MOARD-IL
ISRAEL
MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE, NATURAL
RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENT OF CYPRUS
ARI-CY
CYPRUS
MINISTRY OF FOOD AGRICULTURE
AND LIVESTOCK
GDAR-TR
TURKEY
MINISTRY OF HIGHER EDUCATION AND
SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
MESRT-TN
TUNISIA
23.
OFFICE OF THE PRIME MINISTER
MCST-MT
MALTA
24.
THE AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTER
ARC-EG
EGYPT
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
16.
17.
20.
21.
22.
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Perspectives:
towards Mediterranean
joint programming?
The ARIMNet consortium is pursuing long-term
and ambitious objectives and expects to contribute to really integrated Mediterranean joint
programming in the field of agricultural research.
It intends to contribute, through its concrete actions, to the preparation of stable and long-lasting
cooperation between Mediterranean countries.
The challenges that the Mediterranean area currently faces call for strong cooperation between
countries to find common actions to solve common problems. Agriculture is part of the problem
but also part of the solution. It has an important
role to play in terms of the management of the
environment and resources, in economic growth,
rural development and employment. Research
and innovation are needed to contribute to this
development and ARIMNet2 will work to enhance
the impact of the Mediterranean agricultural research system in these fields.
With the development of a common strategic
and scientific agenda, the launch of new calls and
joint activities for capacity building, ARIMNet2
will constitute a new and challenging step in building a sustainable Mediterranean network aimed
at enhancing interdisciplinary and innovative research to meet the societal challenges Mediterranean agricultural faces.
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Photo credits
Cover page: © P. Arragon- Ciheam
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This document was
realized in the frame
of the ARIMNet2
WP6, led by IRESA
(TN) and co-led by
INRA (FR), CIRAD
(FR) and MIZS (SI)
ARIMNet
A Network
for Agricultural Research
Coordinator contact details:
Florence JACQUET, INRA, France
[email protected]
Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique,
France
ARIMNet2 is supported by the European Commission
within the 7th Framework Programme
ARIMNet
A Network for
in the Mediterranean Area
Agriculture and food systems in the
Mediterranean basin face a number
of common problems related to
management of natural resources, in
particular soil and water, animal and
plant diseases and climate change
impact to the security and sustainability of agricultural production and
food systems. These issues need to
be identified and addressed through
stronger
scientific
cooperation
between the EU Members and other
countries of the Mediterranean area.
ARIMNet2, a network of funding
organizations and national research
institutions continuing the efforts of
ARIMNet1, plays a role in tackling
these common problems by promoting
coordination
of
national
research programmes and building
joint initiatives to fight fragmentation
and exploit synergies in the field of
Mediterranean agriculture and food
systems.
ARIMNet2 is an ERA-Net supported and funded by the 7th Framework Programme from
2014 to 2017. It is the second phase of the ARIMNet project that began in 2008.
In 2008, 13 partners from 12 Northern,
Southern and Eastern Mediterranean
countries launched the ARIMNet
initiative. In January 2014 the enlarged
network ARIMNet2 brought together
24 national funding agencies and
research institutions from 15 countries,
among them 9 are members of the EU
(Croatia, Cyprus, France, Greece, Italy,
Malta, Portugal, Slovenia, and Spain),
2 are Associated Countries (Turkey,
Israel), and 4 are Mediterranean
Partner Countries (Algeria, Egypt,
Morocco, and Tunisia).
Toward deeper cooperation
among research institutions,
researchers and stakeholders
• Implementing other pilot joint activities
in order to develop scientific exchanges
between researchers and capacity
building in research activities.
The Network identifies scientific priorities
and provides funding opportunities to
support transnational research projects that
address the challenges Mediterranean
countries are facing today in the field of food,
rural development, water and natural
resources.
• Fostering Agricultural Knowledge and
Innovation Systems (AKIS) in the Mediterranean in order to ensure that the
Agricultural Research will impact the
stakeholders of the Mediterranean basin
and support their economies.
• Developing an integrated strategic
research agenda (ISRA) setting up key
priorities in the field of Mediterranean
Agriculture Research and Innovation.
Find out more about ARIMNet and its
activities:
visit our webpage @www.arimnet2.net
Have a question:
write to us @ [email protected]
• Consolidating the cooperation mechaLike what you see:
nism initiated in ARIMNet through two
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novel joint calls for transnational research
projects and a common follow-up of
funded research projects and disseminaARIMNet is coordinated by Institut National de
tion of their results.
la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), France
ARIMNet
A Network for
stronger
scientific
cooperation
coordination
of
national
systems.
ARIMNet
A Network for
stronger
scientific
cooperation
coordination
of
national
systems.
resources.
resources.
activities:
Have a question:
activities:
Have a question:
ARIMNet
Un réseau de coordination
de la Recherche
Agronomique
en Méditerranée
L’agriculture des pays méditerranéens
est confrontée à des problèmes et
défis communs : gestion des
ressources naturelles, en particulier
sols et eau, santé animale et végétale et menaces du changement
climatique sur la sécurité alimentaire et la durabilité des systèmes de
production.
Ces enjeux nécessitent un effort de
coordination entre pays de la Région
pour identifier clairement les défis
puis les relever ensemble.
C’est l’objectif du projet ARIMNet,
un réseau d’agences de financement
et d’institutions de recherche agronomique des pays du pourtour
méditerranéen mobilisées pour promouvoir la coordination de leurs
activités de recherche nationales,
identifier des programmes de recherche conjoints et ainsi limiter
la dispersion des ressources et
exploiter les synergies possibles.
ARIMNet2 est un ERA-Net soutenu et financé par la Commission Européenne via le 7ème
Programme Cadre (FP7) de 2014 à 2017. C’est la seconde phase d’ARIMNet, après le
premier ERA-Net en place de 2008 à 2012.
13 partenaires de 12 pays du Nord,
du Sud et de l’Est de la Méditerranée
portent cette initiative depuis 2008.
En janvier 2014, le projet est entré
dans une seconde phase et a accueilli
de nouveaux partenaires. Le réseau
compte aujourd’hui 24 agences de
financement et institutions de
recherche agronomique provenant de
15 pays méditerranéens. Parmi eux,
9 sont membres de l’UE (Croatie,
Chypre, Espagne, France, Grèce, Italie,
Malte, Portugal et Slovénie), 2 sont des
Pays Associés (Turquie, Israël) et 4 sont
des Pays Partenaires Méditerranéens
(Algérie, Egypte, Maroc et Tunisie).
Vers une coopération renforcée
entre institutions de recherche,
chercheurs et acteurs
du développement
Le réseau ARIMNet identifie les priorités
scientifiques et propose des opportunités
de financement et de coopération dans le
domaine de la recherche agronomique.
Elles permettent aux chercheurs de travailler
ensemble dans une diversité de projets de
recherche transnationaux contribuant à
relever les défis sociétaux des pays méditerranéens, dans le champ de l’alimentation,
du développement rural, de la gestion de
l’eau et des ressources naturelles.
Les objectifs d’ARIMNet2 sont les suivants :
• Développer un agenda stratégique de
recherche décrivant les priorités
communes aux pays méditerranéens
partenaires pour la Recherche agronomique et l’Innovation en Méditerranée,
• Consolider les mécanismes de coopération initiés pendant la première phase du
projet ARIMNet via la mise en œuvre de
deux nouveaux appels à projets transnationaux de recherche ainsi que le suivi
des projets de recherche ainsi financés et
la diffusion de leurs résultats,
• Démontrer la faisabilité d’autres actions
pilotes conjointes, afin de développer des
échanges scientifiques entre chercheurs
en Méditerranée permettant le renforcement des capacités en recherche de
tous les pays.
• Favoriser le lien entre la recherche et
les systèmes de conseil et d'innovation
agricoles pour renforcer l’impact de la
recherche sur les économies du Bassin
Méditerranéen.
Pour en savoir plus :
www.arimnet2.net
Contact:
Florence JACQUET, Institut National de la
Recherche Agronomique (INRA), France
Coordinatrice du projet ARIMNet2
[email protected]
ARIMNet
de la Recherche
Agronomique
en Méditerranée
production.
ARIMNet
de la Recherche
Agronomique
en Méditerranée
production.
du développement
tous les pays.
Méditerranéen.
www.arimnet2.net
Contact:
[email protected]
du développement
tous les pays.
Méditerranéen.
www.arimnet2.net
Contact:
[email protected]
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