Result description
The threats posed by Climate Change, the continuously increasing pressure on agri-soils in order to fulfil food demand and the request in terms of environmental sustainability and products quality, requires advanced tools and methodologies for efficiently manage water resources and optimize agricultural and irrigations practices.
The new service named IRRICLIME, consists in a user friendly web mapping application able to spatially and temporally predict under climate change and seasonal long term forecast, the main soil/water budget variables for farmland and irrigation management.
Potential end-users and stakeholders interested in IRRICLIME are represented by single farmers, big agri-food industries, water resource and irrigation managers and authorities, water basin authorities and agri insurance firms.
Using the Cloud-web Climate Service IRRICLIME embedding the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) seasonal and climate forecast, GECOsistema, an Italian consultancy company has helped Romagna Land Reclamation and Irrigation Authority to make projections on the future supply of the water available to crops in Italy’s Castiglione district.
Predicting irrigation needs and planning better rotation and spatial distribution of crops can help irrigation managers to mitigate the threats posed by climate change.
The tool helped them to quantify the potential deficit or surplus of irrigation water and therefore evaluate investments in new infrastructures, improvement and adaptation technologies and practices.
Through IRRICLIME and Copernicus CSD Seasonal Forecast, the Romagna authority can also assess and identify more sustainable crop practices; quantify potential damage to crops and harvest under the current crop scheme and irrigation capability; and adapt irrigation of especially thirsty crops.
Addressing target audiences and expressing needs
- To raise awareness and possibly influence policy
- Grants and Subsidies
- Business partners – SMEs, Entrepreneurs, Large Corporations
- Financing Expertise
- Legal / IPR advise
- Expanding to more markets /finding new customers
- Venture Capital
Collaboration with Agri-food web platform for IRRICLIME business development.
Venture Capital to scale-up the service and investing in business development.
- Public or private funding institutions
- EU and Member State Policy-makers
- International Organisations (ex. OECD, FAO, UN, etc.)
- Other Actors who can help us fulfil our market potential
- Private Investors
R&D, Technology and Innovation aspects
IRRICLIME is available on-line in a demo mode covering the geographic area managed by Romagna Land Reclamation and Irrigation Authority. The Climate Service has been developed in a cloud-web mapping framework ready to be scale up and implemented globally for a generic area of interest
The demonstrator is fully operative with the possibility to plot and map water irrigation needs for crops.
Result submitted to Horizon Results Platform by AGENZIA REGIONALE PER LA PREVENZIONE, L’AMBIENTE E L’ENERGIA DELL’EMILIA-ROMAGNA
