Life AgriAdapt Estonian project team won the "Award for the University Collaborative Project 2020" which is given annualy in Estonian University of Life Sciences to the project team doing very good collaboration work within different departments of the...

Our LIFE AgriAdapt project is one of six projects that will be presented at the EU webinar "Climate Neutral Food and Wood: Presentation of good examples from agriculture, forestry, the food sector and the bio-economy" on 6th October 2020 between 9.30 and 12.40. The...

The AgriAdapt Webtool for Adaptation (AWA) has been included in the German Climate Preparedness Portal as a tool for adaptation: link to the AWA on the portal. The German Climate Preparedness Portal of the German government is a portal with information, data and...

On April 23rd 2020, Nicolas Métayer and Sylvain Doublet, agronomists at Solagro, presented the final results of the LIFE AgriAdapt project and the method to characterize the climatic vulnerability of farms in Europe during a final webinar. About 800 people...

On 29th of April 2020, two days before the end of the almost four-year EU LIFE project LIFE AgriAdapt, the Lake Constance Foundation organised a webinar to present the web tool developed in the project to a broad audience: "The AWA web tool - a simple, interactive...

The LIFE AgriAdapt project is one of fifteen nominated projects in the German "Blue Compass" competition. Voting for the audience award is now possible - daily until 20 April 2020. You can vote here: www.uba.de/tatenbank. We are happy when many people vote for our...

On 16th of March 2020, the LIFE AgriAdapt project team presented their results and recommendations from 126 pilot farms in Europe and a new innovative webtool to increase farmer’s adaptation competence. You can download now the webinar presentation with the following...

The fourth edition of technical beekeeping meetings organized by ADA AURA on February 17 and 18, 2020 in Marcoux (42) brought together more than 80 professional beekeepers who came to take stock of the environmental footprint of beekeeping holdings. For the second...

With this question the Lake Constance Foundation invited representatives from organic processing and organic trade to a panel discussion at the Biofach 2020 in Nuremberg. In an introductory presentation, Andreas Ziermann, a member of the Lake Constance Foundation's...

Rising concerns about climate change and its effects to Nordic agricultural practices were discussed in a scientific practical conference „Agriculture in changing climate” in Tartu. The event created a platform for knowledge transfer between agricultural stakeholders,...

One of the specific actions of the LIFE AgriAdapt project concerns the development of a Training pack (digital resources) for agricultural stakeholders. Its objective is to facilitate the popularization of the impacts of climate change and agricultural practices...

Adaptation strategies for farmers and businesses LIFE AgriAdapt at the Biofach Late frosts, heavy precipitation and prolonged periods of rain, heat and drought lead to considerable losses in agricultural yields and quality, some of which threaten the existence of the...

After four years of work, Fundación Global Nature presented the results of the LIFE AgriAdapt project for the Southern Region during a conference organized in Madrid on the 21st January 2020. More than 90 professionals attended this event, including representatives...

The CERFRANCE Picardie Nord de Seine (accounting Center) organized on 27 and 28 November 2019, the "economic rendez-vous" for its members and partners, with a total of 4 half-days spread over the department of the Somme: each intervention allowed to present the...

How can agriculture adapt sustainably? This was the core topic of the conference organised by the Lake Constance Foundation on the 18th and 19th of November 2019 in Stuttgart, as part of the EU project LIFE AgriAdapt. More than 70 experts from several German states,...

The Final Conference of the LIFE AgriAdapt project will be held on the 21st of January 2020, and will tackle sustainable adaptation of the agrarian sector to climate change in the European Southern Climate Risk Region, identified as one of the most vulnerable regions...

On November 27, 2019, the Estonian University of Life Sciences will host a transnational conference “Agriculture in a Changing Climate” in Tartu. Conference will focus on the challanges of climate change on agricultural sector in the Nordic-Baltic countries and...

INVITATION: The challenge of climate change - How can agriculture adapt sustainably? International symposium for Central and Eastern Europe Climate change is one of the world's most important challenges of our time, which agriculture also has to face. On the one hand,...

On 25th Sept 2019 a workshop on "Climate change and its consequences" took place in Hohenems, Vorarlberg (A) organised by the Lake of Constance Academy. The participants came from different fields - agriculture, administration, agricultural technical school,...

VIVEA is the training insurance fund for farmers and has more than 590 900 contributors. It finances the training actions towards its contributors and defines a training development policy to meet the skills needs of the latter. Since a few years, climate change is a...

20 young specialists from Chinese agriculture and food industry visited the LIFE AgriAdapt pilot farm Ziegler at Lake Constance. They learned about climate change and its effects on agriculture. In addition to the methodology and results of the climate change check,...

At the end of July, the Lake Constance Foundation accompanied the private broadcaster Regio TV Bodensee to present the Lake Constance Foundation's projects on climate protection and adaptation in agriculture. Two pilot farms and the office of the Lake Constance...

For the 2nd time the Eco Field Days took place on 03th/04th July 2019 on the Hessian state domain Frankenhausen, Kassel. 11 000 visitors were counted. The event was organised by Fibl Projekte GmbH, co-organised by the Hessian Ministry of Agriculture, the University of...

During this month, we have received again the visit of the MSc students from Wageningen University making the Academic Consultancy Training course. FGN has commissioned two case studies in two of the pilot farms included in the LIFE AgriAdapt project, one in vineyards...

The last 3rd of July 2019, FGN participated in the session about “Impacts and Challenges of Climate Change”,  introducing LIFE AgriAdapt experience in the summer course “Climate-KIC Journey” during the sessions organized by Universidad Politécnica de Madrid,...

The majority of Europe was affected by unusually early, and intense, heatwaves during June 2019. Spain, eastern France, the Czech Republic, Germany, Poland, Lithuania and Latvia suffered the greatest impact of the heatwave on annual crops. More information on the...

On the 6th and 7th of June 2019, the DVS (German Networking Centre for Rural Areas) organised a workshop on "Agriculture in a changing climate - Technology and Knowledge Transfer" together with the Austrian Network Future Region Land. The content of the event was...

The managers of the farms belonging to agricultural schools of Grand-Est region were gathered at school of Châlons en Champagne last April 11th. It was an opportunity to exchange about climate adaptation issues from the example of the school of Somme-Vesle located in...

Together, the two project partners Solagro and the Lake Constance Foundation presented the LIFE AgriAdapt project to the FAO Climate Change Study Circle during a one-hour webinar (“LIFE AgriAdapt - evaluate and reduce the vulnerability of European farms to climate...

Organised for the first time in southern Europe, the 4th European Climate Change Adaptation (ECCA) builds upon past editions (Hamburg 2013, Copenhagen 2015 and Glasgow 2017, bringing researchers, policymakers and practitioners from Europe and beyond to discuss recent...

During this Congress, there has been a deep debate about the future CAP Green Architecture. The Congress was organized by the Spanish Ministry on Agriculture, Fishing and Food on the 29th- 31st of May of 2019 in Zafra, Badajoz, Spain. It hosted 170 participants from:...

24-25 April, 2019 an international agricultural forum Agroforum Mare Balticum took place in Estonia. The ambition of the current year conference was to reflect agroecology as a concept from different angles. Agroforum is a good platform for three-level discussions...

Making better quality food accessible to everyone, building on existing initiatives, such is the ambition of the Nantes Food Forum (France). A third edition is envisioned for 2019, where the needs for climate change adaptation will be discussed, under the auspices of...

Improving soil structure is one of the most important adaptation measures to maintain yields at a stable level even in times of climate change. This was the topic of the workshop within the EU LIFE project LIFE AgriAdapt, which took place on the farm of the...

During the Local National Environmental Congress in Spain (Local CONAMA 2019), the results of the LIFE AgriAdapt Project were shown in a session called “Agriculture: towards a higher efficiency in the use of resources”, celebrated the 2nd of April 2019 in Toledo. In...

To identify the possible measures for vineyards to adapt to the risks of climate change, taking into consideration the specific area or region where that vineyard is located, is the basis of the discussion which took place in WineBiodiversity. This event was held last...

Last Thursday, on March the 7th, Fundación Global Nature organized a workshop to share the results of the LIFE AgriAdapt project with the most important wineries of Terres del Alforins (Valencia). Bodega Casa Los Frailes and Bodega La Viña-Cooperativa Font de la...

Events in agricultural technical schools and the city of Friedrichshafen: One objective of the EU LIFE project LIFE AgriAdapt is to disseminate the findings of the project on sustainable adaptation of agriculture to climate change to relevant stakeholder groups. These...

From May 28th to 31st, the European Conference on Climate Adaptation will take place in Lisbon. LIFE AgriAdapt will, once again, contribute to the effort. Nicolas Métayer, from Solagro, will present our upcoming web-based service to help farmers design an adaptation...

Picture caption: Mrs. Sommer (Lake Constance Foundation), Mrs. Ziegler (pilot company in the LIFE AgriAdapt project) and Mr. Asse (teacher) agree: it is high time for sustainable adaptation measures! How has climate change affected the past and the future? To what...

On 25th of January 2019, the annual symposium for dairy farmers took place in Amtzell, in the district of Ravensburg. This year's theme of the event was "Dairy cattle farming in times of climate change". In this context, the Lake Constance Foundation gave a...

During the National Environmental Congress in Spain (CONAMA 2018), the Working Group 2 “Adaptation to Climate Change” had a session on the 27th of November 2018 to tackle adaptation issues. Information regarding this Working Group 2 can be found in the following link...

The 2nd of November 2018, the II Conference of University Research in Climate Change took place in the UPV (Polytechnic University of Valencia). It was promoted by the Chair of Climate Change UPV-GVA and sponsored by the Generalitat Valenciana. The Conferences of...

On the 22nd of October 2018, an informative session with agrarian insurance companies regarding sustainable adaptation measures to climate change took place in Madrid. In this session, information about policies, measures and resources of Spanish agriculture and...

On Friday the 30th of November 2018, an informative meeting of the Spanish Committee of Experts of the LIFE AgriAdapt project took place in the Royal Botanical Garden of Madrid (Spain). In this meeting, the methodology of the project, the models and projections used...

In current video Professor Kadri Karp, expert of LIFE AgriAdapt project from the Chair of Horticulture of the Estonian University of Life Sciences gives an overview about problems of grape growers from the Nordic countries. She explains how...

In December, the Lake Constance Foundation together with the local fruit marketing organisations Marktgemeinschaft Bodensee (MaBo) and WOG (Württembergische Obstgenossenschaft Raiffeisen eG) organised a workshop on a fruit growing farm. Farmers,...

INRA, the French national institute for agricultural research, is the owner of an extraordinary robot. Its mission? Scan plants in order to better understand their characteristics and development processes. On November 21st, LIFE AgriAdapt partners were invited to...

On October 3d, 2018, 50 participants took part in a visit of one of the LIFE AgriAdapt pilot farms in France. Located near Troyes, in the heart of France’s granary, Bertrand Patenotre’s farm produces a variety of crops and has a small sheep herd (which is rather...

Grape-growing is becoming more and more popular in Northern Europe. In order to share information about creating the right conditions for grape vines, the Chair of Horticulture of the Estonian University of Life Sciences, in cooperation with Murimäe Wine...

Following an invitation from the European Commission, the LIFE AgriAdapt project participated in the forum “Seed Biodiversity as a Response to Climate Change” on the 23rd of September at the Terra Madre Salone del Gusto in Turin. The main focus was how a...

On the 15th of October 2018, the LIFE AgriAdapt project partners organized a technical meeting in Brussels in which they presented the first project results on European level. In this meeting, recommendations to reduce the farm climate vulnerability of the...

Sorry, this entry is only available in Eesti. Los eventos meteorológicos extremos son, junto al aumento de las temperaturas y la menor disponibilidad hídrica, uno de los talones de Aquiles de nuestra agricultura En los últimos meses se han elaborado...

Copernicus, the European Union’s earth observation programme, helps to understand how our planet and its climate are changing, the role played by human activities in these changes and how these will influence our daily lives. The Copernicus programme is...

On the 15th of October, the LIFE AgriAdapt project partners are holding a technical meeting in Brussels to present first project results on European level. The meeting will take place from 2:00 – 5:00 pm at Science14 (14b Rue de la Science, 1040,...

In Estonia several demonstrative workshops were organised during the summer. First workshop was held at the end of June in one of the LIFE AgriAdapt pilot farms where many different crops and varieties were presented. Participants had a very good...

On May 30th, 2018, Philippe Pointereau, Director of the Agrienvironment department with Solagro, took part in a conference held by Toulouse Métropole and entitled “Climate change and adaptation challenges for Toulouse Metropole”. The aim was to raise the...

On June 25th, technicians from Fundación Global Nature, responsible for the LIFE AgriAdapt project, met in Pamplona with the LIFE NAdapta integrated LIFE project team. During a whole morning of work the main lines of action of both projects were presented....

In this meeting, held on the 18th of June, the results of the different assessments of vulnerability to climate change for the 6 pilot farms of arable crops in Spain (cereals, legumes and oilseeds), have been presented. Based on these assessments,...

The 22nd of June 2018, a first workshop was organised by the Lake Constance Foundation on a dairy farm in the district Bodenseekreis, Germany. The farm is one of the 30 pilot farms in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, which are part of the LIFE project LIFE...

On April 5, 2018, Fundación Global Nature (FGN) presented the first results of LIFE AgriAdapt on the vulnerability to climate change of arable crops of the Mediterranean Region in a Seminar of the National Plan of Adaptation to Climate Change (PNACC) organized by...

Out of a total of 111 applications submitted, the LIFE AgriAdapt project is one fifteen nominated projects. From these, the jury, with representatives of the Federal Environment Agency, Federal Environment Ministry, weekly newspaper DIE ZEIT, Harz...

On the 8th of March 2018 an expert meeting  took place in Stuttgart with national experts and stakeholders from Baden-Württemberg, organized by the Lake Constance Foundation.  During this event the project LIFE AgriAdapt and its methodology were...

23 March 2018 Representatives from LIFE projects converged on Madrid, Spain, on 13-14 March to discuss the impact of rising temperatures on agriculture and forestry in the Mediterranean. The two-day platform meeting drew on expertise from LIFE...

About 20 pilot farms have registered to take part in the LIFE AgriAdapt project in the Center East of France. On February 20th and 21st, 2018, these farmers got a chance to meet and engage in a discussion about potential impacts of climate change on their...

On May, 30th, 2018, Météo et Climat held its annual scientific event in Toulouse, France. Leading French experts shared insights about the impacts of climate change on agriculture in Occitanie (South West France), and discussed adaptation options. Their...

Event This LIFE platform meeting will address climate change adaptation in agriculture and forestry around the Mediterranean regions of the EU. Representatives from LIFE projects, national governments, EU institutions, local authorities, expert bodies,...

Martin Hahn, Member of the Baden-Württemberg Parliament, agricultural speaker of the regional parliamentary group of the green party and leader of agriculture board of the of the Baden-Württemberg Parliament, invited representatives of the fruit growing...

“Climate Change and extreme weather events – Adaptation strategies for the agriculture in Baden-Württemberg” – this was the topic of this year’s agricultural talk in Hohebuch on 10th January 2018, hosted by the Protestant Farmers Organisation. More than 50...

To comply with the wishes of the participants, this year’s Plant Protection Day on 19 October was organised as a conference at which the problems of environmentally friendly grain and legume production were discussed. The conference covered a wide range of...

On the 11th of October, the Lake Constance Foundation presented the LIFE AgriAdapt project and its methodology at the symposium “Assessments of GHG emissions and climate change mitigation in agriculture”. The symposium was held in Freising, Bavaria, and included...

Fundación Global Nature has been one of the 68 beneficiary entities of the call for projects on adaptation to climate change supported by the Biodiversity Foundation of the Ministry for Agriculture and Fisheries, Food and Environment of Spain. This aid will be part of...

On November 28th, Meteo et Climat will convene, in Paris, its annual « scientific day » with a focus on « climate change : where will our forest and agriculture stand tomorrow ? ». Professionals from the agricultural, agro-food and...

On 30th June 2017 Jordi Domingo (Fundación Global Nature) presented the LIFE AgriAdapt project at the EcoWineMed Symposium that was held in Utiel (Valencia, Spain). The “I EcoWineMed Symposium: Mediterranean” was organized by the Spanish Association of Organic Farming...

The first report elaborated by the LIFE AgriAdapt project is online and available for download here. This Baseline report shows the state of the art in adaptation to climate change in the farming sector in the four main EU Climate Risk Regions (Atlantic, Continental,...

Nicolas Métayer, project officer with Solagro, presented our new decision-supporting tool at the recent European Conference on Climate Change Adaptation in Glasgow (June 5th - 9th 2017). His presentation, which you can download here, focused on the methodology we’ll...

The LIFE AgriClimateChange project won a Green Award in the “climate action” category at a ceremony held on May 30th in Brussels. This award recognizes the most outstanding LIFE projects completed since the creation of the programme in 1992. The European Commission...

Representatives of all LIFE AgriAdapt partners met in Extremadura (Spain) on 22-24 May 2017 to discuss the methodology of the project, the development of the common decision-supporting tool and to plan the implementation of the upcoming activities. The meeting took...

The Ministry of National Development of Hungary invited the Lake Constance Foundation to present LIFE AgriAdapt on the 13th of April at a LIFE Info Day in Budapest. Carolina Wackerhagen gave an overview of the methodology and project actions conducted up to date, and...

The local farmers association BLHV had invited the Lake Constance Foundation to his spring meeting to present the LIFE AgriAdapt project. Sabine Sommer and Patrick Trötschler explained the project and its benefits to the approximately 30 present farmers. Two farmers...

The European Commission has selected the LIFE AgriClimateChange project as one of the 15 LIFE projects nominated to receive the Green Awards. These Awards will reward the most outstanding LIFE projects since 1992. The winners will be selected through public voting on...

The LIFE AgriAdapt project was presented by Fundación Global Nature on 29th November 2016 at the expert meeting on farming and climate change organized by the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Food and Environment with representatives of all the Regional...

The Spanish partner of LIFE AgriAdapt, Fundación Global Nature, participated at the “New sustainable challenges in agriculture” Forum held in Zaragoza (Spain) on 13th December 2016. Vanessa Sánchez gave the Opening Lecture “Sustainability challenges for the farming...