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CONSORTIUM FOR THE DEVELOPMENT IN THE INTEGRATED AGRICULTURAL SYSTEM
Sustainability, Environmental Services and Risk Management

     The objectives of this action focus in:

1. Agricultural Research and consultancy: techniques to maximize productivity, improving water and nutrient use efficiency, reduction of GHG emissions and increase of C sequestration by agricultural systems.
2. Introduce new agricultural insurance products for the Spanish and global (FAO) production systems, including environmental and drought insurances.
3. Analyse and propose instruments for environmental and risk management, and climate change impact assessment in agriculture for cropping systems, animal production and ecosystems.

Description of the action

     The Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM), trough the ETSI Agricultural research groups  (AgSYSTEMS, COAPA, CASAM, MGP), with the CEIGRAM will identify environmental impacts related to the management of agricultural systems, in current and future climates, and present mitigation and adaptation strategies.

     An integrated approach is essential to the design of sustainable systems. Collaboration between the UPM and research groups from CIEMAT and INIA will enhance research into the analysis of conservation agriculture and agro-forestry systems.

     Economic implications of new insurance products will be evaluated with collaboration of the Spanish Office of Climate Change and the MCCL CEI-Moncloa; their use will be proposed to ENESA. AGROSEGURO will ensure these new insurance lines are adopted in Spain, and they will be further presented to other countries by ENESA, which is responsible for transferring these new environmental insurance products to governments of other countries that may potentially be interested in implementing new types of environmental insurance.

Rationale for the action

     The rationale focus in these three points:

1. Deeper knowledge of key sustainability aspects of agricultural systems from a global and multidisciplinary perspective.
2. Develop technologies and techniques that maintain productivity while minimizing impacts.
3. Impact of climate change on economic activities and its environmental repercussions.

Key planned and impact planned

     The results that try to achieve are publications and Internationalisation. In this way in five years will be having around 115 SCI publications. In addition, continued participation in current European projects and new collaborations. And, it must be emphasized in the impact of climate change on economic activities and its environmental repercussions.

Impact:

     Planned impact in summarize is:

1. Development of sustainability indicators for agriculture
2. Development of tools for agricultural and environmental risk management to attain a productive and sustainable agriculture.
3. Development of mitigation and adaptation strategies of agro-ecosystems to climate change.
4. New concepts and products based on long standing Spanish experience in agricultural insurance (over 30 years).

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