Spain is one of the European countries which is and will be the most affected by climate change. The concern about how food will be produced, if the climate keeps changing and if the soils keep deteriorating, is growing. The implementation of climate smart soil and water management practices, such as the use of cover crops to protect soil, could improve yields and reduce soil erosion or the loss of biodiversity associated with a poor soil management.
Therefore we would like to execute the next phase of the agro water nexus project. In the first phase we already gathered a lot of information about soil and water related practices that farmers can implement in their farms with the aim to protect their soils and enhance water availability.
The objective of phase 2 is to implement and evaluate the effects of the soil-water-management practices earlier identified, the use of cover crops to protect soil and enhance water infiltration.