Is a project funded by Adaptation Fund: Climate Innovation Accelerator, a grant aggregator Programme implemented by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) working in conjunction with the Climate Technology Centre and Network (CTCN).
This project intends to deliver two different solutions to the purposed beneficiaries historically underserved by government policies – THE FARMERS!
Suggested solutions are aspired to deliver a high-performance:
i) Mitigation possibility that serves soil-based carbon sequestration through shred technologies for olive pruning residues, which otherwise get burned in open air.
ii) Adaptation choices that supply irrigation and energy deficit with water-depth resources, through introduction of agri-voltaic advantages, such as the solar powered water pump technology.
Both these practices have something in common – adaptation of innovative technologies, still unavailable for local farmers. In a set of stressors smallholders struggles with a myriad of problems linked with – the typically small farms; the crisis that has hit sector due to the rising of oil and fertilizers price; increased costs of raw materials and fertilizers; low production and underselling of products, the low incomes, underfinanced farmer from public subsidy schemes; inability of farmers to develop economy of scale; non-available technologies or solutions, vulnerability of the sector to Climate Change, etc.
We aim creation of a connectivity fueled transformation in farming practices, through mitigation & adaptation technologies, which will generate in return solid socio-economic benefits to involved groups of farmers and to the environment.