Euroclima es un programa financiado por la Unión Europea

JRC

JRCedificio The Joint Research Centre of the European Commission (JRC), through the Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES), works together with IICA in the implementation of Component 3: Sustainable Agriculture, food security and climate change.

JRC's Objetive: Disseminates and deepens knowledge on Desertification, Land Degradation and Drought (DLDD) and applies bio-physical and bio-economic models for agricultural systems and policy analysis for Latin America (Result 3).

JRC's responsibilities include:

• Define together with EUROCLIMA national focal points and expert network, new priorities for research on DLDD and develop the corresponding models and tools.

• Accomplish knowledge transfer through the update, maintenance and transfer to Latin American partners of the DLDD information system developed under EUROCLIMA in its first phase.

• Achieve capacity building and South-South cooperation on DLDD through case studies, workshops and specific training sessions.

• Carry out context-specific bio-physical modelling for crop yield estimation under climate change.

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Joint Research Centre (JRC)

Paulo Barbosa, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.