Agroecology is agriculture based on a series of principles. The main ones are:-The permanent occupation of soils and space by plants and animals🍀🐑-Recycling of all resources♻️-The minimal disturbance of the environment🪱-Biodiversity and a large number of actors🐝-The flow of information📣-The sharing of abundance: of products and services🤝 You have to copy nature, it grows on…
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The URBANE partners met on the 26-27 of June at the ESIEE premises in Paris in a two-day meeting organized by partner SENSEEN. The partners had the opportunity to discuss important milestones and results, bottlenecks and further plan the work forward. Next meeting will be held near M18 with more details to be announced soon!
Last month, SENSEEN visited IAV and brought the measurement equipment to start a test campaign to measure stress on selected crops. With Prof Majid Mounir they together visited the sites with orange and olive trees and the poultry farm, both pilot sites for the Moroccan case study, to organize the work ahead and discuss potentials…
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Last month, URBANE partners CNA and SENSEEN visited Senegal and local URBANE partner UGB! The teams discussed the operational actions in the context of the project and SENSEEN delivered measurement equipment to be used in the pilots. Initial discussions were organized and action plans were put in place for the preparation of the URBANE experiments in Senegal. While in Senegal, CNA and SENSEEN also took the…
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A two-day hybrid meeting in Rabat, Morocco marked the 6 months of the project. The meeting took place on the 23-24th of November and it hosted by local partner IAV. It was a great opportunity to meet most of the partners in person and discuss our way forward within the URBANE_Project. Plans for the next 6 months…
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URBANE’s kick off meeting took place virtually over two days on July 26-27. The partners met together and discussed plans for the work ahead. The project officially started on July 1st, 2022 and it is scheduled to run for 48 months. 26 organizations from Europe and Africa make up the Consortium of this exciting and…
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