Tag: Periurban farming

Urbane

The guide to market gardening in living soil📗🍅🪱

Download the guide below and discover:-Fundamental information you need to succeed with the technique-How to assess the quality of your soil-How to properly start a market gardening activity-What are the operational sequences by vegetable-What are the technico-economic references on farms-The basics of market gardening in living soil.-Operational sequences sheets.-Portraits of farms.And so much more..! Download…
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September 29, 2023 0

Urban agriculture

Transformation of a wasteland that served as storage for a highway construction site into a nourishing garden.🚜🍅🥕 Discover how the association Le Talus Marseille transformed dead soil ☠️into an abundant market and agroforestry garden, thanks to methods of bringing soil back to life 🪱and an easy access to water💧. This project is a success at…
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September 14, 2023 0

All about Direct seeding Mulch-based Croping systems ! ☘️🌿🌱

In this practical handbook, learn more about the concepts, principles and tools of DMC in intertropical and temperate zones. It discusses the principles of management of ecosystems conducted in DMC, helps to reason the choice of cropping systems and operational sequences, presents a set of service plants that can be used in plant cover. 👀…
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July 27, 2023 0

Agroecology: The basics👀

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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July 13, 2023 0

M12 Consortium Meeting in Paris!

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!


July 5, 2023 0

SENSEEN visit IAV and the Moroccan pilot sites!

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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March 22, 2023 0

SENSEEN and CNA visit the Senegalese pilot sites!

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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February 22, 2023 0

6M Consortium Meeting

 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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November 24, 2022 0

URBANE Kicks off!

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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