New project on climate change impacts on Swiss crop suitability
Lavaux, Switzerland: Lake Geneva and the Swiss Alps landscape seen from Lavaux vineyard tarraces in Canton of Vaud (pexels.com)
CHANGE has received funding from the E4S Center to evaluate climate-driven changes in crop suitability across Switzerland.
With the overarching goal of driving science-informed climate action to future-proof agricultural production and food security in Switzerland and worldwide, the project will conduct a computational assessment of climate-driven changes in crop suitability across Switzerland. The work will not only address important knowledge gaps related to future climate-driven stressors and challenges, potentially informing management strategies, but also provide initial, tangible, and science-based results supporting the use of digital technologies and big data for the development of a digital decision-support model for the Swiss agricultural sector.
The project (Towards digitalization for sustainable and resilient agriculture: Climate change impacts on agricultural suitability in Switzerland) will start on March 1st and is a joint effort between CHANGE and the Hydrometeorology and Surface Processes group led by Prof. N. Peleg at University of Lausanne.
For more information, visit the E4S Project website
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