Intel-Irris

FINAL INTEL-IRRIS EVENT IN ALGERIA AND MOROCCO

MAY 9th, 2024 IN ALGERIA & MAY 22nd, 2024 IN MOROCCO

A NETWORKING SESSION IS DEDICATED TO WATER-RELATED PRIMA PROJECTS

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INTEL-IRRIS is part of the PRIMA Programme supported by the European Union. It is funded under Section 2 Multitopic 2020 Thematic Area 1-Water management addressing low cost, lean solutions for enhancing irrigation efficiency of small-scale farms. 

According to FAO, small-scale farming has an enormous contribution to food security and to rural economy. However, smallholders usually face a number of constraints that are impeding their productivity, profitability and contribution to economic growth.

Water resource is one of the major constraints and the situation is foreseen to worsen due to water shortage in relation with current excessive use and climate change. Controlled and improved irrigation can save water while maximising plant growth and yield.

Intel-IrriS will provide the smallholder farmers a more efficient management of its available water by deploying of an open, low-cost and autonomous irrigation control system based on IoT and smart technologies. The irrigation process to decide/suggest how much water is needed to maintain the optimal production potential without water wasting can be adapted (i) for a particular crop, (ii) at a particular moment and (iii) for a given soil type and condition because it will be seconded by algorithms predicting the behaviour of the complex soil/plant/atmosphere system.

Get the PRIMA 2020 booklet where INTEL-IRRIS is presented in pages 90-91. Here are links to PRIMA 2021 and PRIMA 2022 booklets where many interesting water-related projects are presented.

Partnership for Research and Innovation in the Mediterranean Area

PRIMA is the most ambitious joint programme to be undertaken in the frame of Euro-Mediterranean cooperation.

“build research and innovation capacities and to develop knowledge and common innovative solutions for agro-food systems, to make them sustainable, and for integrated water provision and management in the Mediterranean area, to make those systems and that provision and management more climate resilient, efficient, cost-effective and environmentally and socially sustainable, and to contribute to solving water scarcity, food security, nutrition, health, well-being and migration problems upstream”.

European Union

PRIMA consists of European Union Member States, Horizon 2020 Associated Countries and Mediterranean Partner Countries.

Algeria, Croatia, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Lebanon, Luxembourg, Malta, Morocco, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Tunisia and Turkey have formally become PRIMA Participating States. The partnership will be financed through a combination of funding from PRIMA Participating States and a contribution from the EU through Horizon 2020, its research and innovation funding programme (2014 – 2020).