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Project partners:
Project Funded by Programme LIFELIFE 15 PRE IT/732295
Project LIFE - MediNet
Mediterranean Network for Reporting Emissions and Removals in Cropland and Grassland
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Participating Countries/ Project Focus Areas
Formal Participation in the Consortium
Italy
Portugal
Involvement as “Supporting Institutions”
Spain
Greece
France
Malta
Cyprus
Slovenia
Italy
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MediNet: General Objective
Improve the transparency, consistency, comparability, completeness and accuracy of cropland and grassland reporting
of emissions and removals in Mediterranean Countries
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MediNet: Specific objectives
1. Compilation and systematization of existing knowledge and data, in particular in relation to:– activity data
– mineral soils
– aboveground biomass of perennial crops
2. Sharing experiences and approaches in reporting croplands and grasslands emissions in Mediterranean conditions.
3. Exploring the possible use of common methods and/or reference data and/or data sets for reporting purposes.
4. Identifying information and research gaps
5. Enhance the participation and involvement of agriculture stakeholders in climate change mitigation and adaptation
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Project Results
Preparatory Work
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Project Results
Activity Data• Review of availability and usefulness of
different data sets available at EU Level for reporting purposes
• Statistics
– Crop Statistics
– Orchards / Vineyard Surveys
– Survey on Agricultural Production Methods
– Organic Farming
• Cartographic information
– CORINE land cover and land-use change
– LUCAS Land Use and Coverage Area frame Survey
– LPIS Land Parcel Identification System
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Project Results
Biomass Data
• Review of literature on biomass in Mediterranean countries
– Focus on permanent crops and woody grasslands (shrublands)
– Database with results from 150 papers (= 1483 data entries)
– Information harmonization to relevant reporting variables
– Discussion of preliminary results on a participatory workshop (Lisbon, 4-5 December 2017)
– Production of final report
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Project Results
Biomass Data
• Growth curves adjusted to existing data
– AGB, BGB, Pruning
• Proposal of new default values for the Mediterranean Region
Biomass Carbon Accumulation Rate
conversions from other uses to permanent crop
Conversion period AGB BGB Total
years U tC.ha-1.y-1 U tC.ha-1.y-1 U tC.ha-1.y-1 U
Olive Trees 20 23% 0.46 27% 0.13 27% 0.59 22%
Vineyards 20 18% 0.28 26% 0.22 26% 0.50 18%
Fruit Trees 20 42% 0.43 46% 0.29 47% 0.72 33%
Shrublands 20 46% 0.39 49% 0.55 50% 0.94 36%
Notes: Assumes no-net change in biomass stocks after conversion period
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Current Work
Soil Data
• Review of existing soil data in Mediterranean countries
– Focus on cropland and grassland
– Soil Profile Database
• From literature
• From existing databases
– LUCAS Soil Data
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Olive trees Vineyards Fruit trees Annual Crops Pastures Shrublands
INFOSOLO (PT) 64 3 5 216 20 0
CARBOSOL (SP) 51 66 33 387 233 258
SEISnet (SP-Andalucia) 24 2 4 62 0 0
Literature 81 16 3 172 101 116
TOTAL 220 87 45 837 354 374
Soil Profile Database
• Data from 3 existing databases + data from literature
• Harmonised to 0-30cm
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LUCAS Soil Data
• Data from 2009 and PT, IT, SP, GR, FR (Mediterranée), SI
– Processing data according to crop type• Cereals 1580 samples
• Fodder 251
• Other annual crops 372
• Olive trees 414
• Vineyards 264
• Fruit trees (except citrus) 72
• Citrus trees 62
• Nut trees 73
• Shrublands 280
• Pastures 838
• Bare land 271
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