Adapting agriculture to climate change

Cross-border project “KLIMACrops”

The Interreg project “KLIMACrops” deals with the adaptation of agriculture in the Upper Rhine region to climate change, the energy transition and ecological change. Together with 17 partner institutions from Germany, France and Switzerland, we will be researching strategies for overcoming the problems associated with climate change in agriculture over the next three years. Selected practical solutions will be examined and, in particular, their performance and transferability evaluated. In addition, workshops will be organized with various stakeholders to develop new crop rotations that are compatible with climate change as it is already occurring today and the climate scenarios of the future.

As part of the Interreg project at the Rinkenbergerhof, LUFA Speyer is testing innovative cultivation systems such as new crop rotations to reduce the need for mineral nitrogen fertilizer and relay cropping, a cultivation system in which two crops are grown in succession. Among other things, this enables long soil cover, less tillage, an earlier harvest of the second crop and a lower irrigation requirement. The overarching aim of the research project is to design regional cultivation systems in such a way that they deliver stable yields under changing climatic conditions and thus also contribute to food security in the future.

Find out more about the project here.