Soil Hydrology research platform underpinning innovation to manage water scarcity in European and Chinese cropping systems — SHui

Code:	773903 (Shui)
Department's Principal Investigator:	prof. Dr. Ing. Tomáš Dostál,
Co-operation:	CSIC Spain THE AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH ORGANISATION OF ISRAEL – THE VOLCANI CENTRE BEIJING FORESTRY UNIVERSITY China BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY China UNIVERSITAET FUER BODENKULTUR WIEN Austria CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY China CHANGJIANG RIVER SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE China HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY Hong Kong FUJIAN AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY UNIVERSITY China FONDAZIONE PER LO SVILUPPO SOSTENIBILE DEL MEDITERRANEO Italy KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN Belgium NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY China NORTHWEST A&F UNIVERSITY China TERRA NOVA Greece TERRAVISION LAB LTD Israel UNIVERSIDAD DE CORDOBA Spain GEORG-AUGUST-UNIVERSITAT GOTTINGENSTIFTUNG OFFENTLICHEN RECHTS Germany LANCASTER UNIVERSITY United Kingdom
Start:	2018-09-01
End:	2022-08-31
Research focus:	SHui is conceived as a network integrating long-term experiments of its 19 academic and SME partners across different environmental conditions and cropping systems in the EU and China. It provides a platform for research on soil-water resources management under water scarce conditions, to better understand the linkages between agricultural soil hydrology and sustainability and for a systematic assessment of adaptation and mitigation methods. It will develop and implement new strategies to increase water use efficiency and yield, based on sustainable intensification through integrated use of soil and water across different spatial scales. At farm level, this includes digital agriculture solutions integrating in situ and remote sensors and simulation models to exploit an improved understanding of the relationship between crop yield variability and soil hydraulic properties, optimizing circular approaches to re-use water and using waste water sources. These technical approaches are reliant on optimum data utilization and transdisciplinary research with multiple stakeholders. At regional scales, the aggregation of biophysical and socioeconomic variables in dynamic models will evaluate the impact of different policy strategies, to support decision makers to evaluate different scenarios of land-use dynamics, economic context and current and future climate in EU and China, including assessments of water and carbon footprint.

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About the project

Taken over from oficial project website: https://www.shui-eu.org/

The overall aim of SHui is to deliver a suite of technologies and tools to empower individuals and stakeholder organizations to make informed decisions to manage water scarcity in European and Chinese cropping systems, and consolidating an integrated research platform for the coming decade across EU and China. Funded by the European Comission, the SHui consortium combines expertise across multiple disciplines (agronomy, irrigation technology, digital agriculture, hydrology, soil and water conservation, remote sensing, plant physiology, soil science and socio-economics), and within cognate cropping systems, across the EU and China.

Work Plan

SHui foresees activities over 4 years arranged in 7 work packages (WPs), whereby:

WP1-WP4 are Research+ Development+innovation (R+D+i) related.

WP5 will provide the socio-economic dimension.

WP5-WP6 will disseminate innovation to stakeholders and communicate to society.

WP7 manages the project.

DETAIL description of WP here...

Project Co-ordinators

Dr. Jose Alfonso Gómez Calero

Instituto de Agricultura Sostenible (IAS-CISC)

joseagomez@ias.csic.es

Av/ Menendez Pidal s/n

14004 Córdoba (Spain)

Phone: +34 957 499210

Dr. Weifeng Xu

Fujian Agriculture and Forest University (FAFU)

wfxu@fafu.edu.cn

15 Shangxiadian Road, Cangshan District

350002 Fuzhou City

People’s Republic of China

Phone: +86 591 83737535

This project is co-funded by the European Union

Project: 773903

Soil Hydrology research platform underpinning innovation to manage water scarcity in European and Chinese cropping systems — SHui

Research team members at the departement:

About the project

Work Plan

Project Co-ordinators

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