2nd Green ERA-Hub call

Crop and livestock farming meeting the challenges of climate change

The 2024 Green ERA-Hub Call is developed by the partners of the ERA-Hub Call in collaboration with the Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases (GRA) and the Wheat initiative. The overall objective of this 2024 joint international funding Call is to advance the climate smart farming for climate change adaptation, resilience to stresses, and crop and livestock health, in a context of the economic sustainability of farming.

Call topics

  • Topic 1: Improved resilience and health of crops

The scope includes projects focused on temperate, rain-fed and irrigated cropping environments. These farming systems are often characterised by cereal production, particularly wheat and barley, grown in rotation with brassica, grain legumes or other crops. Rotational grassland and perennial crops are also included in the scope.

  • Topic 2: Livestock production and climate change

This topic focusses on livestock, GHGs and climate change, addressing both, (a) solutions for climate change adaptation and (b) measurement systems for GHG emissions. The scope includes the major terrestrial livestock types (beef and dairy cattle, pigs, poultry and small ruminants)

Key Details

  • The webinar for applicants took place on the 21st of June 2024, 9:30 CEST.

    You can find and download the slides presented during the webinar via this link.

  • More details of the research projects are available in the table below. Further detailed information on the projects and the partners will be available soon.

Topic 1: Improved resilience and health of crops

Project title Project acronym Coordinator Countries involved (coordinator in bold)
Biotechnology-based solutions for crop stress mitigation CROP BOOSTERS LIST-Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology LU
Optimising crop root growth and function for enhanced drought resilience in legume-sorghum intercropping ORACLE Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences DE
Field Analysis via Remote Monitoring and Sustainable, Decomposable Agricultural Nodes FarmScan Field Analysis via Remote Monitoring and Sustainable, Decomposable Agricultural Nodes DE
Exploiting cereal biodiversity in nutrient use and biological interactions in crop resilience breeding CerealBio Council for Agricultural Research and Economics IT
Agrogeophysics for Sustainable Soil Management under climate extremes AGROSOIL Forschungszentrum Jülich DE

Topic 2: Livestock production and climate change

Project title Project acronym Coordinator Countries involved (coordinator in bold)
Tracking different methane mitigation strategies using Carbon isotope ratios in ruminants MethTrack University of Milan IT