The concept for climate-smart agriculture
Agriculture is one of the main economic and social pillars in the countries of the Black Sea Basin. However, its development has been seriously challenged by insufficient sustainability, poor adaptation to climate change, underutilization of the regional resources and of the enlarging marketing niche for organic produce. The transformation of this sector and the adoption of practices in the Black Sea Basin that are “climate-smart” has to happen quickly and on mass basis but the only way to do it is by involving all the stakeholders in agricultural industry – young farmers, and professionals, business sectoral organizations, interest groups (NGOs), higher education and research institutions.
Here comes the AGREEN project promoting the concept for climate-smart agriculture as an approach for developing agricultural strategies to secure sustainable food security under climate change. The project is implemented in cooperation with Dobrudzha Agrarian and Business School (Bulgaria), Ovidius University of Constanta (Romania), Tekirdag Namik Kemal University (Turkey), Biological Farming Association Elkana (Georgia), International Center for Agribusiness Research and Education (Armenia) and Development Agency of Eastern Thessaloniki Local Authorities (Greece).
The project Cross-Border Alliance for Climate-Smart and Green Agriculture in the Black Sea Basin -AGREEN (BSB1135) aims to build capacities for networking and transnational knowledge-transfer base in order to escalate the drive for establishing climate-smart farming and maintaining higher rates of economic and social fulfilment as it is the evolution and future.