The project is structured in 4 work packages (WPs) and 10 activities, to reach 3 major objectives (Obj):
Objective 1: Deeply characterize biodiversity of key legume species in Mediterranean basin
Work Package 1: Agronomic, phenotypic and molecular characterization of lentil and chickpea biodiversity in Mediterranean basin
Activity 1: Recovery, selection and collection of germplasm.
Responsible: Francesco Loreto – Francesco.loreto@unina.it
Activity 2: Genomic and phenomic characterizations of the selected germplasm
Responsible: Federico Martinelli – Federico.martinelli@unifi.it
Activity 3: Agronomic screening and evaluation of germplasm in different geographic áreas.
Responsible: Noureddine Yahia – n_yahia@yahoo.fr
Objective 2: Improve the provision of legume-based ecosystem services and farming system sustainability in the Mediterranean basin
Work Package 2: Models and approaches for a biodiversity-based agriculture in legume-based farming systems
Activity 4: Development of new models, tools and approaches for the use of legumes in biodiversity-based agriculture to enhance ecosystem services and biodiversity
Responsible: Anna-Lena Vollheyde – vollheyde@umwelt.uni-hannover.de
Activity 5: Agronomic approaches to enhance ecosystem services and biodiversity of legume-based farming systems
Responsible: Noureddine Yahia – n_yahia@yahoo.fr
Work Package 3: Agro-technical and bio-technical solutions to improve management of functional agro-biodiversity in legume-based farming systems
Activity 6: Developing new legume-rhizobia combinations with enhanced symbiotic nitrogen fixation (SNF)
Responsible: Sanja Sikora – ssikora@agr.hr
Activity 7: Agro-technical and bio-technical novelties to increase sustainability of farming systems
Responsible: Paolo Barberi – paolo.barberi@santannapisa.it
Objective 3: Evaluate trade-offs of proposed measures, with cost/benefit analysis performed by stakeholders
Work Package 4: Socio-economic evaluations of proposed measures, information management, outcome disseminations and exploitation
Activity 8: Socio-cultural assessment of the proposed biodiversity-based agriculture measures
Responsible: Miguel Cebrian-Piqueras – cebrian@uni-goettingen.de
Activity 9: Socio-economic evaluation of the proposed measures through stakeholder’s involvement
Responsible:Miguel Cebrian-Piqueras – cebrian@uni-goettingen.de
Activity 10: Outreach, stakeholder updates, training and deliverables
Responsible: Federico Martinelli – Federico.martinelli@unifi.it
