Case Studies

Agroforestry in Tuscany links farm practice and research to build climate resilience.

In the 1950s–60s, the Alzette floodplain was straightened for intensive agriculture, reducing water retention and ecological value.

This is a traditional practice in the Baixo Vouga Lagunar Area (Aveiro District, Vouga River Estuary, Portugal), since 19th century in order to pro

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This case study documents applied research in Flanders that tested and scaled controlled drainage and simple adjustable weirs on arable land.

This case study documents a long-term Controlled Traffic Farming (CTF) experiment on a 16 ha steep arable field operated by the Slovak University o

“La Conchuela” is a commercial olive orchard located about 10 km west of Córdoba, Andalusia, near the A-431 road.

EIP-AGRI Operational Group “DaLeA” tested a clover-based permanent living mulch interplanted with arable main crops to suppress weeds, regulate soi

Three measures were implemented in the Őrség National Park to rehabilitate habitats, all with water retention benefits.

Bas-Rhin is highly exposed to muddy runoff during spring–early-summer storms, impacting villages downstream of cropped slopes.

Since 1992, the city of Heilbronn (Germany) has implemented a field margin programme to reduce erosion, improve water infiltration, and promote bio

Located in Pays de la Loire and Nouvelle-Aquitaine, the Marais Poitevin is France’s second-largest wetland.

The Holter-Hammrich project combined several natural water retention measures: floodplain restoration, meadow and pasture rehabilitation, and reduc

Upstream of ’s-Gravenvoeren (Voeren), the Horstergrub measure keeps muddy runoff in the valley with an earthen dyke/dams, and farmland was shifted

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This project is a permaculture-based regenerative agroecological farm and agritourism initiative located in Cairo Montenotte, Italy.

The 75 km-long Vezouze river regulary overflows, leading to increasingly violent floods especially in the urbanized sector of Lunéville, worsen by

This study assessed saturated hydraulic conductivity (Ksat), surface runoff (SR) and soil erosion (SL) under rainfed conditions, at plot scale, ove

In the framework of a research programme, no tillage field trials have been installed in lower Austria.

The Cherio River basin is located in the eastern part of Bergamo province, Lombardy region.

The Csorsza case study is located in Veszprém County, Hungary.

HU: The Hungarian part of Kebele catchment with its 209 km2 size is located in the south-western corner of the country, in the West-transdanubian W

The Kråkstadelva catchment, as case study area, is located within the Hobølelva watershed, located ca. 30km S-SE of Oslo, Norway.

The Pesnica river catchment is characterized by intensive agricultural production, mainly cattle/pig breeding and arable farming.