What happens when the same farmer, managing two similar neighboring fields with access to very different amounts of water? The SWRI team, pilot leaders in the Pinios, Greece, Living Lab analysed the data of the past few years to find out. The answer, it turns out, sheds important light on how farmers make decisions under uncertainty. Field S9 (left red enclosed area) and field S10 – two apple orchards less than 300 metres distance. A near-perfect natural experiment in water...Read More
NexusLabs has successfully deployed a new low-cost integrated soil monitoring system in its Morocco pilot site in the Tensift River Basin — an important step towards smarter, more efficient irrigation in Mediterranean agriculture. The system was designed and assembled by the Cadi Ayyad University team, combining reliability, accuracy and affordability so that it can be used not only by researchers, but also by farmers in real conditions. At its core, the system uses a set of sensors placed directly in...Read More
