Geographic Information System LIFE plus Climagri

The agricultural sector may be affected by climate change. This sector, besides suffering from this phenomenon, constitutes a source of emissions of greenhouse gases. As a result, agriculture faces the challenge of mitigating climate change and adapting to the new scenarios resulting from global warming. In this context, it emerges the LIFE+ Climagri project (LIFE13 ENV / ES / 000541 - www.climagri.eu), which counts on a European Network of Demonstrative Farms (ENDF) composed of 12 farms (in Spain, Greece, Italy and Portugal) that are being managed under a series of Best Management Practices (BMPs) that form a climate change mitigation-adaptation strategy. The implementation of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is presented as a valuable and innovative decision making tool in extensive crops. In the framework of the LIFE+ Climagri project, it has been developed a GIS, which uses the information generated in the ENDF. The SIG Climagri, besides helping to manage and display all the georeferenced information that is introduced, offers the possibility of systematizing the decision-making processes. Every year the farmer can get the values of the sustainability indicators of his farm, as well as recommendations on the BMPs to be used or improved to mitigate and adapt to climate change. This GIS Climagri also allows the access to farmers outside the ENDF who may be interested in the use of this decision tool, once they are registered.