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The scope of CITAB is focused on the agro-food and forestry systems using the production-chain approach as a whole. It is composed of a multidisciplinary team with expertise ranging from fundamental sciences such as biology and chemistry to agronomists, forestry engineers and ecologists.

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Artigo de opinião - Paulo Travassos

Seminário Sustainable Agrifood Production

Quarta sessão acontece já na próxima semana

Sandra Mariza no 90 Segundos de Ciência

Antena 1 quis saber mais sobre a utilização do peixe-zebra no estudo do sis...

A água no futuro. Investigação em ambiente empresarial

Quatro projetos do CITAB estarão em destaque neste evento

II Semana da Agricultura da UTAD

CITAB está a dar apoio ao evento

Leguminosas como solução para alimentar o futuro

Artigo de opinião - Márcia Carvalho

Os impactos das alterações climáticas em destaque

Teresa Freitas é a convidada do segundo episódio do Harvesting Knowledge

Ana Coimbra no 90 Segundos de Ciência

Antena 1 veio à UTAD conhecer a investigação do CITAB

Poda da Vinha

Workshop vai ser ministrado pela investigadora Ana Oliveira

Sustainable Agrifood Production Seminars

Two more presentations from CITAB and GreenUPorto

Cerejas e mirtilos de Trás-os-Montes na Antena 1

90 Segundos de Ciência veio ao CITAB conhecer a investigação nestes frutos

Curso de Apicultura 2024

Coordenação a cargo do investigador Paulo Russo

Alfredo Aires comenta projeto sueco

Investigadores de Linköping, na Suécia, estão a desenvolver o eSoil

CITAB com importante papel em Brumadinho

O impacto do rompimento da barragem nos recursos hídricos tem sido estudado ...

CITAB tem em mãos projeto para melhorar a saúde dos solos

O projeto LivingSoiLL conta com um financiamento global de 12 milhões de euros

CITAB Researchers Among the Most Cited in the World in 2022

This prestigious acknowledgment comes from the latest edition of the "World's...

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Inov4Agro OPEN DAY: Fostering Sustainability in Agricultu...

Around 100 participants were present

Junior Researcher Advancing Wildfire Impact Assessment

José Guisuraga, member of CITAB, is one of the researchers who has secured s...

Inov4Agro Open Day

Results obtained by the different working groups (7 value chains) will be pre...

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Thematic Strand 1

Sustainability of Agri-food and Forestry Ecosystems in a changing environment

Mário Santos

Aims to deliver integrated analytical and modelling frameworks to detect agricultural, forestry and ecological changes in rural landscapes. It will integrate natural and social sciences concepts to develop and integrate novel analytical frameworks and tools that contribute to progress in fundamental and applied fields of environmental research (Task 1.1) and ecological sustainability in agri-food and forestry ecosystems (Task 1.2).

Task 1.1

Integrated monitoring of climate and environmental impacts

Task 1.1 aims to (i) develop and apply new analytical technologies to (ii) understand climatic and environmental forcing on target ecosystems under current conditions; (iii) assess future scenarios of climate and environmental change to develop, test and implement suitable mitigation and adaptation measures, such as riparian restoration (e.g. to assess ecosystem service provisioning of green infrastructures) or bioclimatic cultivar adaptation (e.g. crop zonation).

Task 1.2

Sustainability in agri-food and forestry ecosystems

Task 1.2 researchers are experts in multivariate analysis and modelling of impacts of habitat and land use change on terrestrial and aquatic environments, ecosystem services and characterization of agri-food and forestry systems.

Thematic Strand 2

Technology & innovation in Agri-food and Forestry chains for a more competitive bioeconomy

Raul Santos

Aligned with RIS3 policy, Thematic Strand 2 explores innovative approaches to develop and update processes and technologies to crop and food products, biological materials and agri-food residues. TS2 gives added-value to agri-forestry ecosystems, agri-food and forestry products and co-products, boosting regional and national economic growth.

Task 2.1

Innovative technologies and processes

Task 2.1 focuses on a major unit objective - optimization and development of innovative technology for more competitive agri-food and forestry production chains. TS2 optimizes solutions for current and future stakeholders, boosting competitiveness and income by improving food and forestry crop productivity, reducing management costs and increasing profit.

Task 2.2

Valorisation of bio-based products and and co-products

Task 2.2 studies the potential of agri-food and forestry residues, native flora and aromatic and medicinal plants to develop new high bio-based value products.

Highlighted Project

Eurodairy - A Europe-wide Thematic Network on improving resource use efficiency in dairy farming (GA GA 696364)

Start Date: 2016/02
Duration: 36 months

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EuroDairy is a new international network to increase the economic, social and environmental sustainability of dairy farming in Europe, at a time of unprecedented challenge for the sector.

Funded by the EU Horizon 2020 programme, EuroDairy will foster the development and dissemination of practice-based innovation in dairy farming, targeting key sustainability issues following the abolition of milk quotas: socio economic resilience, resource efficiency, animal care, and the integration of milk production with biodiversity objectives.

EuroDairy spans 14 countries, from Ireland to Poland, and from Sweden to Italy, encompassing 40% of dairy farmers, 45% of cows and 60% of European milk output. The project adopts the interactive model of the European Innovation Partnership, putting farmers at the centre of practice-based innovation, adapting and developing new and existing scientific knowledge to produce implementable solutions, which can then be shared across the network.