Action/Call
Joint Call 2016-WaterWorks 2015Total costs*
22,266,176 €Total requested funding*
18,065,585 €Total projects
21Duration
Jan. 1, 2017 — Dec. 31, 2020Coordinator
Maurice Héral, French National Research Agency (ANR), FranceWater pollution is a worldwide challenge, and agriculture plays a major role in it. Enormous amounts of nutrients, herbicides, organic matter, drug residues and sediments that come from farms, yearly end up in surface waters. A second challenge is the excessive amount of water that farms require. Irrigation accounts for nearly 70% of the world's freshwater withdrawals, which is increasingly problematic in countries that suffer from droughts.
The Joint Programming Initiatives (JPIs), Water JPI (“Water Challenges for a Changing World”) and FACCE-JPI (“Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change”) joined to respond to the grand challenge of achieving a sustainable management of water resources in agriculture, forestry and freshwater aquaculture sectors by:
- Increasing the efficiency and resilience of water uses.
- Monitoring and reducing soil and water pollution.
- Integrating social and economic dimensions into the sustainable management and governance of water resources.
This call belongs to the FACCE-JPI 2010-2020 - Core theme 4 - Adaptation to climate change.
Projects
*Automatic sum of the projects’ total cost and total requested funding estimated at the time of the proposal. These numbers may vary during the projects’ lifespan, please consider the addition as an accurate estimate.
Total costs include in kind contribution by grant holders and can therefore be higher than the total requested funding.