The DRYAD project contributes to the Mission Adaptation to Climate Change by developing and implementing real-life, climate-resilient nature-based solutions (NBS) for MAEs. DRYAD combines front-line scientific, technological, social, and business innovations as well as transformative solutions.

Funded by
DRYAD project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe Framework Programme for Innovation Actions (2021-2027) under grant agreement No. 101156076 (HORIZON-MISS-2023-CLIMA-01-01- Demonstration of climate resilience solutions in support of the implementation of the Adaptation to Climate Change Mission)

CMCC role
CMCC is leading
– Task 3.3. Agroforestry and productivity model.
Analytical methods will be implemented to represent interlinkages between trees and crops, physiological processes, productivity and other ES of AF systems. These models will be used for specific local evaluation of tree-crops interaction and impact on ES and support to on-site evaluation of NBS and to characterise tree-crops interactions at DRs scale.
– Task 5.1. CBA of the NBS will be developed in the selected PDAs and for the selected NBSs. This will offer a dynamic economic assessment associated with both the environmental, social and economic benefits and with the cost of implementation of
the selected solutions. Once validated, the results of the CBA will be integrated in the modelling (WP3) to identify hotspot areas where policy action is more recommended.
CMCC is contributing to Task 4.3. Adapting Strategies to Environmental Conditions and Stakeholder Needs.
– Task 5.3. Macroeconomic assessment of the application of NBS to analyze the economic gains for the regions in different scenarios of implementation of NBS. This will be done by applying a regional multi-sector macroeconomic model in DRs where the solutions are implemented.

CMCC is contributing to:
– Task 4.3. Adapting Strategies to Environmental Conditions and Stakeholder Needs
Subtask 4.3.1 – Combating water scarcity
Subtask 4.3.2 – Capacity training and implementation of the solutions.

Activities
CMCC contributes with modelling agroforestry interactions between climate, vegetation and
management in silvopastoral systems, to evaluate farming productivity, ES, and effectiveness of vegetation as NBS and sustainable development.

Expected results
(1) Enlargement of key strategic hydrological and ecophysiological datasets for MAEvariables;
(2) LoRaWan communication network for near-real time stakeholder data availability;
(3) Userfriendly and fully web-based GDMS for assessing changes over MAE by stakeholders; (4) Definition of targeted ecosystem indicators at DR scale to assess the
environmental and socio-economic impacts in MAE (5) Guidelines for development of metrics to evaluate the performance of implemented NBS

Coordinating organization
UNIVERSIDADE DA CORUNA

Partners
UNIVERSITEIT TWENTE, UNIVERSIDAD DE CORDOBA, Laboratorio Nacional de Energia e Geologia I.P., IST-ID ASSOCIACAO DO INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TECNICO PARA A INVESTIGACAO E O DESENVOLVIMENTO, INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE AGRONOMIA, UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI SASSARI, CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE, INSTITUTO ANDALUZ DE INVESTIGACIONY FORMACION AGRARIA PESQUERA ALIMENTARIA Y DE LA PRODUCCION ECOLOGICA, UNIVERSIDAD DE EXTREMADURA, GEOPONIKO PANEPISTIMION ATHINON, FUNDACION EMPRESA UNIVERSIDAD GALLEGA, I-CATALIST SL, COMISSAO DE COORDENACAO E DESENVOLVIMENTO REGIONAL DO ALENTEJO, UNAC UNIAO DA FLORESTA MEDITERRANICA, DIMOS XIROMEROU, AGENZIA FORESTALE REGIONALE PER LOSVILUPPO DEL TERRITORIO E DELL AMBIENTE DELLA
SARDEGNA, CONFAGRICOLTURA NUORO OGLIASTRA, FEDERACION ESPANOLA DE LA DEHESA, GESTIONE FORESTALE RESPONSABILE SERVIZI SOCIETA A RESPONSABILITA LIMITATA IMPRESA SOCIALE, FONDAZIONE ALBERITALIA ETS, AGROOF, FUNDACION PATRIMONIO NATURAL DE CASTILLA Y LEON, COMPANHIA DAS LEZIRIAS SA, CONSEJERIA DE AGRICULTURA, PESCA, AGUA Y DESARROLLO RURAL, SOCIEDAD COOPERATIVA ANDALUZA GANADERA DEL VALLE DE LOS PEDROCHES