FACCE MACSUR project "Modelling European Agriculture with Climate Change for Food Security (Simulazione con modelli matematici dell’agricoltura europea per la sicurezza alimentare in relazione al cambiamento climatico)"- Theme CropM "Crop Modelling" (2012-2015)

The research group collaborated in a working program involving several integrated teams from Italy, Spain and Germany. The objectives were: i) to improve the use of the models used by the different groups; ii) to compare the results obtained by different modeling tools; iii) to create a common database of field measurements; iv) to study the relationships between vegetative-productive behaviors and quality of productions. A deliverable was a case study on vine in Piedmont, entitled "The case study of vineyards. Eco-physiological and biophysical modeling applied to the growth and productivity of vineyards in northwestern Italy.", which exploited a considerable amount of historical field data related to the vegetative and productive behavior of the vines, as well as laboratory qualitative data.