EcoDry Research meeting will be held on Wednesday February 26th 2014 in Coventry. The meeting will discuss agroecology, water, and resilience. Short food supply chains, urbanization, crises in farming and responses, product innovations, new spaces, using dry and marginal lands for perennial crops and greenhouses will all be topics of discussion. Examples of using solar panels on cars and perennial rootstocks for dry lands will also be presented. Partners from Jordan, Egypt, and Afghanistan will participate.

1. EcoDry
Agroecology, Water & Resilience
EcoDry Research meeting Coventry Wednesday 26th
Feb 2014
Dr Ulrich Schmutz, Garden Organic & Coventry University
uschmutz@gardenorganic.org.uk, ulrich.schmutz@coventry.ac.uk

6. Short Food Supply Chains

7. Short Food Supply Chains

8. Urbanisation

10. 05/02/14 10
Crises and response
• Crises in farming e.g. Foot and
Mouth, BSE
• Over half of all adults are
obese or overweight – almost
24million adults
• But recently, improvements in
food culture
• National and regional
strategies for sustainable
farming and food
• Recommendation from the
South East strategy for
sustainable farming and food
for separate London food
strategy.
• Establishment of Mayoral

11. 11
Product innovations
New spaces
The Urban Gardner's
favourite tool

12. Food and Fuel

13. Land use choices - we could do this?

14. Or better this?

15. Example
Solar cars (roof area of cars in the UK available for solar panels)
UK number
(million)
lenth
m
width
m
area
m2
solar
active
m2 ha
Mega
Watt
solar
cars 28,700,000 4.3 2 8.6 2 23% 5,740
other 5,800,000 12 2.5 30 10 33% 5,800
total 34,500,000 11,540 11,540
currently installed 1,000

16. Using dry and marginal lands
perennial crops

17. Perennial crops for dry lands

18. Afghanistan (www.plantforpeace.org)

19. Perennial rootstocks for dry lands

20. Perennial rootstocks for dry lands

21. Perennial rootstocks for dry lands
http://www.slideshare.net/SridharGutam/evaluation-of-salinity-stress-tolerance-in-mango#

22. Perennial rootstocks for dry lands

23. Using dry and marginal lands
greenhouses

24. COST Near Neighbour
Countries
Al-Balqaa Applied
University/ Faculty of
Agricultural Technology ,
Jordan
Cairo University,
Egypt