{"id":951,"date":"2023-05-16T08:00:01","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T08:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climateindex.eu\/2023\/05\/16\/the-e3ci-index-as-a-key-tool-for-the-development-of-life-ada-adaptation-in-agriculture-a-project-dedicated-to-resilience-to-climate-change-in-the-agri-food-sector\/"},"modified":"2024-01-23T13:32:50","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T13:32:50","slug":"the-e3ci-index-as-a-key-tool-for-the-development-of-life-ada-adaptation-in-agriculture-a-project-dedicated-to-resilience-to-climate-change-in-the-agri-food-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climateindex.eu\/en\/2023\/05\/16\/the-e3ci-index-as-a-key-tool-for-the-development-of-life-ada-adaptation-in-agriculture-a-project-dedicated-to-resilience-to-climate-change-in-the-agri-food-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"The E3CI Index as a key tool for the development of \u201cLife ADA (Adaptation in Agriculture)\u201d, a project dedicated to resilience to climate change in the agrifood sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201cThe climate changes, agriculture reacts\u201d<\/em>, this is the slogan with which the ambitious project <strong>\u201cLife ADA (Adaptation in Agriculture)\u201d<\/strong> presents its aims: to provide <strong>agrifood businesses<\/strong> in the various regions of Italy with useful tools for <strong>understanding the tangible effects climate change<\/strong> has on their business. To achieve this, it relies on the fundamental contribution of the E3CI (European Extreme Events Climate Index), the Index created with the contribution of the IFAB, Leith\u00e0 Unipol and the CMCC, which studies the impacts of extreme climatic events in order to understand them, measure them and predict their scope.<\/p>\n<p>Conceived to increase the resilience of the entire Italian agrifood sector, the project offers companies an innovative digital tool \u2013 the ADA Tool web app \u2013 that allows them to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>increase user awareness<\/strong> regarding climate change and its impact on meteorological scenarios<\/li>\n<li><strong>discover the dangers<\/strong> a farm is exposed to in terms of potential extreme events (wind, drought, hail, late frosts)<\/li>\n<li><strong>raise awareness<\/strong> of the preventive measures to be taken to manage and plan agricultural operations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>By implementing the E3CI index, the ADA Tool web app allows agrifood sector operators to significantly improve their decision-making processes regarding the measures to be adopted to deal with climatic risks and avoid damage to production, with a vision that addresses productive efficiency in the name of resilience.<\/p>\n<p>The project \u2013 which is currently implemented on an experimental basis in the Emilia-Romagna, Veneto, Tuscany and Lazio regions, involving 6,000 farmers \u2013 is coordinated by Unipolsai Assicurazioni S.p.A., funded by the European Union and conducted thanks to the contributions of Arpae Emilia-Romagna, CIA \u2013 Agricoltori Italiani, CREA-PB, Festambiente (Legambiente), Legacoop Agroalimentare Nord Italia, Leith\u00e0 Unipol and Emilia-Romagna Regional Authority. For further information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifeada.eu\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">www.lifeada.eu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe climate changes, agriculture reacts\u201d, this is the slogan with which the ambitious project \u201cLife ADA (Adaptation in Agriculture)\u201d presents its aims: to provide agrifood businesses in the various regions of Italy with useful tools for understanding the tangible effects climate change has on their business. To achieve this, it relies on the fundamental contribution&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/climateindex.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/climateindex.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/climateindex.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climateindex.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climateindex.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/climateindex.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1176,"href":"https:\/\/climateindex.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951\/revisions\/1176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/climateindex.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climateindex.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climateindex.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}