1. AGRISOURCE - OPEN INNOVATION PLATFORM
To accelerate transformation and innovation in climate-smart agriculture and complex agrifood systems, many diverse actors across international agricultural value chains must be engaged, mapped and connected. Agrisource OIP is Europe's first open innovation platform (OIP) for climate-smart agriculture, developed by CIRAD and INRA, and funded by EIT Climate-KIC's CSA Booster. Agrisource OIP is a new capacity-building tool mapping and connecting inter-related research and innovation programmes. It combines a powerful search engine and expert community-created content to foster public-private partnerships in climate-smart agriculture.
IMPACT: this is a new systemic approach to sustain CSA and accelerate cross-sectoral communication and transformation across international agriculture and food value chains.
STAGE: launched 2017, the project is scaling up, connecting labs and research communities to retail brands and farmers to advance EU climate-smart agriculture
SCALE: initial content focuses on fruit, dairy and wine value chains but it will expand to include new value chains as more communities generate content.  Agrisource resources are currently available in English and French, with additional languages and new functionalities already under development.
The key benefits:
Animal feed can actually be grown in arid regions with dramatically less water (99%)
Animal feeds can be grown on a tenth of the land required for traditional animal crops and a fifth of the costs
At scale, this could transform productivity, affordability and sustainability of this growing $150bn market
A real example which shows the potential: In Saudi Arabia, alfalfa crops used to be grown as feed inputs for their local dairy industry. In 2016, the Saudi Arabian government decided it would no longer grow these crops locally due to depleting aquifers and restricted water supply due to climate change. Instead, it would import 825,000 tons of alfalfa hay per year, the equivalent production of around 82,500 hectares of land. It is hoped, DryGro technology could produce a similar amount of feed using one tenth of the land.