Summary
Food security is an urgent global challenge. To feed a population of 10bn by 2050, we must produce 50% more food despite water scarcity, loss of arable land, & climate change. Lack of water (water stress) severely reduces crop yields. The inability to measure water stress accurately leads to unpredictable and low-yielding harvests, impacting the entire food supply chain from farm viability to food prices. Current crop health data is not fit for purpose, leading to ineffective irrigation consuming 70% of global freshwater. ConstellR will provide the first high-precision temperature data at field level, daily & globally from a uniquely scalable constellation of microsatellites (HiVE), enabling water stress detection in time to prevent yield loss. The EIC project will develop & launch an MVP constellation, generating the data required to increase global food production by up to 4%, reduce agricultural water waste by up to 180 gigatons, & avoid up to 94M tons of CO2 emissions.
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| Web resources: | https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/190139307 |
| Start date: | 01-12-2022 |
| End date: | 31-07-2025 |
| Total budget - Public funding: | 3 506 281,25 Euro - 2 454 396,00 Euro |
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Food security is an urgent global challenge. To feed a population of 10bn by 2050, we must produce 50% more food despite water scarcity, loss of arable land, & climate change. Lack of water (water stress) severely reduces crop yields. The inability to measure water stress accurately leads to unpredictable and low-yielding harvests, impacting the entire food supply chain from farm viability to food prices. Current crop health data is not fit for purpose, leading to ineffective irrigation consuming 70% of global freshwater. ConstellR will provide the first high-precision temperature data at field level, daily & globally from a uniquely scalable constellation of microsatellites (HiVE), enabling water stress detection in time to prevent yield loss. The EIC project will develop & launch an MVP constellation, generating the data required to increase global food production by up to 4%, reduce agricultural water waste by up to 180 gigatons, & avoid up to 94M tons of CO2 emissions.Status
SIGNEDCall topic
HORIZON-EIC-2022-ACCELERATOROPEN-01Update Date
31-07-2023
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