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Saving water with tomato suppliers in Spain

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Countries: United States of America
Basins: Mississippi (419)
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Sustainable Agriculture (SDG 2.4)
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Sustainable Withdrawals
Progress to Date: from 79 m3 per tonne in 2012 to 46 m3 per tonne today Reduction in water usage
Services Needed: Financial support
Desired Partner: Investor
Language: English
Start & End Dates: Jan. 01, 2021  »  Dec. 31, 2026
Project Website: www.nestle.com/csv/impact/water/supplier-engagement#saving-w...
Contextual Condition(s): PHYSICAL: Ecosystem vulnerability or degradation
Additional Benefits: Long-term partnership(s) created
Beneficiaries: Agricultural growers
Planning & Implementation Time: More than 3 years
Primary Funding Source: pool
Project Challenges: RESOURCES: Lack of financial resources
Project Source: CEO Water Mandate
Profile Completion: 90%

Project Overview

In the Extremadura region of southern Spain, agriculture is responsible for nearly 90% of water use. With rains both seasonal and scarce, strong water management is key. We have worked with stakeholders throughout the local tomato supply chain to improve water use techniques. This has included installing new technologies such as buried irrigation, humidity sensors and flow meters. Additionally, we have analyzed the soil to optimize fertilizer use. As a result, water consumpt…

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In the Extremadura region of southern Spain, agriculture is responsible for nearly 90% of water use. With rains both seasonal and scarce, strong water management is key. We have worked with stakeholders throughout the local tomato supply chain to improve water use techniques. This has included installing new technologies such as buried irrigation, humidity sensors and flow meters. Additionally, we have analyzed the soil to optimize fertilizer use. As a result, water consumption has reduced from 79 m3 per tonne in 2012 to 46 m3 per tonne today. This has helped our Miajadas facility in Extremadura to become the first European food factory to achieve AWS gold-level certification in 2020.
Basin and/or Contextual Conditions: PHYSICAL: Ecosystem vulnerability or degradation
Project Benefits: Long-term partnership(s) created
Indirect or Direct Beneficiaries: Agricultural growers
Months & Implementing: More than 3 years
Primary Funding Source: Pool funding (i.e., joint funding of several partners)
Challenges: RESOURCES: Lack of financial resources

Project Narrative

The Conservancy will work with our two tenant farmers to incorporate cover crops into their farming operations on Conservancy owned land. The farmers are new to cover crops so we will document their learning journey and share challenges and successes through our 4R Plus marketing platform (www.4Rplus.org) to encourage other farmers and non-operator landowners to work together to implement cover crops. We will work closely with the farmers to assess impacts to yield, financials and the environmental benefits. Annual cover crops will be planted in fall of 2021-2025, and will be terminated in the spring of 2022-2026.

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Christian Vousvouras
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