Evaluation of Crop Residue Management as a Strategy of Adaptation and Mitigation to Climate Change

This paper reports the first results of a research developed in the context of the three-years (2013-16) research project “IC-FAR - Linking long term observatories with crop system modelling for better understanding of climate change impact and adaptation strategies for Italian cropping systems” (www.icfar.it).The goals are :i) to parameterize crop models considering two Long Term Agro-Ecosystem experiments (LTAE) located in experimental farms of Foggia (FG) and Papiano, Perugia (PG), in Southern and Central Italy, respectively and ii) to evaluate the crop residue (CR) management as a strategy of adaptation and/or mitigation to climate change forecasted for the reference areas of the LTEs in study.