Consiglio per la Ricerca in Agricoltura e l’Analisi dell’Economia Agraria (CREA)
The Council for Agricultural Research and Analysis of Agricultural Economics (CREA) is a national organization based in Roma, Italy. It depends on the Ministry of Agricultural, Food and Forest Policies. It was founded in 2015 by the union of the Research and Experimentation Council in Agriculture (CRA) and the National Institute of Agricultural Economics (INEA).
Roberta Farina
- WP7 leader
- roberta.farina@crea.gov.it
- 0039 202076259
Researcher at the CREA-AA, Agriculture and Environment . Focus on soil management, soil quality and soil organic carbon sequestration in conservation agriculture. Ecosystem models (RothC and WinEPIC) to assess the effect of agricultural soil management and climatic change effect on soil C dynamics in Mediterranean regions.
Alessandra Trinchera
- Regional Coordinator of the Mediterranean North
- alessandra.trinchera@crea.gov.it
- 0039 6 7005413-222
- @ale_trinchera
Alessandra Trinchera, chemist, is researcher at the “Consiglio per la ricerca in agricoltura e l'analisi dell'economia agraria (CREA - Center for research on agriculture and environment) from 2006. She is the Mediterranean North Regional Coordinator in Diverfarming Project. She's skilled on: sustainable agricultural practices (organic management, low-impact fertilisation, etc.); use of innovative organic and organo-mineral fertilisers, amendments, plant biostimulants in horticulture; use of adjuvants for irrigation and fertigation in horticulture for saving water; horticrops grafting for overcoming abiotic and biotic stresses; effect of cover crops and living mulch on competition, allelopathy and root–microbiota interaction in organic horticultural systems.
Antonio Troccoli
- Leader of the long-term experimental plot of rotation cereal and pulses in Italy
- antoni.troccoli@crea.gov.it
- 0039 3281588598
Claudia di Bene
- Co-leader of Task 7.3
- claudia.dibene@crea.gov.it
- @claudiaRM78
Researcher at CREA-AA (Council for Agricultural Research and Economics - Research Centre for Agriculture and Environment). Main research topics include: Long-term field experiment, carbon sink in agricultural soils, cropping systems and simulation models, soil GHGs measurements, data harmonization and integrated assessment of agricultural systems sustainability, and agro-ecological indicators.
Flavia Pinzari
- flavia.pinzari@crea.gov.it
- flavia.pinzari@diverfarming.onmicrosoft.com
- 0039 3475255938
- @FlaviaPinzari
Flavia is researcher at the “Consiglio per la Ricerca e la sperimentazione in Agricoltura”, an Italian Entity of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry for research in agriculture, agro-industry, and forestry. She is currently involved in the study of soil biodiversity and microbial ecology, organic matter dynamics and decomposition. Between 2001 and 2012 she worked at the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage as head of the Biology and Microscopy laboratory. Her publications span over fungal and bacterial ecology, geomicrobiology, physiology and community ecology.
Rosario Napoli
- rosario.napoli@crea.gov.it
Luigi Orrù
- luigi.orru@crea.gov.it
- 0039 0523983758
Luigi Orrù is a molecular biologist with competence in bioinformatics. His current interests lie mainly in the application of next generation sequencing technologies to microbial genomics, metagenomics and gene expression analysis.
Rosa Francaviglia
- rosa.francaviglia@crea.gov.it
- 0039 06 7005413 #228
Rosa is senior researcher at CREA since 1981. Main research topics include: Effect of climate change on agriculture, Carbon sink and agricultural soils, Cropping systems and simulation models; Soil quality indicators and GIS applications, Agro-environmental evaluations and geostatistics, Soil Quality Indicators and EU CAP Good Agro-Environmental Conditions (GAEC).
Valentina Baratella
- valentina.baratella@crea.gov.it
- 0039 067005413
- @Vieltien
Technologist, CREA Communication Delegate. Main research topics focus on the ecophysiology of agricultural and forestry systems, with particular reference to resource use efficiency and agroecosystem sustainability, soil quality, biotic/abiotic interactions and agro-ecological indicators, environmental monitoring, 2D-dynamic spatialization of environmental variables by OSS.
Chiara Piccini
- Co-leader of Task 7.3
- chiara.piccini@crea.gov.it
Technologist, has been working at CREA-AA since 1998. Geologist, her main topics include: spatialization of experimental data using geostatistics and Digital Soil Mapping techniques, soil chemical, physical and hydrological characterization, soil chemical fertility, application of crop simulation models for soil nitrogen and carbon dynamics, soil quality and environmental concerns, monitoring of nutrients leaching from soil, nitrate contamination, statistical data processing, monitoring of soil chemical features, soil water dynamics, irrigation water quality and irrigation with anomalous water.
