AGRI-DRY doctoral network marks a milestone in global education and research on land sustainability in drylands
Published: 15 April 2026
The AGRI-DRY Doctoral Network, coordinated by Pompeu Fabra and Glasgow universities, is consolidating itself as a project for global training and research and becomes a hub for interdisciplinary and international collaboration.
The students and PIs of the MSCA-ITN Agri-Dry Project.
The AGRI-DRY Doctoral Network, coordinated by Pompeu Fabra and Glasgow universities, is consolidating itself as a project for global training and research and becomes a hub for interdisciplinary and international collaboration.
Since its launch in September 2024 under the Horizon Europe Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, AGRI-DRY has quickly grown into an international community of researchers and institutions working together to tackle the challenges of agriculture and sustainability in drylands of Africa and the Mediterranean.
Coordinated by Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) through the CASEs research group in the Department of Humanities (led by Marco Madella, ICREA Research Professor) and the Archaeology section of the School of Humanities at the University of Glasgow (led by Professor Nicki Whitehouse), the network brings together six academic institutions across Europe and Africa: Aarhus University (Denmark), University of Botswana, University of Glasgow, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, University of Salento (Italy), and University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa).
Together, they are training 10 predoctoral researchers in a variety of innovative and interdisciplinary approaches to agriculture and sustainability in arid regions, bridging academia, policy, archaeological evidence, and local knowledge systems.
You can find out more about the project here
First published: 15 April 2026
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