LILAS4SOILS is built around a Living Labs approach that brings farmers, researchers, and stakeholders together to co-create and test Carbon Farming Practices (CFPs) for healthier, more resilient European soils.
The Horizon Europe project LILAS4SOILS, coordinated by EIT Food South, has launched a new Open Call for MRV providers to support the testing and validation of innovative technologies for soil organic carbon (SOC) monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) across Mediterranean and Southern European agricultural systems.
With this Open Call, LILAS4SOILS aims to select 50 additional farmers. Selected farmers will be compensated for their efforts in the project with 5,000 euros/year over a period of 3 years.
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LILAS4SOILS Protocol for sampling and data collection (Deliverable D4.1) provides guidelines for selecting the soil sampling design more adequate to the characteristics of the project area (i.e., demo-sites at each Living Lab) and that is mindful of the accuracy-costs trade-offs of MRV. The deliverable includes field and laboratory protocols to measure several soil properties during the project, to assess the effects of CFPs on SOC stocks and other indicators of soil health, soil functions or threats to soil.