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No Fixed Recipes: What Farmers and Experts Learned Together at the LILAS4SOILS Cross-Fertilisation Workshop
Key findings and implementation insights on cover crops, fertilisation and reduced tillage
How can co-creating solutions move carbon farming forward
Ask farmers whether healthier soils are worth pursuing, and most will say yes. Ask what prevent them from changing their practices, and the answer gets longer: the cost of new machinery, uncertain returns during the transition, unstable carbon prices, and policy frameworks that are still taking shape.
LILAS4SOILS’ Recommendations for Scaling Carbon Farming
Earlier this year, LILAS4SOILS presented at the European Carbon Farming Summit (ECFS26), joining farmers, advisors, technology providers, and policymakers for a session on one deceptively simple question: what does it actually take for carbon farming to work, on the ground, for the people implementing it?
Innovating Soil Carbon Monitoring: LILAS4SOILS Selected 15 MRV Technology Providers
Healthy soils are at the heart of a sustainable food system. Yet measuring the impact of farming practices on soil organic carbon (SOC) remains one of the most technically demanding challenges in the transition to regenerative agriculture.
Enabling Carbon Farming at The Farm Level: What LILAS4SOILS Farmers Need to Scale Adoption?
At the European Carbon Farming Summit, 17th- 19th March, LILAS4SOILS brought together, with our Italian Living Lab #SHARE support farmers, a tech provider, and value chain actors to move beyond theory and create a dynamic conference on real farm-level experience.
Introducing LILAS4SOILS Farmer Network
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.
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What does it take for carbon farming to work on real farms? This deliverable reports on our first co-creation cycle that brought five Living Labs together to research, map out the barriers, opportunities and solutions on the ground.
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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.
Open Calls Archive
Open Call for MRV providers
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.
Open Call to Farmers
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.
Funded by the European Union (Grant no. 101157414). Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union, European Research Executive Agency (REA). Neither the European Union nor any other granting authority can be held responsible for them.
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