Livestock farming against climate change problems posed by soil degradation in the Emilian Apennines
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FEFTS Specifications
Research project
for Soil carbon sequestration
Special practice
Tillage (conservation agriculture + CTF)
Agricultural domain
Open-field agriculture, Greenhouses
Suitable for
Farmer, Producers association, Advisory services, Policy makers, Companies
Applications
Agricultural field practices
Especially
Tilling/ploughing
Type of solution
Methodology, Procedure
Details
Project`s acronym: agriCOlture
Project funding type: EU
Project funding source: Other
Project coordinator: Aronne Ruffini
Coordinator location: Europe
Coordinator email / Contact form: Not available
Project status: Ongoing
Total budget: 1515276
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Additional info
Expected results:
- establishment of one database for accounting and tracing soil uses and change of soil uses, at farm, municipality and regional level;
- development of one proposal for a governance instrument, for implementing European policies at local level to ensure remuneration for the ecosystem services produced by soil and environmental preservation in marginal areas;
- test of best practices on at least 2.5 ha of each demonstration farm, with an increase of this area by 5% at the end of the project;
- 50% increase of Total Organic Carbon (TOC) in carbon-poor soils; and
- estimated 5% reduction of CO2 equivalent emissions at the end of the project, with a reduction of almost 1 200 tons in CO2 emitted by the 15 demonstration farms.
Assessment
This section contains a brief assessment of the FEFTS described.
There are 3 basic categories: General, Environmental and Socioeconomic assessment.
The purpose of this assessment is to give a quick overview to the potential FEFTS user of its application benefits.
For each question, the Likert scale is used with the following possible answers:
Strongly disagree, Disagree, Neither agree nor disagree (Neutral)/non applicable, Agree, Strongly agree
General
This FEFTS contributes to improve the energy profiles of farming systems:Environmental
The application of this FEFTS directly reduces fossil energy use, in terms of:- Tractors and vehicles fuel consumption
- Tools and equipment fuel consumption
- Tillage reduction
Socioeconomic
The application of this FEFTS contributes to cost reductions of farming systems:Keep in mind that this assessment is subjective, based on publicly available information.
All registered users are asked to evaluate each FEFTS and when an adequate number of reviews is gathered the results depicted here are updated. Each review is screened in order to avoid malicious practices.
FEFTS providers who do not agree with the assessment results, can send their inquiry to info@agrofossilfree.eu and a direct action based on their petition will be taken.