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EFFECT Environmental public goods From Farming through Effective Contract Targeting
EFFECT aims to develop more effective agri-environmental programmes by developing new forms of contracts between farmers and agri-environmental agencies or other actors
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ReMIX Redesigning European cropping systems based on species MIXtures
The aim of the ReMIX project was to analyse and optimize the functioning of species mixtures, also called intercrops, in order to help design sustainable and diversified cropping systems for both conventional and organic agriculture
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Arla Foods’ Sustainability Incentive model
Building on the Climate Check tool, Arla has introduced a point-based Sustainability Incentive model to help fund and motivate actions required to hit its 30% emissions reduction target by 2030 against a 2015 baseline. Under this model, farmers can collect points based on their environmental sustainability activities under 19 different levers.
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SOILCARE – Soil care for profitable and sustainable crop production in Europe
The SOILCARE project developed the concept of soil-improving cropping systems (SICS) to advance the adoption of soil management while ensuring sustainability and profitability.
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REFOREST – Agroforestry at the forefront of farming sustainability in multifunctional landscapes in Europe
The ReForest project aims to overcome the barriers to broader agroforestry adoption in Europe
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LEGUMINOSE – Legume-cereal intercropping for sustainable agriculture across Europe
The goal of the LEGUMINOSE project is to establish intercropping as a climate-smart farming practice. For this, the project will investigate the benefits of intercropping beyond the well-studied effects on nitrogen dynamics, identify the obstacles to adoption of intercropping, and provide farmers across the EU with accessible, actionable, and science-based information for a profitable and…
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TREES4CLIMA – Enabling carbon accounting of trees on farms for agroforestry-based climate action
The EU-funded TREES4CLIMA project will develop and test cost-effective methods to detect and classify agroforestry systems, facilitate carbon accounting and allow advanced environments for agroforestry-based climate finance.