The roadmap outlines key research and capacity building priorities, supports soil data harmonisation, policy-making and knowledge implementation.
It is developed for the domain of agricultural soil management and relevant for realising EU agricultural, climate and environmental policy goals.
The roadmap links to key stakeholders across EU. The activities focus on streamlining current research within EU and among member states and identifying knowledge gaps that need to be closed.
The roadmap engages and commits member states and stakeholders across Europe in joining forces to collaborate on relevant research and complementary activities with respect to Agricultural Soil Management. This includes the identification of aspirational targets at regional, national and European level, overview of the current situation of knowledge, identification of barriers and opportunities, synthesis of key soil related issues, and building and updating the roadmap and drafting calls scope.