SOIL HEALTH AND ECOSYSTEN SERVICES: MONITORING AND EVALUATION

HOW TO BETTER INTEGRATE SOIL MANAGEMENT PRACTICES INTO CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION STRATEGIES

Output from the CLIMASOMA project. Identified and summarized socio-economic and political barriers and incentives for the application of soil and crop management in climate adaptation strategies. The results presented are from a stock-take of EU policies and their instruments that impact agricultural management and barriers and drivers at the farm level in relation to improving soil health and climate change adaptation. The work includes perceptions of barriers and drivers that co-determine the willingness of farmers to act and adapt to climate change

SOIL AND CROP MANAGEMENT PRACTICES FOR CLIMATE ADAPTATION

This policy brief contains information that is crucial to decide which actions to stimulate through policy instruments.This brief contains:

• Investigated implications of agricultural management practices for soil hydrological functioning under European agro-environ - mental conditions as a part of the European Joint Partnership Soil.

• Synthesized results of 36 selected meta-analyses 1 (representing data from 2803 unique studies) studying the impact soil and crop management practices on soil hydrological functioning.

• Identified effectiveness of the selected practices, and also remaining knowledge gaps.

• Important trade-offs and synergies related to crop production, water quality, and greenhouse gas emissions were also assessed based on the results of additional published meta-analyses.