WP1: Project management and communication

WP Leader: Aarhus University, AU

WP deputy: Wageningen Research, WR

The overall objective of this WP is to facilitate successful project management, implementation and coordination among partners to optimise the workflow, ensuring progress and achievement of expected results.c.

WP2: Qualitative assessment of strengths and weaknesses of different scheme designs

WP Leader: Wageningen Research (WR)

WP deputy: Institut National de la researche Agronomique (INRAE)

The objectives of this work package:

• Create a representative inventory of European projects and market-based initiatives for carbon sequestration and ESS payments
• Carry out a qualitative assessment of the European projects and market-based initiatives for carbon sequestration and ESS payments in the inventory
• Develop a set of elements for an archetype result-based carbon farming scheme with flexibility to adapt to local and regional conditions.

WP3: Enabling conditions for practitioners and policy makers

WP Leader:  Aarhus University, AU

WP deputy: Johann Heinrich von Thünen-Institut, Thünen

The objectives of this work package:

• Perspectives of land-users and policy makers on different designs of carbon farming schemes in order to deliver fair, adequate and appropriate interventions that yield cost-effective results and which enable additional ESS coupled to carbon farming
• Identify stakeholders’ perspectives on the minimum criteria for the documentation and verification of results and for the establishment of baselines (direct measurements, status of indicators, allocations based on modelled results)

• Assess opportunities and shortcomings in current policy frameworks for the implementation of result-based carbon farming schemes and ESS payments.

• Identify if and how different carbon farming schemes are supporting governmental strategic goals and international climate reporting duties

WP4: A roadmap for improving carbon farming schemes

WP Leader: Institut National de la researche Agronomique (INRAE)

WP deputy: Flanders Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (EV ILVO)

The objectives of this work package:

• Outline how policymakers and practitioners can address the shortcomings identified by WP2 and WP3 with respect to policy, scheme design, and capacities of farmers and knowledge providers
• Provide local ex-ante assessments of how various features of carbon farming schemes affect the economic and environmental performances in different regions/contexts
• Identify how scheme design can best address the trade-offs between a wide adoption and acceptance of result-based or hybrid schemes, the realisation of the environmental potential in a cost-effective manner, and the need to resort to potentially expensive MRV systems
• Develop scenarios for the implementation of schemes that deliver the expected environmental benefits in a cost-effective manner, and are adapted to the local context
• Identify solutions for barriers that hinder the implementation of schemes in practice and propose a roadmap for different governance levels to overcome the barriers and implement schemes

Aarhus University, Department of Agroecology, Denmark
Wageningen Research, The Netherlands
Flanders Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Belgium
National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment, France
Johann Heinrich von Thünen-Institute, Germany
Agroscope, Switzerland
Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety, Austria
Czech University of Life Sciences, Czech Republic
Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, General Directorate of Agricultural Research and Policies, Turkey
 

Publicationlist: 

2024

Smit, A.B., Thorsøe, M.H., van der Kolk, J.W.H., Nikolaus, K., Martinez Garcia, L., Facq, E., Falconi, I., Martelli, A., Erdal, Ü., Heidecke, C., Criscuoli, I., Dara Guccione, G. , Graversgaard, M., Polakova, J., Götzinger, S., Baumgarten, A., Reynders, S., Nogues, M. (2024) Carbon farming schemes throughout Europe, an overall inventory and analysis EJP SOIL Road4Schemes D2.4

Galioto, F.; Criscuoli, I. Martelli, A.; Guccione G.D. and Thorsøe, M.H. (2023) Economic viability of carbon farming under different financial scenarios EJP SOIL Road4Schemes D2.8

Gerits, F; Facq, E. and De Waegemaeker, J. (2023) Exploratory analysis of carbon farming systems in 9 countries on the European continent, EJP SOIL Road4Schemes D4.3

Baumgarten, A.; Götzinger, S.; Thorsøe, M.; Smit, B.; van der Kolk, J.; Criscuoli, I. (2024) Outline of a Roadmap for further introduction of carbon farming and additional ESS payments, EJP SOIL Road4Schemes D4.5

Martelli, A.; Criscuoli, I.; Galioto, F.; Ambrosini F. and Guccione, G. D. (2024) Carbon farming schemes at glance: Report with infographics, EJP SOIL Road4Schemes D1.4

2023

Poláková, J.; Jank˚u, J.; Holec, J.; Soukup, J. - 2023 - Soil-Water Effects of Good Agricultural and Environmental Conditions Should Be Weighed in Conjunction with Carbon Farming. 

Poláková J, Maroušková A, Holec J, Kolářová M, Janků J.  - 2023. Changes in grassland area in lowlands and marginal uplands: Medium-term differences and potential for carbon farming. Soil & Water Res., 2023, 18(4)

2022

Poláková, J.; Holec, J.;Janku, J.; Maitah, M.; Soukup, J.Effects of Agri-Environment Schemes in Terms of the Results for Soil,Water and Soil Organic Matter in Central and Eastern Europe. Agronomy 2022,12, 1585

Bellassen V.; Angers D.; Kowalczewski T.; Olesen A. Soil carbon is the blind spot of European national GHG inventories. Nature Climate Change, 2022, 10.1038/s41558-022-01321-9.

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