Mission Soil Week – Day 1 Late Morning session: The Mission Soil in a Nutshell
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And gentlemen we have have uh a little over 300 people joining us online so absolutely it is it is a huge community that we have together here so whether you are here in the room or online I trust you enjoyed your coffee break and you are ready for the next part of our
Session I think we are good to go wonderful so we started with an excellent overview from Professor Bridget EMT about the research the issues that there are when it comes to uh whe it comes to Pete when it comes to construction use putting more soil into
Landfills whatever it was she gave us a really good overview of what the state of soils are across the EU what we’re going to do now is turn to policy not only to hear what policies have achieved but also to hear from three different land managers who are dealing with those
Policies and to find out how that is working for them and what they feel they need to do next but what we will do is start with the policies from the very top so please ladies and Gentlemen please welcome the head of the units research and Innovation at DG agre at
The European commission please welcome Ken rosnov thank [Applause] you thanks a lot uh it’s a real pleasure for me to here and if Bridget gets the right to get emotional so I think I get that right too because if we would be standing here four years ago when we
Actually started working out on this project which is the soil Mission nobody would have believed that we really get it even to the stage to a European Horizon mission and I think for me this is very important to really say as an entry state statement because uh already
The the speakers before have said it uh so and also uh ma our head of cabinet mentioned it so the mission is not just another European research project so we need a lot of European research projects it’s by no means dimin about what we do but the idea was really a different one
Was really to say okay we start with a given societal challenge we try to get it up on the research policy Farmers Foresters Civil Society agenda and we try to pull all the actions that we can at European level Under One Roof and we try to get common action going so when I
Was listening to the Secretary General here uh before saying that the mission sparked uh action on different ways of soil mapping or um different uh policy commitments or action on fertilizer use or whatever so that is really something where I say okay I do get a bit
Emotional so because this was not a given and at the time we started out at least at EU level but also somewhere else soil was more like a niche area whereas what Bridget made brilliantly clear you know it’s the very basis it’s really the basis for so many things
Without which we cannot live so it was not let’s say at the level where it should be neither on the policy agenda nor on the research agenda so this is why even if our goal is not make EU soils healthy by 2030 in the mission it
Is at the EU soil uh uh strategy and also part of the legislative framework so we’re there and soil is there and the Very uh proof here that we can fill a room with all of you here and be together and really exchange with the community on
The level that we do policy research and all of this together really makes a difference so I think that that’s really a great thing that we managed to get the mission there in the first place so now um this is a very bad slide so lots of
Things nobody can read so but okay there is a message with this so and BR has already been partly showing it soil is the one single resource that is in most of the green deal strategy of course apart from climate maybe but it’s everywhere uh so we have managed to be
Or get a central focus in as many S12 green deal strategies across the board if we talk about forest climate rural areas uh whatever soil is Central and that also reflects where it is today on uh on the political agenda and that is quite important for us as a basis and
Also giving us the legitim to to act further and also in the end put the money where our mouth is so also support all of this so because it doesn’t come without a cost so I think that is Central and uh this here is what we call
Jokingly the Holy Trinity of soil at U level huh so it’s very important than when we started out that there was not even an attempt at creating Anu policy framework so soil is the one not producted natural resource at EU level so we have water we have air for a
Number of years but we failed for the most important no I shouldn’t be saying this so the others are important as well but so for a central natural resource we failed to create this EU uh policy framework so this is really a chance that we have now uh so that we can
Really work together and for us also it mean it really means a different way of working together huh so you see here we have representatives from the Spanish Research Ministry from the agricultural Ministry uh from all kinds of we will have uh from the ecological transition
Uh part so this also reflects that EU policy level we have been working together in a different way so we have really trying to pull these things together and to really create and work on the issues ahead so the soil strategy but now when we for instance were working together with our colleagues
From DD environment on the soil monitoring law and also on the sustainable carbon Cycles communication we were doing it together and we were looking okay what can we through the mission provide as means to actually enable the goals of these strategies or of these directives and it’s a different
Way of working uh so and we work uh Bridget was saying it very clearly if we don’t monitor if we don’t even first of all know what soil health is and how we Define it so where are we what do we monitor then it’s very difficult to
Shape actions so I I think this is while this Trinity of working together with policy framework with observation and in the end Pro provide ing research and Innovation results uh and co-creation on Innovation and creating impact on the ground this can make things move even if soils move
Slowly so uh I think that’s uh key uh from this uh point of view just a word more on the directive on soil monitoring and resilience uh so that uh has been proposed so now we hope it will be adopted because it’s one one thing to
Propose it so it’s one thing to get it adopted and it’s one thing to have meaningful action in it so this is all of you this is really your job apart from signing the soil Manifesto so really going out there and making sure that uh our politicians who will decide
On this on the future knows what are at stake and will make sure that as many as high as let’s say uh the ambition can be will be part of of this legislative framework so uh the the the directive sets the objectives defines uh also very heavily also uh uh having worked
Together on this with the European environmental agency with what the mission board did uh as a basis in terms of indicators monitoring assessment is key of course Support Services sustainable soil management also the contaminated side as Bret was saying uh so there we are yeah so things to do and
It’s costly so also funding and Reporting so we’ve just started the political process and we hope that this law or this directive will be approved as soon as possible so just to show you a little bit how closely and these things are interconnected so we have inbuilt uh so this directive already
Action of the soil uh Mission uh so if you read not only uh the entry pages of this it’s very clear the soil mission is mentioned already at many places where basically your action so is going to be Central for for for the goal that and the ambition that this directive sets so
Uh we we we have really the policy framework that frames uh future action which is great so the objectives obviously are uh um are common but we also um have a number of actions for instance uh on harmonization of the monitoring framework so transfer functions and interlaboratory calibration there’s uh increased
Knowledge on soil health indicators so when soil’s capacity of delivering ecosystem Services is lost and so on and also knowledge on which practices in specific soil types for instance climatic conditions and land uses uh really uh Translate so there’s more so uh there is to come
But these are just a couple of areas where we will closely work in the coming years uh so to provide input uh into this process so um we’ve talked about it before uh so you all know uh the the the specific objectives so britad has also showed them and I think it’s Central
Here again even if I’m from the directorate Agriculture and rural development this doesn’t mean that we only work on agricultural soils and that is Central so we work on all soils and on all land uses so we work on Urban soils as much as we work on Forest soils
As much as we work on agricultural soils and that’s Central so it’s a comprehensive set without which we will not achieve uh the goals that we have set ourselves and for some of the areas it’s maybe a bit we H we have to yeah do
A bit more capacity building h so to get uh actions going so that that we we can already see a little bit then you all know the four areas of action that the mission works at so of course we continue to have an research and and and Innovation program the mission is rooted
In research and Innovation but goes much Beyond as you’ve just seen policy action action on the ground action with civil society so uh in in terms of socioeconomic research and Foundations there’s still a lot to do so uh business area and so on and also obviously on all the other
Areas so we know a lot about soils but not everything so we have to continue that but then we have to also create impact on the ground uh and I also take already take a minute here to talk about living labs and lighthouses it’s very fashionable
I would say the last 10 years to speak about living gloves so yes but then I will tell you so maybe um yeah where but even when we were getting together at the mission board and we were kind of uh trying to set out what do we mean when
We talk about living livs I can tell you it took us a half year to agree what we talk about and then we have uh now worked for almost two years with the European network of living LS to make sure that we get something out there which reflects a real bottomup approach
So living labs are in our definition not another set of experimental Farms or demo farms uh working together with research institutes already for for a number of uh of years no it’s really from a bottom up program from a given farmer or Forester having a given
Program in a uh problem in a or Challenge in a given pedoclimatic condition to find the research or The Innovation or uh whatever else can be as a media so business whatever on the ground to help him find or her a solution on a given problem so and then
You know exactly that this is not the typical action we would uh Implement under any given research uh and Innovation program at EU level so it takes time it takes capacity building but the idea is really to have impact on the ground because it’s not the usual
Actors that are already in there that are aware and that obviously makes it more difficult so that’s why why we need all of you here so that’s that’s key then soil monitoring so that we have already said so no it’s not undoable so we have to do it let’s do it Lucas
Covers part of it individual action cover part of it but we’re not there yet so we have to do more and we will and last but not least soil communication and citizen engagement and again there citizen engagement is something again which is very popular but those of you
Who have been in real citizens engagement event in a given national language really trying to get the ordinary citizens who doesn’t know maybe about what we do at EU level and how it all works and whatever engaged is not so easy it’s a challenge so I I I can
Testimony I can build testimony of that having been in some of those events so where are we of course a little bit of uh where we are with the implementation so we have had three consecutive work programs for research and Innovation so uh slowly phasing in setting up the
Structures uh but hoping to be in cruising speed uh so we have already invested over 300 million into the different areas that we work at so we have many of the projects that work on given are that you’ve seen in this uh uh four uh in the slide before on the four
Four areas so um it’s it’s it’s time during this event to find out where we are already uh you will see some more typical research and Innovation projects but also some less so so for instance for the sad living Labs so we had a project holding engagement sessions so
In all member states to make sure that we even get ready for applications for the living Labs so uh we we have things where we work into territorial management agreements uh for soil health for instance and other things uh so there’s a lot of uh things going on and
Some of the the projects that we started already have results and it’s great that we have many of them here where you can find out more and also get some concrete things which are useful for your daily work so uh um in the 22 work programs we worked on
All the mission building blocks so to build up the living L support structure on monitoring for instance on soil carbon and GHA balance monitoring uh so for the mission repository carbon farming uh soil pollution and restoration and more so we also will launch uh the international research
Consortium on carbon uh that is an important event on the in International part of the mission later and with the 23 work program so the most important uh area maybe in terms of challenge it’s not more important than other areas of course but was the launch of the living
Lab call where we were not sure if we would even get enough proposals for the sad uh uh difficulty or challenge also for instance how do you reward Farmers or Foresters or urban communities when they dedicate time uh so when they come and work with us on on the given uh
Challenge for instance just to say a very few practical things so this was quite challenging and cumbersome and many here in the room so the policy actors which were actually promoting this uh so also from the member State Side so we had very long and complicated discussions uh whether this would be
Breakable or break downable and if we would actually even get applications for this so uh yes and I mean I’m I’m standing here even now uh being about emotional or being proud so uh we had many many more applications than we actually expected so that is something
Which is really rewarding for us and for the work now we have to see the other way around how do we manage the expectations because uh this is a thing it’s a lot of effort if you apply for any of these things especially and it’s not a typical project and then if you
Cannot be rewarded by winning the project of course we have to see that uh we we there are more um um opportunities where the the community can can build in and this is good because this was just a pilot call that we launched and we’re going to roll out this action over the
Next couple of years so it’s going to be really good for all of us because there’s more to come so don’t despair if you hand Ed in a proposal you’re not going to be in the first line so it’s for sure there’s more opportunity coming up so maybe also what is important
Because that’s what we worked on that we have five missions we have missions on climate we have a mission on oceans we have a mission on health so and uh our mission board chair when he started out his work he used to say quite uh self-confidently the so mission is at
The very heart of this because of course soil relates to car carbon to climate of course soil relates to health and safe food of course uh uh soils relate to filtering of water and so on so and we also have to make sure that between the
Missions we have to work in a more integrated manner to make sure that we kind of catch all these different angles to the best we can so we also work together with the colleagues of the other areas and Bridget will be happy to note that we also work on subsoils so
Which was before cor an area where we work a lot on top soils but not necessarily there so we also try to cover gaps that we do so uh on on the living labs and lighthouses so again a little bit so living Labs sites for experimentation bottom up uh involvement
Creating real impact on the ground and lighthouses for demonstration uh so that’s a different type so it’s can be a living lab who has already done something which is good so to show off we already have a number of lighthouses Lighthouse Farms will be there for the
Third day I know so this is very good because this helps with experimentation and demonstration because what we in the end really want is core action on the ground so to empower rapid transition the living Labs will have the potential to do this uh so it was mentioned before
Because we often get asked 100 living living laps well is this really a man on the moon uh uh headline goal U maybe not so but if you know that under the 100 living labs and uh lighthouses you have over thousand maybe up to 2,000 testing sites all over Europe in the different
Condition it’s quite an achievement if you think it in terms of an area where it’s not yet a demonstration form or an experimental form but where really it is an uncovered let’s let’s put it like that uh soil of public action so this is important so it’s really an an end user
Approach and it’s also adapted very much to local ecosystems of course so to finish a word on soil literacy communication and citizens engagement so uh a lot has been done this is even if uh there’s of course uh not so many ordinary citizens here today but still it’s part of the engagement uh
So of course we have the soil Mission Manifesto which we’ve launched uh in April and uh we have many more things uh that we’ve done so we’re engaging with and activating municipalities and regions this is something where we’re still quite weak where we actually we still have uh means to do because this
Is important that we get these actors on board because this is finally where the actions really takes place so it’s also fostering soil education across Society so this is important that we get soil into the curricula everywhere across Europe and you know at European level we don’t have a European education
Policy but uh we have the means to give advice or to get uh into professional General schools uh curricula and this is really important because believe it or not this is not something which is NE necessarily covered everywhere citizen science is important and also the Next Generation of soil advisers Bridget was
Mentioning it this is indeed key we also work on it under the common agricultural policy to get a set of advisers who know what is not the latest test technology necessarily but the best adapted technology for a local given problem problem so that the farmers doesn’t know
He looks to the neighbor maybe yeah okay now I’m talking about Farmers again for Foresters of course as well so this is key so we have to make more there and then just uh a cuse to say so what have we achieved so far and um I think what
Is key a part from the living Labs now starting so is that the mission is integrated in 18 out of the 28 common agricultural strategic plans uh so this might sound again very bureaucratic but this is you know this is the very means so if we do something
Under research and Innovation so how do we get action and how do we get the funding from different policy areas to also help us Implement all of this and this is really key that we work more across the different policies at European level but also at National
Level very much so and this is also there we have a fantastic tool the European Innovation partnership the EIP agre which can actually replicate and upscale with funding under the rural development programs uh what we do under the soil Mission and that is really important so that the different
Authorities also talk to each other so that we really get some action going so we also have with a European Investment Bank we’re developing for instance a large scale soil investment pipeline so this is also important for the very costly projects so talking about soil decontamination and so on so that we get
Uh investment at a different scale going uh so and then of course also I mean we talk about EU soils here but I mean we have to talk about soils GL globally as well so we do not have to forget about the international uh um yeah let’s say
Dimension of this and also under the mission we are fostering this so we’re on a good way uh so uh it’s it’s good so we’re on track on some of the things but we have to become better so we have to strengthen and have a better coordinated administrative governments so we have to
Secure more and better co-investments also Beyond Horizon Europe including from the private sector so we have to enhance the synergies with other EU instruments and also improve the communication efforts uh and Outreach to stakeholders so uh it’s good that we start for instance working with philanthropic uh organizations across
Europe so this is a specific call so uh really there’s means for working together so we’re quite open I think we’re now equipped to also translate this into concrete actions and not just uh let let’s say an oral commitment that soils are important for all of us but
How can we actually do this how can foundations or private sector that have additional means actually team up with us so that’s also something uh which we’re trying to manage uh and get better at so the soil Mission Manifesto please sign it and please get your municipality
Your region to sign it this is important so I’m sure that a lot of municipalities and regions are out there already doing so many good things so please capit I on it so we often get the question so what’s in it for me why should I sign it
Is it just declaratory or what what’s really there but it’s really beard of coming a community you gain visibility and access also to Mission knowledge involvement in activities and this is much Beyond just simple research and Innovation calls so I think that’s key so out there there should be some
Colleagues with the manifesto so uh well and last but not least please Vis visit the mission soil platform if you have any question left open or want to know more this is it and now we go to the real testimonies that will put this uh into practice Thanks a Lot K thank
You thank you thank you so much Kirsten so if you didn’t get the QR code that was on screen there I don’t know whether that’s the same one or not that takes does that one take you through to signing it that one should do great so if you
Didn’t get the QR code before there it is that takes you straight through to the manifesto so you can sign it and as Kirsten said we have them outside as well so during the lunch break you can use that QR code and if you’re watching us
Online there you go you can zoom in on that on your PC screen at home and uh and make sure you sign the manifesto so as Kiron said what we are going to do now is basically get into the detail and hear from three case studies three examples three different land managers
Working with agricultural forest and urban soils to find out what they are doing but also what instruments they are using and actually probably picking up from some of the things that Kirsten was talking about enhancing those synergies getting the collaboration the coordination the standardization just to
See what what they are doing um so we are delighted to have the three of them here with us we’re going to start with a land manager who’s working with agricultural soils um who as part of her work helps Farmers throughout southern Spain she’s also the founder of the
Regeneration Academy so ladies and Gentlemen please welcome to Stage Yanik shoven hello everyone uh my name is yanova and here on this beautiful picture you see me with my husband Alonso and our kid and in my belly another one um I am a farmer of the re of Luna uh Luna is
Based in the south of Spain um we are based in a semi-arid area in Mia in the between andalia and Mia actually and we are in quite an extreme climate uh we have around 300 liters of rain a year uh we have Summers that are completely dry now also Winters that are
Completely dry um we have cold Winters actually we have a frost season from September until May uh because we are at 11 100 m altitude and you could say we are in the middle of nowhere um that’s what people say and even so they do come to us so
That’s a good sign but um we are in a region that is quite depopulated um the closest by Village that actually has people living there more than five is uh 30 kilm away um and it’s getting more and more uh depopulated so what you see is that uh
The farms around us uh people leave some people already say that it’s very difficult to still make a living um there is very little irrigation there’s very little water and unfortunately at the moment the little water that is there is now taken by companies that come from the coast to uh PL PL
Vegetables um and so also our aquifers are actually emptying on a very very rapid uh pace so we are yeah in an extreme uh situation let me see how I get to the next one oh yes no yes um as I said before we are an 1100 hectare
Farm um we are almost all rain fat we have two hectars of irrigation for uh for our own use for some vegetables and some other things um and we are also an educational Hub uh for people to learn about regenerative agriculture so we have people coming from all over the
World to learn how to actually Implement regenerative practices how to improve our soils our biodiversity um and we also work a lot with uh local high schools which is really great so last yeah last half year we had over a thousand students uh coming to our farm
Uh to learn about climate change to learn about uh soil Health um and especially to learn that it is possible to actually do something and it is possible to live on a farm to work on a farm that uh is not degrading the landscape and you can make a living of
It um why do I say you can make a living of it because when we started 14 years ago when Alonso started to take over the family farm it was a conventional cereal farm and it had one worker now we are regenerative organic we have over 25 full-time people working on the farm
We have over 20 crops and we have an average increase of organic matter of 1% um so even in a semi-arid area it is possible it’s doable it is work but it’s not that difficult um and I would really recommend it to everyone so in the Regeneration Academy which is based on
Luna we work um to change to trans form the AGR food system we do this uh on a local level with uh local high school students uh but also we organize events for Farmers so last two weeks ago we had an event with the benchmarks European project uh where 50 local farmers came
To um learn about soils learn how to improve their soil health and they brought their bag of uh soil to get it tested uh by the university and uh on an international level we work within Europe to share what we know that works uh in our
Context of course and um to also learn from other people from other Farmers because I think in farming um there’s always more Innovation and ways of uh of improving so just to get into a few practices because I only have six minutes um some things that we do we we
Have dug over 60 ponds on our farm um we started with some crazy project of uh a very big pond which cost us €10,000 after which we decided you can also start small um because that pond almost uh got flooded Away by a very big
Storm um but it does help and it does make a difference we see little ecosystems thriving all over the farm having water all year round which is quite unique in a very dry area within one week after digging a pond we already have thousands of frogs there um we see
The soil change a lot around this ponds um it becomes a lot darker uh there’s grass green grass uh even in summer um and actually this is one of the ways that we use to infiltrate the water slowly to refill the aquafers another thing that we do um is
We plant Hedges and borders all over the farm so we have around 30,000 trees and shrubs planted as Hedges and borders all over our farm which is many many many kilometers of uh plantings and we see that there is a huge increase in biodiversity this is of course the above ground
Biodiversity uh a lot of pollinators coming back as this is such a dry area where we live um it’s very difficult for pollinators to stay all year around because uh in summer there’s just not no flowers uh and winter also not there’s just a very short period of flowers uh
But because of these plantings uh we see that we have a lot more pollinators all year round because we work with uh specific species that can help the ground cover that we do um is challenging uh as we have very little rain but I’m going to show that better here
Um yeah as a regenerative farmer you’ll always hear no till but we are also organic um so there you get a bit into the difficult part um so what we’ve done we said okay let’s go no till uh then we had all our p sto Tre
Is almost dying because no till with a very poor soil is a very bad idea um and then we said okay let’s talk to experts on how to actually do this we also put a lot of students on this and at some point we saw that if we had vegetation
Strips um that could actually work and there was not a negative effect on our yields um the trees did well and because of the vegetation trips we also stopped erosion almost completely so it’s a compromise it’s not perfect um but it works and we hope that by improving our
Soil Health little by little um we will be able to have a a bigger ground cover every year yes um we’ve now been busy for 14 years on our farm and we are ready to scale out so we have already been doing this on uh a thousand more hectares on other Farms
Where we’ve transformed the Farms to become organic and regenerative uh but we are part of a big valley of 30,000 hectares uh of which we are actually uh the source of a river the river starts at Luna and up till 10 years ago it flowed all the way down
Through the valley uh both in winter and summer and since a few years ago the river is dry um and the valley has filled up with very intensive Vegetable Farms so our big audacious goal is to restore this Valley um by regenerative practices by working together with many many farmers
Um and bringing back the river we we hope that in 20 years we have managed to do this that we can drink the water from this River again which was drinkable up to a few months ago and that there’s more people living in this Valley with us thank you a
Lot yeah thank you do you do you want to do you want to come and take a seat um all our guests have agreed to take questions at the end so as you’re listening to the presentations if you’d like to submit a question if you watching us online or here in the room
Please do use slido and um we can get through as many questions as possible at the end that’s all right with you fantastic um so started with agricultural soils we’re now going to move on to Forest soils um and here from someone who’s actually been Consulting
On EU projects since what 2016 so from Bavaria where she focuses on Agro forestry please welcome Theresa [Applause] Luba hello it’s nice uh to be here invited to present um a project from a Forester um from Bavaria from lansburg amle which is close to Munich he’s called Ludwick pattle and he’s actually
Fighting for sustainable Forest management with a focus on soil and ecosystem services for already 40 years now and this is kind of his last project before he retires or he’s actually already tired but he doesn’t stop working for his his big dream and I’m very happy that I can present this
Project to you today um as I said live future Forest um it’s a almost four-year project we are at the end of the project and it’s about the sust sustainabil zation of forests and soils and the valorization of ecosystem services and um climate change is a big challenge
Also in the forests um as we have less water in the vegetation period um with this little water that we have um in Bavaria and all over Europe we have a lot of um uh Sprout forests who have um only very little Roots into to the deeper areas and therefore with the less
Water that we have we also have a change in potential vegetation and from our point of view um the best way to go through this change with the climate we need healthy and living soils um we are aware that healthy and living soils are very important in agriculture but uh
What we notice is that in forests the focus on soil is mostly forgotten when I’m talking about healthy and living soils um I’m talking mainly about three parameters how we can what is needed that we are focusing on in our project it’s the humus forms it’s the
Fine roots and it’s the earthworms um as you can see on on the right hand side um in the in the slide all of those three parameters are in um influencing each other meaning that when we have soil we need a healthy and living soil underneath Sprouts there’s no Healthy
Living Souls it’s very acid uh there is little uh little biodiversity so we need to improve proove the soil we cannot just change the soil as it is so we have to make it in a different way and our um point of view is that we have to focus
On the trees meaning we need trees uh that have a lot um of fine roots that have deep roots that they can actually have a better water availability and the fine Roots also provide nutritions furthermore we have to focus on trees that have um I’d say yummy leaves for earthworms because if we
Plant trees that have a lot of uh tanic acid in their leaves then the earthworms are not going to come and we all know that earthworms are like really important to improve the soil um the soil and and uh the humus and therefore one of our ideas is really to plant
Earthworm friendly trees um that provide many and deep fine roots to improve the soil itself um as you can see here also on the right hand side um this nice graphic it shows that we want to go away from Sprout uh from Sprout monocultures towards um a deas mainly the CDs mixed
Forest um with a healthy living soil where we have a lot of soil biodiversity and earthworms because we think that the better the soil is um the better the trees can grow and the higher is the resilience of the forest towards climate change and obviously we are we do not
Just want want an adaptation and aforestation of the forests um in Bavaria and in lansburg but we also want to contribute to an eu-wide acceptance and implementation of sustainable for Forest management with a focus on soils for this um the system that we um developed we developed also three tools
To make this easy applicable and replicable in other areas meaning we designed a self assessment tool for Forest owners we designed a valorization system with a focus on ecosystem services and in the end the future Forest handbook um bringing all everything that we created during this project together and I would like to
Present you those three tools um our future Forest self assessment tool it’s a very simple tool to see um in an easy way for a forest owner what his or her forest look lies so we evaluate different categories in the forest to see what is the overall
Level of the forest um on the very top we have the tree species so uh we want to we have to see do we have a lot of coniferous trees or more Deus trees um then also we have to see what is what is the soil like what humus form do we have
Is it raw humus like mold or is it m humus um important is also the type of cultivation do we have a monoculture um are the trees all the same age or is it more a planta like forest with a different structure and um and different
PR species and what is also important is the natural regeneration the the browsing and so every Forest owner by himself or with the help of a Forester of the forest owner association can actually then um evaluate their forests and see okay what is the O overall level that
They have I also brought you two examples what we mean with level one and level four you can see on the left hand side we have um it’s a monoculture it’s only uh keros uh trees um of one age and on the level four where we say okay this
Is what the forest of the future should look like we have mainly Deus trees uh we have a mixed age structure and we have this yeah this Splinter Forest like structure okay now we know where we stand but we have to improve our forest actually to
To move forward and we have to generate a motivation for the forest owners to change um their their Forest management and for this we think it’s very important to have a valorization so we created a valorization system as we think that the current valorization systems are only focusing or mainly
Focusing in CO2 and this is way too shortsighted because a forest is not only um saving CO2 um but it’s also creating very important ecosystem services so our future Forest fund shall honor this ecosystem services and it shall also honor the long-term added value of a forest and not just um give
Money to Forest owners who are changing their their Forest currently but uh create a value for the for the ones who already have a level four Forest um we think that it should be uh between 100 and 400 per Hector per year um for uh for a forest depending on its level
And we think that it should be paid by companies and by municipalities our main objective is that the the local establishment that we have currently in in one municipality in the county of lansburg should be also implemented by more municipalities and Forest associ ations all over Germany
And all over Europe um because this is important to generate a motivation and rewards for Forest owners to push the sustainable Forest man management and also to generate an appreciation of the so Society because in the end all inhabitants of the area um have an added
Value of an Healthy Living forest with a healthy living soil um and to make this um sustainable Forest management uh uh replicable we are currently creating a handbook for sustain for the sustainable adaptation of forests it’s created for municipalities and for Forest owners and it’s a handon guidance on both why and
How to manage your Forest um with a focus on living soils and we will publish this in the beginning of 2024 and I I hope that many of you who are working with forests are actually looking at the handbook and forwarding to the people who own forest and can change
Something thank you for your attention Teresa thank you very much thank you come come and take a seat and again um do remember to put any questions in that you’ve already thought of and we will try and get through as many as possible particularly interested actually to know on the level of the
Finance and where that came from and how that that could work thank you so um forestry agriculture our next area where’re going to focus on is urban soils and we have an expert here in the field of public action currently concentrating on various Urban projects throughout Le uh very pleased to welcome
Joining us now Jia pentra Jia thank [Applause] you um hello everyone my name is jentra I work in L Metropol as an urban agriculture project manager uh in advance let me to tell you that I am a bit sorry about my English because I don’t have many opportunities to speak
English but for me it was today a real opportunity to be here to share with you uh our vision and solution about SCE management and it’s why I have decided to go out from my from my comfort zone and please be Indigent with me and make
Maybe I will need my colleague Vim to help me for for translation we will see okay about my presentation uh few words about L metropo um okay this this is the agenda um L Metropol is an urban and Public Authority we are located in north of France we are very close to free
Capitals one hour by train from London and Paris and one half hour from bristell we have um uh 95 municipalities more than 1 million inhabitants and we have two billion Euro yearly budget in order to act in different policies such as Urban Development Economic Development transport culture water energy agriculture
Etc about my presentation um uh another information uh 50% of our uh territory is concerned by agricultural activity um um about my presentation I have three messages to share with you today one at operational level the second at strategic level and third at European level at operational level today L Metropol support three
Agriculture Urban project and in this Frame we realiz those analyzes and because our industrial past All Souls are polluted and um and our souls are not compatible with agriculture agriculture for food um expert propos us to remove top Source polluted to replace it by healthy Source but the problem is we don’t have
Healthy Souls it’s more and more difficult to find this resource because it have been overe exploited and it’s more and more expensive when we fight it but we have to answer the policy uh political order and uh we have to find solution in short term um expert propose
Uh and this is why sorry it’s the next uh okay um expert propose uh the the the name the word in French is technosol I don’t know if if it’s the same word in English and to uh to respect our main goal to develop our agriculture project we have decided to
Build a research action program this program bring together uh several stakeholders we have uh public and private Laboratories we have private companies we have startup we have Urban uh Urban Farmer Association and Public Authority the main ambition of This research Action Program is to uh to identify the resources available at the
Scale of our territory when I talk about resources I talk about organic and M and mineral material mineral material from works uh public rocks and the main idea it to is to test um different recipes with uh with different resources in order to uh to monitor the restoration of function
Of souls I talk about uh fertile function uh carbon sequestration water storage and Sal has a support of biodiversity the main idea is if we we use healthy material uh maybe we will uh start uh project Urban project uh Urban agriculture project uh without delay uh we signed a contra a research
Action uh a contra uh last week for 500 and ,00 500,000 uh with the national Fones and we have ambition to have European funds to to go further we have funds for two years of monitoring um to go further at the Strategic level we want to take advantage of this
Uh research Action Program to question the legal framework at European level um let me to explain you because today uh when you develop an urban plan on an urban project you have of course you have to identify your needs your program housing public facilities transport Etc
And only after you have to ID identify the negative impact of your program of your needs on environment in order to reduce to avoid to reduce and to compensate for it but the problem with this approach is that you will have negative impact on environment in any
Case and we want to propose uh thanks to our project to research Action Program to uh think out of the box and to evolve from a um a management impact and impact management to Resource Management um in order to preserve valorize and create an example very concretely with our project the main
Idea if if we have a healthy material on sites the main the main goal is to preserve it because we are going to we use uh material mineral and organic material available at the scale of our territory we are going to valorize it and because thanks to these new recipes
We are going to restore function of Sals we are going to create uh new new function of SS on the one hand we exploit resources and we create scarcity and in the other hand because we create resources we have ambition to create abundance okay uh my last M message at
The European level uh thanks to our research action program we have ambition to become uh a living lab and we uh we want to join a partnership at European level and if anyone are interested by our proposal uh don’t hesitate to contact us to exchange with with us it
Will be a pleasure thank thank you for [Applause] listening Jia thank you so much come and come and join us and I have to say when you mentioned about the difficulties of finding healthy soils and the cost your other fellow panelists were nodding so even though an agreement with you even
Though you come from very different areas there are so many common themes that we can discuss so ladies and gentlemen um questions let’s let’s let’s take some questions so if you want to use slido or indeed hands up in the room it would be fantastic we
Can get a microphone over to yourself in a moment so if we can get a microphone over over this side be lovely thank you in the meantime let me ask you about the challenges um Yan would you like to start for us um what what is I mean
Goodness me the picture you painted of how challenging your environment is is very extreme but what’s the biggest challenge when it comes to changing the quality of the soil that should be let me yeah it looks yep microphone number three here fantastic lovely keep it nice and close all right I think for
Us the biggest challenge to improve our soils is that um for a wide area around us uh organic fertilizers are very hard to come by um almost all shepherds that have had sheep walking around the fields um had to stop working because there’s almost no ground cover anymore in the fields so
They don’t have food uh which means they would have to buy it which means it becomes too expensive so that means we don’t have compost I know that uh this problem does not exist in the north of Europe bring it to us please we could use some um and besides that you could
Say you can make uh compost with natural materials of course that is possible but as our climate is that extreme uh stuff just not just doesn’t grow so fast so also there um we don’t have a lot of uh green material to uh to use what what about you Teresa the
Biggest challenge that you find when in improving the quality of soils obviously it’s it’s not going to be looking for uh organic matter like that but uh what would it be um well in the case of forest um as I already said in the presentation the soil is mostly neglected so we are
Focusing on trees um um but that we can increase the resilience of forests by focusing on the soil it’s just uh forgotten um and then the problem is like in our case we are not directly changing the soil we’re doing that indirectly so we have the challenges um
Uh why different interest for example like nature conservation in they’re mostly wanting the nature that we have in the 1950s they want that back but it won’t work work it uh we will be left with uh with all forests or many forests dying due to diseases um extreme climate
Um and then we will not have any more ecosystem Services left and therefore we need um this adapting uh Forest um uh conversion um and then the challenge that we have for for the forest owners who want to change um their forests well the timber industry this is um how many
Forest owners uh generate income by the forest they are um focusing on on on sprous logs and not on the cidus trees so here we have the missing income that’s why I said okay we need a valorization system for the forests for all the other services that to do um
Yeah and when it comes to the level of payments that you’ve decided on is that was done in consultation with with the the the the timber merch the ones who are selling the timber or this is a a figure you’ve come to how how how
Do you put a price on it talk us through the mechanics of that um so in general if we have a sprous forest um the forest owners can sell um the wood when we have uh Theus trees as currently we they I mean there is some some trees that can be used or
But a lot of the the biomass that a Deus uh Forest is reproducing it cannot be used for Timber Industries but it could be used uh for local um heating systems for example for firewood and we calculated this number um not as an an extra income for Forest owners with
Sustainable Forest management but to kind of um replace face the loss of income that they have by not being able to sell this the Sprout logs anymore so it’s uh they are not earning more money than um people with uh sprous forests would earn but they just have um that
They like the missing income is uh is leveled out and presumably when you get to the level four forest was it the very very healthy Forest there needs to be some monetary incentive to keep it like that does there or or not um it’s planned that we have uh every five years
Of monitoring to see if the forest is still um in the way that it’s receiving either a level three or a level level four uh valorization so yes there would still be that that ongoing um Jamia let me turn to you um Urban soils what is the biggest challenge out of all the
Challenges that you have what’s the biggest thorniest problem that you face um we have two main challenges uh the first is time because uh we have time of policies time of um uh return of uh Investments uh to the question of uh how to to build an economic model in urban
Agriculture activity and time for ReStore function of souls it’s not the same time and it’s our main difficulties and it’s why we have decided to to reuse resources available and to propose recipes with with resources available to have Solution on shant time we don’t we don’t know if it’s if it’s a good
Solution we will see we have we are going to mon monitor this solution and the second is the legal framework because this uh this approach is very Innovative and we don’t have legal framework it’s uh we don’t know if if we need authorization uh we um every time when
We exchange with expert um with authorities uh they they are they are very afraid about pollution and um we have uh we have to create new space of uh exchange of negotiation uh with all stakeholders and it’s a lot of work because we have no legal framework a lot
Of work in little time because you need to change very quickly quick show of hands in the audience uh who else has that regulatory pressure or lack of framework or framework that needs to be changed that you can relate to what Jamia is saying issues with regulations changing yeah okay tell
Me talk to me about your regulatory pressures then I think this was actually the first year with uh the new cup subsidies uh that we were the only ones in the wide region of Moria that were actually very happy um because this was the first time that everything that
We’ve been doing for the past 10 years um was actually inside the subsidy um so for the first time we have a bit less uh pressure in that sense um but unfortunately now everyone started Ed um to say that’s not possible so I think they’re actually turning back a lot of
Those very good things Yan you also had your hand up as well sorry don’t Yan Teresa I’m sorry no worries um well in our case um the issue that we are were fighting with when it comes to our valorization system we went to local communities um to ask them for
For funding for those Forest owners who are actually doing something for the society for the area that they that they live but the problem was that the company said they are not going to give any money because the valorization or the the system that we have or the
Certificate that we could give them would only be on a voluntary basis because we do not have a C2 certificate but we focus on the ecosystem services so it would be something voluntarily and they decided not to give any money luckily we had one mayor from a
Municipality who said okay we we went that far and we really want to have that and I’m going to give them money so we’re really proud and happy on that but we need um Society to to focus also on the ecosystem services and not just it’s all CO2 because um otherwise it’s way
Too shortsighted we we really need Society to see the added value and to appreciate it and to have companies municipalities give money for those ecosystem Services I I’m laughing because I can well imagine you going to to companies and saying we want some money and they’re
Saying n no we don’t get anything for it so what am I going to get for it so no well you’ll feel better it is it is not enough let’s let’s grab a question here if we can have a microphone over to this side do we have one here fantastic thank
You and then did I see another hand up over here so I know where we’re going next fantastic we’ll be ready with a microphone there would you like to introduce your yourself first hi I’m anaka I’m a social scientist um associate professor at the University of
Olo and a member of the mission soil board thank you so much for giving us these wonderful examples um I would like to ask a question about an issue that I see as cross cutting for all your cases it’s a rather thorny one so bear with me
Um in all of your examples we see a move from the land use which is based on let’s call them Universal solutions for which we then account for the negative externalities as you discussed specifically in the urban uh soils case and in the forest soils also so we have
One model of land use and then we try to deal with the bad that this form of land use causes in your cases you trying to create regeneration you’re trying to create abundance through a better understanding of your local capacities and of your local resources and this is an approach that
Is place-based which is very uh unusual for the legal Frameworks but also for the research and Innovation Frameworks because our research in Academia is built more towards generalizing and universalizing than it is about building capacity in places in very specific circumstances so I would really love to hear more about your experience of
Engaging with the research and Innovation world and your experience of producing the forms of evidence that help you thank you thank you very much thank you for your question who’d like to Yanik would you like to start um yes it’s very place-based uh but that doesn’t mean that
The overall Concepts uh are are that different because we can talk about uh Ground Covers which are maybe something different in the north and maybe a lot easier with irrigation and maybe um if you have very um mineral soils it’s it’s a lot harder or but in the end um what
We try to teach the farmer is how do I look at my land what is my context and what are the potential possibilities that I can you know integrate in my specific context how can I think holistically how can I take into account not only yes I’m going to add a ground
Cover but actually what type and does this also help biodiversity and does this also in increase uh the root depth uh of these plants and I think that is quite Universal the way of that you can think about your farm and also the way that you can experiment because I think
Experimentation is is is key uh uh you know because indeed something that works very well in one of our Farms might not work the same in the other Farm but that doesn’t mean that the way we go about it is that different you know we experiment we do little things everywhere and we
See which things work best we plant Hedges with different species and we see which ones uh are still there after 3 years and then we you know uh grow that um and that seems to work quite well that comes down to your example of the pistachio trees as well yes where you
Had to change and alter and realize that something wasn’t wasn’t working Jia do you want to um in my opinion um I think um in my career I the demonstr the demonstrator experimentation is um is uh is a solution to to to scale up uh proposal and uh very concretely with our
Research program um at the end the result will be uh not a local solution but a methodology uh it’s real the the the command that we have done for for all stakeholders involved in the research program to how to identify in local site resource available how to mix how to
Work with all stakeholders it’s not just a local solution it’s a methodology and the main ambition is to scale up this uh this approach thank you Teresa would you do you want to come in on that um I think I could only repeat what Yan already said because for the forest it’s
Pretty much the same and uh one thing that we are doing I mean we are a live project so the idea is really to have um to give something to the to the Yu and to have the networking with uh with research um with a policy and so on to
Really make this uh in our case sustainable for Forest management ongoing and have a replication and a um yeah and our Pro the the things that we are producing they really made for uh transferability thank you if I could just ask the technical desk if I could
Just have the slido screen uh live that would be fantastic thank you um by the way um katra’s outdone herself I think I love the frog in the middle AB absolutely absolutely wonderful um we have a gentleman there with a microphone we’ll we’ll take that question and then I’ll take some slider
Questions as well it uh I yep I believe that one is just keep it nice and close there working yeah so uh ol R Schmutz I’m a professor in C University for organic horiculture put the question also in slider so I make it short I’m I’m interested uh in Teresa’s work and um
I’m also working on Agro forestry so for that reason I would want to ask you about forestry and how that can develop further maybe to towards more Agro forestry uh and the specific question is how about grazing chickens or pigs or other livestocks in those forests you
You talked about and do you feel or have a feeling how that would improve the soil quality um if if one would do that on a much larger scale thank you where does that fit in with your Healthy forests um well thank you for this good
Question I will take that home to the whole project team actually um we are currently um going for another EU funded project where actually the county of lansburg is focusing on aggro forestry so that’s already on the schedule uh however within this live future Forest project we have not had the capacities
To to go for all the the details all the research all the implementation that would have been needed um but I personally think that um combining the different areas would have um an added value for for all areas yes thank you thank you for your question um
It’s a question to you Yanik but I’m going to put it to to all of you um and that’s what do you need from the soil Mission um and also from soil science to improve your work to improve what you’re doing with agriculture with Forestry and
With urban areas as well so what do you need what would help what would be good do you have a moment is it is it is it going to be continue There we go no no no um I think what is very important for us
Is um soil analysis as we have a very big farm um it’s very expensive it’s around1 per soil sample um and we need many and I think it’s one of the best ways to actually know if what we’re doing Works um we have done it in our Cals we’ve seen a 1%
Increase in organic matter compared to our conventional neighbor conventional neighbor we’ve seen that we actually do have uh microbiology in our soil uh bacteria and fungi while our neighbor had non detectable so I think that is very important knowledge and that is something that if we know it we can
Share it and people would be convinced that that is a good thing so that’s one and then another thing that I would really like is that for our Valley Project which is 30,000 hectares we would like a very good map of our 30,000 hectors a map what hang hang on hang on
But you with all the information possible about soils About Management about water underneath soils everything uh um yeah okay I I will keep it at these two things so are you are you is that um I’m sorry but there there’s hysterics over there somewhere from someone um are
You looking at a technical it solution so that you can quite literally you want a Google for your farm basically I will want Google Earth gone mad okay on 30,000 hectares like all the layers possible everything everything so it’s it’s amalgamating all the data that’s there um with I’m guessing click searchable
Different okay yeah I think it would majorly help to design this project okay so you want the Elon Musk of the agriculture word yes okay if anyone knows him or her then uh we need to have a chat um what do you need from Mission soil Teresa um promot
Our reward system or create another rewarding system to focus more on ecosystem services to go one step further and not just stay with the CO2 and leave the S forests like this but to promote the adaptation of um of forest and also to to promote the importance of
Healthy Living soil in forests because for agriculture everyone knows that we have to focus on soils um and I think most of you do know that here for forests as well but out there it’s not like that unfortunately and we have to really change that okay I’m going to
Come back to that point in a minute because I think that’s a point that’s applicable to so many people but Jia what what do you need from Mission soil um because we are beginning we are very at the start of our research program and uh we have ambition to to um to develop
A methodology uh in order to scale up our Solutions we have we don’t want to work uh in Silo and we are looking for partner in order to exchange at the very first step of our our project to to collect all information a available and uh and useful for
Us any more questions in the room fantastic if I can get a microphone lovely thank you very much what did I see another one over yep and we have another one there lovely thank you thank you uh my name is Carlos G I’m also Portuguese but I’m here presenting the
Project solo and we are a research um based project uh my question is for you yanek because the right now there’s a proposal uh for the European soil law monitoring uh and they establish certification for soil so they they want to have soil Health certificates and currently there’s a lot of fight
Regarding what it means for farmers and for the price of Farmland if you now put a certificate saying this is a good soil and the the question I have for you is what is your opinion on that and is this something that you think it will affect
Your uh daily life or not so to be clear you’re you’re saying therefore the soil is more of a premium if it is certified for example yeah it can can be by the premium or not so if you don’t have this certification it’s not worth as much AB absolutely
Interesting um it might actually help to improve soils on a very large scale that is totally possible also very possible that of course it will benefit the few that is also a very real uh yeah possibility on the other hand uh if we would buy land we would always look at
Soil health and we would always check what is the soil quality and we would know what does the yield do in that field um so I think for a farmer for a farmer they they already kind of know um because they look you know at what they buy
Um but yeah it it might make that a lot more people are going to look at yeah improving their soil Health which is not necessarily A Bad Thing do you think it might create more of a divide though with farmers who either have the knowledge base or the
The capex the money that they need to start any processes therefore getting more wealthier so more more valuable soils and those that can’t actually they keep losing out I think that um PE Farmers with a lot of money are not necessarily taking good care of their soils I think we’ll just leave that
Point there shall we um I do either of you want want to come in on that because it’s it’s it’s a sort of a similar if you can put a value on a forest does it you know I mean I think you know we know Teresa what your
View is because this is a scheme you’re advocating so I take it you would think it does work well we have Forest owners farmers and so on who change something go towards an organic or sustainable way for an intrinsic motivation but then we have others who actually need an ex an
Extrinsic motivation and I think that’s the people that we are addressing if we support them by funding okay J I’m aware your colleague came to speak to you so if there something you want to bring in on that we we exchange about about certificate of healthy SCE and uh in
Urban plan I it’s a very new um new approach um I don’t know no fair enough fair enough it’s a wait and see then maybe uh there was a gentleman with his hand up now has a microphone thank you very much um we also have another
Question at the back and we’ll move the microphone afterwards thank you um yeah my name is Jor I’m a researcher at orus University and I’m part of prep soil um my question is for uh Yanik and Teresa and that is um H how would you propose
Or what are your ideas about getting uh Foresters and farmers who have systems that work that keep food on the table and roof on their heads where they are on the long term not sustainable in the long term not good for soil health and the long term not good for uh for all
The ecosystem services that you could be thinking about how will you get them to take that leap of risk to experiment to find their own local solutions to to do things that are actually better in the long term to step away from these uh old paradigms of of uh of universal
Solutions uh where the infrastructure already exists where the uh uh commercial uh uh Pathways already exist um and take the time and the risk to experiment to find their own local solutions that are best for their local soils sure and I and I wonder I’m also
Going to put in there is it a generational thing as as well um so just very briefly if I can how do you get Farmers land managers to go right I’m changing um I think there’s a few ways of doing that I think one way is showing that it works
Financially um being an example and the farmers around you at some point will come to you to see how you do it um I would say that’s one uh a second one I’ve seen through interviews with 40 Farmers locally is that one of the key moments for them to change
Was uh understanding the ecosystem starting to understand how everything is connected and then knowing that you are part of it um which made them not be able to unsee that and therefore they would change um then still there is again the money issue uh because some things just
Do cost money to implement or experiments don’t entirely work out and therefore there’s an is there’s associations that you can become part of uh we are for example a part of an association in the south of Spain uh for regenerative Farmers which now has 400
Farmers part of it um so I think that that those do work and they those can help also with information and knowledge sharing um and I do think it helps a lot if there is in the cup subsidies uh some kind of basic uh practices that you just have to
Do um like in our case now vegetation strips they are not mandatory yet but you do get some extra money uh so you do now all of a sudden see them everywhere it’s not perfect but if then people see that uh because of that they don’t have a lower yield and actually
Nothing is really changing and it doesn’t cost them more then maybe even at some point when those subsidies end they would keep doing it because it doesn’t have a negative effect on their income so it’s pushing first with the the finances and then yeah it continue yeah absolutely then they see what
Happens just very very briefly Teresa pretty much the same as as Yan already said and really making a a combination of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation because if people know why they are doing something and what positive effect it has then they say okay I’m ready to risk that if they have
An easy guidance on how to do it so that the risk is reduced and then have H A funding that helps them to kind of overcome the time where maybe you have less income I think that will help also to reduce the risk and then make people become yeah more sustainable in their
Way of thinking and acting throw the money at it and then and then people come along and realize actually it it works anyway um we are out of time but I wonder whether you just like to have a quick look at what carot has done I we’ve got an ant the Frog the
Worms goodness me absolutely superb um and uh I think you might quite like your your Le Metropol there up in the top right hand corner Jia ladies and Gentlemen please thank our expert panelists here thank you very [Applause] much thank you and are you are you all happy to take questions of people
Approach you over lunch fantastic great thank you um Now ladies and gentlemen before you move for lunch just before you move let me just tell you about the breakouts that we have coming up afterwards uh you have the QR code on the back of your badges yes fantastic uh
So that will help you find your rooms for the breakouts if not maybe you’d like to take a picture of the screen now so that you can see where you’re going the three different breakout sessions um so that’s where you will go after the lunch break then we will all come back
Here together to discuss what you have talked about in the breakouts so please use the QR code when you get outside to sign the mission Manifesto take a look at the pictures and say oh oh you’d all like to go back would you to the oh oh that’s a different
Oh oh apparently they’re different on the thing okay we will find out for you whether you follow the slide or whether you follow what’s on your QR code it’s the slide is it that one okay fantastic so that’s that’s what we need there you go they are the three breakouts for you
Ladies and gentlemen go and enjoy your lunch break we will make sure you know where to go during the breakouts uh and we will see you all back in the room at half past 4 thank you very much thank you
Plenary session recording from the European Mission Soil Week 2023, which took place from November 21-23 locally hosted by INIA-CSIC at the central facilities of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) in Madrid, Spain, under the Spanish Presidency of the EU Council.
Organised by the European Commission, Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development (DG AGRI) in the context of the Mission Soil together with the EU funded project PREPSOIL and the Joint Research Centre – EU Soil Observatory (EUSO).
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