Towards climate-smart sustainable management of agricultural soils

Agro-Ecological strategies for promoting Climate change Mitigation and Adaptation by enhancing soil ecosystem services and sustainable crop production - ARTEMIS

EJP Soil Topic: Contribution of soils to climate change mitigation and adaptation, sustainable agricultural production and environment in agroecological systems

Soils provide a multitude of ecosystem services that can contribute both, to the mitigation as well as adaptation to climatic change. Land management practices have a large effect on the ability of soils to provide these services. The project will provide a better understanding on how specific agro-ecological practices affect soil ecosystem service indicators and how these indicators can be assessed in the field. This will be achieved by the evaluation of regionally representative field experiments using numerical modelling, a literature survey as well as in direct exchange with practitioners. [https://ejpsoil.eu/soil-research/eom4soil/into-dialogue/artemis]

Keywords: agro-ecology, climate change mitigation and adaptation, soil ecosystem service indicator, soil functioning, long-term field experiment, statistical analysis, climate scenario modelling, meta-analysis, lighthouse farms, soil-management practices, conservation agriculture, organic farming, soil organic carbon sequestration, soil water storage,

Duration of the project: 24 months (11/2022 - 10/2024)

Project coordinator: Klaus Jarosch - Agroscope (Swiss Centre of Excellence for Agricultural research)

Co-coordinator: Claudia Di Bene - CREA (Council for Agricultural Research and Economics, Italy)