European agriculture is vulnerable to weather extremes, but it also holds the key. By choosing well how farmers manage their land, they can guard against drought and peak rains. More than a thousand observations across Europe show that it is especially important to keep the soil covered with living plants, even in winter.
How can a farmer arm himself against climate change? To answer that question, Sarah Garré, researcher at ILVO, ploughed through more than 100 years of agricultural research. You can read the harvest of its research in this blog.
How can we efficiently monitor, report and verify (MRV) changes in soil carbon stocks and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from soil? These questions are getting answers in the large-scale European rese...
Two recently launched ILVO projects aim to get additional measures on the official PAS list, which will give livestock farmers new options to meet the sector-level target.
