Besides the ocean, soils are the largest carbon storehouse. With proper management, agricultural soils can even store significantly more carbon than they currently do. Capturing CO2 in the form of soi...
Stimulating carbon sequestration
...ready knows that trees provide a lot of services to society such as: Increased biodiversityMore carbon storage in the soilMitigating the effects of climate changeAir purificationLandscape and r...
...inning of the next season they can be plowed under, where they also have a beneficial effect on the carbon content of the soil. Nitrous oxide The Global Warming Potential (GWP) of nitro...
Greenhouse gases: a question of balance Carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O) are natural greenhouse gases. They play an important role in the quality of life on our planet ...
...re toxins, veterinary drug residues, allergens, antinutritional factors, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), metals, micro/nanoplastics, ...Chemical molecules in food products require ...
...Ecologically, intact boars are also the best choice, as their nitrogen and phosphorus emissions and carbon footprint are lower than those of barrows. Moreover, it is no longer necessary to castrate...
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Carbon farming can contribute to climate change mitigation while increasing the resilience of soils.
General introductionThe project "Climate-neutral farms thanks to carbon storage in forest agriculture" demonstrated that agroforestry can make a valuable contribution to climate goals through carb...
Road4Schemes, a project within the broad EJP Soil Program, explored the European roll-out of carbon farming, specifically how to organize it in a successful and context-flexible way.
General introductionHow can we build trust and momentum for carbon farming practices across the European Union? The CREDIBLE project, an EU Soil Mission project, aims to establish a Network of Net...
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The aim of CarboSeq is to estimate the feasible soil organic carbon (SOC) sequestration potential of different management options considering technical and economic constraints in in Europe.
Carbon Storage
...provides numerous ecosystem services: Production of food, feed and raw materialsStoring carbon (climate mitigation)Infiltration of water during heavy rainfall (climate adaptation)
...tings from nature reserves and roadsides generally contain little phosphorus in relation to organic carbon and are therefore interesting for increasing the carbon content of a soil with a limited r...
Increase soil organic carbon content
...s and to carry out structural work such as dam construction. Plots with optimal pH and high carbon content can drop one erosion susceptibility class. This is because optimal pH and sufficie...
How can we properly and efficiently monitor, report and verify changes in carbon stocks in European soils (and in woody biomass), as well as greenhouse gas emissions from soils?
...ed microbial activation of biochar for circular horticulture - Bart Vandecasteele (ILVO) (Green Carbon Webinar Series) Registration: https://www.greencarbonwebinar.org/registration
Carbon agriculture aims to sequester carbon in soil and woody biomass as a win-win for farmer, climate and society. Carbon agriculture allows the farmer to both work on soil health and receive compens...
Flemish government holds up action platform dedicated to carbon removal and carbon farming and seeks two coordinators.
...Fisheries and Food Research), has been able to measure for the first time in 50 years the amount of carbon in the soil across all land uses. This surprisingly shows that there is no difference in t...
...including: negative emission technologies for ocean-based climate mitigation; open ocean biological carbon pumps; restoration and conservation of natural ecosystems; marine bioenergy with carbon ca...
EMBRC-BE and ILVO organize a Symposium on Marine Carbon Sequestration to assess the opportunities of oceans, seas and estuaries in reducing the causes and consequences of climate change, globally and ...
...n, the European Union wants to intervene on emissions induced by human activities and/or storage in carbon stocks. In doing so, it puts forward the "no-debit rule" for the period 2021-2030. Specifi...
The EU projects CARBON CONNECTS and CANAPE share the commitment to sustainably re-wetting and restoring peatlands. This 3-day conference brings together European experts, managers, policy makers a...
... in practice ILVO and Department of Agriculture & Fisheries stepped together into the LIFE CarbonCounts research project, funded by the Climate Fund and by EU, to chart a course for scalin...
...n, the European Union wants to intervene on emissions induced by human activities and/or storage in carbon stocks. In doing so, it puts forward the "no-debit rule" for the period 2021-2030. Specifi...
Throughout Europe, numerous carbon farming schemes have been developed in the past decade, ranging from simple to more elaborated. Recently, schemes are increasingly being developed for the agricultur...
Supporting high-level conversations to shape up robust carbon farming markets and policies. It represents a space for sharing knowledge and experiences, upscaling solutions and enabling the multiplica...
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Carbon farming: what and why? The agricultural sector is already making considerable efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and achieve the Flemish climate objectives. Carbon storage in agricu...
This roadmap is an end product of the LIFE CarbonCounts project, in which ILVO together with the Department of Agriculture & Fisheries has been setting the tone for scaling up effective and viable...
A roadmap for upscaling carbon farming in Flanders
...oject Road4Schemes which aims to integrate research into the design and implementation of policy on carbon farming. The objectives of Road4Schemes were:(1) to assess the strengths and weaknesse...
... balance between removing crop residues and their role in soil fertility and the build-up of stable carbon, a measure against global warming.“ Prof. Steven Key (promoter UGent): "It is becoming...
... the soil via animal manure, soil organisms break it down and some is sequestered as stable organic carbon in agricultural soils. Storing one ton of stable carbon in the soil removes 3.7 tons of CO...