Carbon farming is a series of farming practices, approaches, and land management techniques that optimise carbon capture, removing CO2 from the atmosphere and storing it in plants and soil.
While carbon farming is a powerful tool to help the European Union reach the objective of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, the lack of shared regulations and the different levels of knowledge and acceptance across the EU countries can prevent or slow down the transition from current agricultural practices to carbon farming.
In a constant- evolving framework, it is crucial to get in touch and analyse what are the fears, hopes, opportunities, and obstacles of those directly involved in carbon farming implementation and the creation of a shared regulatory framework across the EU.
For this reason, MRV4SOC, a 3-year EU project which aims to provide solid and cost-effective monitoring for carbon farming, organised a series of workshops and discussion tables on carbon farming in different demo sites: Spain, Belgium, the Czech Republic, and Italy.
The aim was to reach out to the different players of the carbon farming ecosystem: farmers and breeders, researchers, public administrations, and technical experts. The workshops were associated with multiplier events in which all potential interested actors where invited to build a community of practice to support each other through the transition to a more sustainable agriculture and land management model.
The workshop results will be processed and integrated into MRv4SOC’s monitoring, reporting, and verification system integrating the scientific, social, and economic aspects of carbon farming.