EU global footprint on soils
Funds a framework to measure how the EU's demand for food, feed, fibre and biomass imports degrades soil health outside Europe, especially in Latin America and Africa.
This topic is one of eleven filed under the Soil Deal for Europe Mission call, HORIZON-MISS-2025-05, ranging from a EUR 3,000,000 Coordination and Support Action up to a EUR 12,000,000 Research and Innovation Action; most of the other topics, like this one, carry a EUR 6,000,000 budget for a single grant. The work itself is a Research and Innovation Action with no separate outline stage. Proposals…
The funder wants a tool that tracks the global 'soil footprint' of EU consumption of bio-based products, tracing imports back to where they were produced and quantifying the resulting soil degradation. It wants policy recommendations to cut that footprint, developed with international partners such as FAO, UNEP and Latin American or African organisations.
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