Improved land suitability for soil health and sustainable biomass production
Funds research that models how soil properties and land suitability shape biomass production and soil health across European farmland, forests and peatlands.
This call supports the Soil Deal for Europe Mission's goals of reducing soil pollution and enhancing restoration and cutting the EU's global footprint on soils, and it also feeds into the EU Bioeconomy Strategy and the Nature Restoration Law. Funded work is expected to improve soil health and land-suitability choices for biomass production across farmland and forests, and -- for paludiculture or n…
The European Commission wants research that models how soil properties, land suitability and water dynamics shape biomass production across farmland, forests and peatlands. Proposals should build decision tools for land managers, drawing on existing soil databases such as the EUSO repository and EJP SOIL's field experiments, and concentrate on Europe's ten most important crop and biomass plant types. Work must also weigh the social, economic and environmental sides of production and keep outputs interoperable with the EU Soil Observatory.
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