Enhancing Soil health through Values-based business models

Project Information

SoilValues

Grant agreement ID: 101091308

DOI

10.3030/101091308

EC signature date 15 November 2022

Start date 1 January 2023

End date 31 December 2026

Funded under

Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment

Total cost

€ 4 999 922,50

EU contribution

€ 4 999 922,50

4 999 922,50

Coordinated by

KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN
Belgium

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Deliverables

Best practices of Communication and Dissemination Actions

Communication activities including a visual identity, website and social media,journalistic content, audio-visual content, promotion materials and monitoring of the communication and dissemination actions

Practice abstracts – first bench

This deliverable contains 10 practice abstracts

CoP Strategic Plan

Detailed plan of activities and events for the CoPs, including CoP mission, goals, structure, governance model and dissemination strategy

Six implementation plans for testing grounds with completed business model canvas

Report with baseline business models for each testing ground set according to the criteria in the basic evaluation framework.

Prototype framework for monitoring & evaluation

Report with prototype evaluation framework of soil health business models, including impacts on soil health and ecosystem services, crop yields/margins and crop growth risks over time and, other externalities like trade-offs to water quality and biodiversity, and consumer wishes and preferences.

Policy briefs – bench 1

Policy briefs with recommendations at the EU and national levels detailing public and private incentives (first set containing 2 policy briefs)

Playbook to guide the set-up of testing grounds and the co-design of business model(s)

Playbook to guide the set-up of testing grounds and the co-design of business models. A detailed design and implementation plan with clear guidelines for all actors in the testing grounds.

Exploitation roadmap and IPR strategy

Analysis of exploitation opportunities, risks and strategies

Roadmap to designing and implementing effective incentives to soil health

Report with enabling policy conditions and key success factors for implementing soil health fostering incentives

Publications

Altering Ecosystem Services While Considering Soil Health and Farm Income: Conceptual Framework in Crop Farming Systems

Author(s): Y. C. Wang‐Touri, M. C. Kik, M. P. M. Meuwissen, A. B. Smit, H. W. Saatkamp
Published in: European Journal of Soil Science, Issue 76, 2025, ISSN 1351-0754
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/EJSS.70177

Tracing inter-city nitrogen pollution

Author(s): Erik Mathijs; Erika De Keyser; Kato Van Ruymbeke
Published in: Nature Food, 2024, ISSN 2662-1355
Publisher: Nature
DOI: 10.1038/S43016-024-00981-4

Beyond compensation: understanding land manager resistance to nature restoration schemes in Denmark

Author(s): Kasper Krabbe, Martin Hvarregaard Thorsøe, Tiffanie F. Stone, Michael Friis Pedersen, Jakob Vesterlund Olsen
Published in: Agriculture and Human Values, Issue 43, 2026, ISSN 1572-8366
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1007/S10460-026-10884-8

Healthy soils as a booster to EU competitiveness

Author(s): Panos Panagos, Alberto Orgiazzi, Emanuele Lugato, Guillaume Vandenesch, Laurent Thannberger, Jason C. Neff, Arjan Reijneveld, Erik Mathijs, Pascal Chapot, Sara Guerrini, Darina Štyriaková, Julian Kremers, Paul Martin, Ramon Van Der Tol, Victor Burgeon, Elena Kalimeri, Elise Van Eynde
Published in: Land Use Policy, Issue 158, 2026, ISSN 0264-8377
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.LANDUSEPOL.2025.107755

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