Project description
Land use and agroecological management practices’ impact on subsoil
The EU soil strategy states that up to 70 % of EU soils are unhealthy and severely degraded, impacting both topsoil and subsoil health as well as ecosystems. Despite its importance, knowledge about subsoil is limited. The EU-funded SUS-SOIL project will develop 15 subsoil living labs to analyse land use and agroecological management practices (ASMs) on subsoil and their impacts on rural and urban ecosystems. The project aims to increase awareness of subsoil threats and risks, support the EU agroecological transformation, promote water security and mitigate climate change. It will also create a subsoil/soil monitoring database (S DB) that can work with the LUCAS and ESDAC databases, analyse long-term ASM land use and develop a Subsoil Decision Support Tool (S-DST).
Objective
According to the EU Soil Strategy, around 60 to 70% of the soils in the European Union are not healthy and suffering from severe degradation processes. The degradation processes primarily affecting the topsoils are also depleting the subsoil health reducing the ecosystem services delivery. However, subsoil knowledge is scarce in spite of the relevance it has. SUS-SOIL is a 4-year project adopting multidisciplinary approach that will develop a set of 15 Subsoil-Living Labs (LLs) to inventory, analyse and benchmark different agroecology subsoil management (ASM) and land uses and their impacts on the subsoil spatial variations and dynamics to best combine ASM practices in rural and urban areas within a global regional context. SUS-SOIL results will be the start point to increase the awareness of land managers and public authorities to understand the subsoil threats and risks, support EU agroecological transformation tackling subsoils and increasing ecosystem services delivery, promote water security and climate change mitigation of rural and urban ecosystems. The main outcomes include: (1) develop a subsoil/soil monitoring database (S-DB) able to be interoperable with the LUCAS and ESDAC databases, (ii) the analysis long-term ASM land use and management of 3 relevant types of soil per LL and the relationship with rural and urban ecosystem services delivery including modelling, (iii) develop a set of farm idiotypes per LL mixing the ASM best practices as an alternative to conventional systems to enhance the ecosystem services provision at regional level for citizens through (iv) a Subsoil Decision Support Tool (S-DST) considering soil degradation and relevant business models and propose a (v) subsoil policy strategy framework to foster ASM best practices.
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15782 Santiago De Compostela
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Participants (21)
30001 Murcia
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15374 Muencheberg
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3004-531 Coimbra
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56126 Pisa
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1068 Tunis
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118 55 ATHINA
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71000 Sarajevo
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15001 La Coruna
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28040 Madrid
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41071 Sevilla
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960 01 Zvolen
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27160 Breteuil
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
30124 VENEZIA
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
00790 Helsinki
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06135 Perugia
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15705 Santiago De Compostela
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70010 Valenzano
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01330 Adana
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06560 VALBONNE
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8911 MA Leeuwarden
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11361 Cairo
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Partners (2)
Partner organisations contribute to the implementation of the action, but do not sign the Grant Agreement.
27664 Cervantes
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Partner organisations contribute to the implementation of the action, but do not sign the Grant Agreement.
15705 Santiago De Compostela
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