Objective
LANDMARK is a pan-European multi-actor consortium of leading academic and applied research institutes, chambers of agriculture and policy makers that will develop a coherent framework for soil management aimed at sustainable food production across Europe.
The LANDMARK proposal builds on the concept that soils are a finite resource that provides a range of ecosystem services known as “soil functions”. Functions relating to agriculture include: primary productivity, water regulation & purification, carbon-sequestration & regulation, habitat for biodiversity and nutrient provision & cycling. Trade-offs between these functions may occur: for example, management aimed at maximising primary production may inadvertently affect the ‘water purification’ or ‘habitat’ functions. This has led to conflicting management recommendations and policy initiatives. There is now an urgent need to develop a coherent scientific and practical framework for the sustainable management of soils.
LANDMARK will uniquely respond to the breadth of this challenge by delivering (through multi-actor development):
1. LOCAL SCALE: A toolkit for farmers with cost-effective, practical measures for sustainable (and context specific) soil management.
2. REGIONAL SCALE - A blueprint for a soil monitoring scheme, using harmonised indicators: this will facilitate the assessment of soil functions for different soil types and land-uses for all major EU climatic zones.
3. EU SCALE – An assessment of EU policy instruments for incentivising sustainable land management.
There have been many individual research initiatives that either address the management & assessment of individual soil functions, or address multiple soil functions, but only at local scales. LANDMARK will build on these existing R&D initiatives: the consortium partners bring together a wide range of significant national and EU datasets, with the ambition of developing an interdisciplinary scientific framework for sustainable soil management.
Fields of science
- agricultural sciencesagriculture, forestry, and fisheriesagriculturesustainable agriculture
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic zones
- engineering and technologychemical engineeringseparation technologiesdesalinationreverse osmosis
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencessoil sciencesedaphology
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesecologyecosystems
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Funding Scheme
RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinator
6708 PB Wageningen
Netherlands
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Participants (29)
1165 Kobenhavn
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1049 Bruxelles / Brussel
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D02 Dublin
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6708 PB Wageningen
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3721 MA Bilthoven
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2100 Godollo
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BT52 1SA Coleraine
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2000 Antwerpen
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75008 Paris
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45000 ORLEANS
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60026 Beauvais Cedex
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87060 Limoges
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31320 Auzeville Tolosane
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21110 Breteniere
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26121 Oldenburg
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R93 Carlow
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1220 Wien
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1131 Wien
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1090 Wien
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75007 Paris
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210008 NANJING
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05508 900 Sao Paulo Sp
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8092 Zuerich
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400372 Cluj Napoca
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750 07 Uppsala
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1000 Ljubljana
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1000 Ljubljana
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43121 PARMA
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41004 Sevilla
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