CARBOCERT Operational Group: Quantification and Certification of Organic Carbon in Mediterranean Agricultural Soils
- Type Operational group
- Status Filled
- Execution 2018 -2020
- Assigned Budget 517.432,68 €
- Scope Supraautonómico
- Autonomous community Andalucía; Castilla y León; Castilla - La Mancha; Cataluña; Comunitat Valenciana; Madrid, Comunidad de; País Vasco
- Main source of financing PEPAC 2014-2020
- Project website https://eu-cap-network.ec.europa.eu/projects/carbocert-operational-group-quanti…
Description
Establish methodologies that allow for accounting for the increase in carbon in agricultural soils and in fixed and permanent structures resulting from the implementation of sustainable agricultural practices.
Objectives
- For each of the six crops studied, identify the different cultivation systems, agricultural practices, and/or cultural treatments that present the greatest potential for carbon absorption and storage.
- Determine the climatic, soil, and agronomic factors that most decisively influence carbon absorption and storage by agricultural soils.
- Define objective, cost-effective, and easily replicable methods for quantifying carbon uptake and storage.
- Define a methodology that enables certification of carbon sequestration and agricultural practice guidelines for farmers that incorporate information on different agricultural management strategies that ensure carbon absorption.
- Disclosure, exploitation and transfer of results.
Results
- Creation of a carbon sequestration database for each of the practices, systems, and/or techniques found in the literature review of the six crops.
- Report with the parameters that most decisively influence carbon absorption and storage.
- Selection of specific methodologies for quantifying carbon absorption and storage.
- Certification methodology defined and implemented, and good agricultural practice guides for farmers were drafted.
- Presentation of the project and its results and creation of a documentary and material base.
Contact information
coopera@une.org
Coordinators
- Asociación Española de Normalizacion
- UNE
- Aenor Internacional
- S.A.U
- Asociación Agraria de Jovenes Agricultores
Collaborators
- Asociación Española Agricultura de Conservacion Suelos Vivos (AEACSV)
Beneficiaries
- Asociación Española de Normalizacion
- UNE
- Aenor Internacional
- S.A.U
- Asociación Agraria de Jovenes Agricultores
Outsourced
- Instituto de Investigación y Tecnología Alimentaria
- IRTA.
- Instituto Andaluz de Investigación y Formación Agraria
- Pesquera
- Alimentaria y de la Producción Ecologica (IFAPA)
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