80 million improvement in soil management in Europe

The European Joint Programme on Agricultural Soil Management (EYP SOIL) was officially launched on 1 February. With the results of EYP SOIL, soil management in agriculture across Europe can be improved and made more sustainable. This contributes to the realisation of important societal challenges, such as adaptation to climate change and food security.

Roadmap

EYP SOIL will draw up a 'roadmap', a knowledge agenda for climate-smart and sustainable agricultural soil management. The roadmap has four components:

1. Knowledge development through collaborative projects in Europe;
2. Knowledge sharing and transfer by training young researchers, increasing general public awareness and promoting social understanding and appreciation of agricultural soil management and its contribution to society;
3. Knowledge harmonisation of storage, organisation and reporting of soil data;
4. Knowledge transfer to farmers through, among other things, joint development of advisory systems.