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Soil is very a complex ecosystem: it hosts several organisms and influences several services and mechanisms, including water quality, food production, and climate regulation. At the same time, soil is a non-renewable resource for humankind and economics (European […]
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The use of technology in all facets of farming is becoming a more popular area for investment. According to Jed Lynch, Head of Americas, Sustainable & Impact Investment Banking at Barclays, “agriculture has traditionally been considered as a […]
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Cristiana Sartori is an organic farmer from Northern Italy who adopts sustainable agricultural practices tocope with the main challenges she encounters in her work: drought caused by climate change, theavailability of raw materials and economic sustainability. Istituto Oikos […]
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Given the severity and urgency of the climate crisis, digital innovation applied to emission control and carbon storage processes is enabling new applications for agriculture. Within the Farmbox project, we are building a satellite simulator that aims to […]
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What is CSA Simulator? The Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) simulator presents alternative scenarios for managing a farmland by describing current management practices and alternative future management scenarios. The tool addresses mainly future farmers, students, expert farmers, farmers’ associations […]
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Can you present yourself and Istituto Oikos?I am Martina Spada and I am the Program coordinator for European projects in Istituto Oikos.Our organization is a non-profit established in 1996 operating in Europe, Africa and Asia to safeguard biodiversity […]
At the end of January and beginning of February, we had the Second Transnational Meeting ofthe FarmBox Project in Milan, hosted by Istituto OIKOS. However, this meeting had something special. Due to the difficulties that arose due to […]
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Can you present yourself and The Chamber of Agriculture of the Republic of Lithuania? My name is Edvardas Gedgaudas. I am director of Lithuanian Cattle Breeders Association. Our association is member of The Chamber of Agriculture of the […]
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Natural areas represent half of the territory of the European Union and are essential for the conservation of biodiversity, on which our survival depends. Yet, in recent decades, intensive agriculture and the progressive abandonment of rural areas have […]
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This month we are going to discover more about the FarmBox project and its genesis by meeting TXORIERRI, our Spanish partner. Can you present yourself and TXORIERRI? Politeknika Ikastegia Txorierri is a co-operative society that was founded in […]