Call for Farmers to contribute to the LILAS4SOILS Project

EIT Food South is the Coordinator of the Horizon Europe-funded project “LILAS4SOILS. Fostering Carbon Farming Practices through Living Labs in the Mediterranean & Southern EU for the healthy future of European soils”. LILAS4SOILS will put in place 5 Living Labs (LLs) in 6 countries – Spain, Portugal, France, Italy, Greece and Israel - to promote the collaboration among farmers, agri-food businesses, researchers and local authorities to co-create and implement Carbon Farming Practices (CFPs) in 85-100 demo-sites. With this Open Call, LILAS4SOILS aims to select 50 farmers to co-create and implement CFPs; measure the impact on Soil Organic Carbon; design sustainable business models and participate to knowledge sharing activities. Selected farmers will be compensated for their efforts in the project with 5,000 euros/year over a period of 3 years. Farmers are requested to dedicate between 1 to 5 hectares to the application of Carbon Farming Practices over a period of 4 years, and to share historical and monitoring data to study the variability of carbon in soil. Farm or field selected must be located in the regions of the LILAS4SOILS Living Labs. For more details, refer to the Open Call document.