Imagine trying to check the health of a giant garden using different rulers that don't match. This effort creates one single, reliable ruler for soil health across Europe. It helps people figure out if their land is healthy using a mix of satellite images, ground samples, and simple apps. This makes it easy to prove that farming or forestry practices are actually working.
Companies lack a standardized, affordable way to prove soil health improvements, making it difficult to access green incentives or comply with upcoming EU soil directives.
An integrated soil health tool and dashboard for indicator selection, health indexation, and management recommendations.
If you are a certification provider dealing with inconsistent soil quality data — this project developed an integrated soil health tool that provides a cost-effective way to measure and index soil health. This allows for the creation of reliable incentivization schemes for value-chain businesses.
If you are a land manager dealing with the need to prove sustainable forest growth — this project developed a monitoring system applicable to forestry land-use systems. It provides a way to recommend management practices based on actual soil health data.
If you are a developer dealing with urban soil degradation — this project developed a dashboard for selecting appropriate indicators for urban land-use systems. This helps in assessing the effects of policy innovations on city soil health.
Based on available project data, the specific price is not listed, but the project's goal is to create a cost-effective framework for measuring soil health.
Yes, the system is designed to work across local, landscape, regional, and European scales, utilizing 24 European landscape case studies for validation.
Based on available project data, the project uses open science approaches, though specific licensing terms for the integrated soil health tool are not detailed.
Yes, it specifically tests indicators for the proposed Soil Monitoring and Resilience Directive and aligns with the European Green Deal and Farm to Fork strategies.
The project period runs from 2023-01-01 to 2027-12-31, suggesting the final validated tools will be ready toward the end of 2027.
The consortium is heavily research-driven with 15 research organizations and 6 universities, but it maintains a practical edge with 5 industry partners and 7 SMEs (17% industry ratio). Spanning 13 countries, the group combines academic rigor with real-world application, ensuring the resulting tools are tested across diverse European pedo-climatic zones.
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Contact us to connect with the BENCHMARKS consortium for early access to the soil health dashboard.
