Your experiences, whether positive or negative, opinions and knowledge of farming systems are essential, regardless of whether or not you have already adopted certain practices!
In order to gain a better understanding of the factors that facilitate and encourage the adoption of climate-friendly practices, or, on the other hand, the factors that impede, block or discourage the implementation of these practices on farms, ClieNFarms has a questionnaire for farmers, which can be found on
https://tinyurl.com/clieNFarms
However, the ClieNFarms project also refers to 19 networks of farmers within the European Union, who integrate and test solutions and practices in situ. These solutions and practices are chosen in a participatory manner, adapted to the local context and lead to a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions and/or an increase in the amount of carbon stored in the soil. The variety of networks distributed across the EU cover a range of production systems and different soil types and climates. A greenhouse gas assessment is carried out (using the CRA-W DECIDE tool and the Cool Farm tool) on each farm, in order to analyse the farm at the onset of the project and help choose the practices that should be implemented.
In Wallonia, the CRA-W supports and manages a network of nine farms, which are members of the SCAM-ACS club and mainly grow cash crops. In addition to the impact on the climate, the goal is that the practices that are implemented will also lead to an overall improvement in the production system, and make farms more sustainable. The participatory choice of the practices that are developed and monitored within this group primarily concerns:
- intercrop coverage (greater success/improvement/monitoring): to restore nitrogen to the crops and help store carbon in the soil;
- optimisation and/or reduction of synthetic nitrogen fertilisation.
Additional practices are also implemented within the farms in a differentiated manner based on their situation, production system and greenhouse gas assessment.
Funding: Project subsidised by the EU, Agreement no. 101036822
