About
Black to the Future team involves important European Universities and research centers, innovative start-up and large industrial companies thanks to the EIT FOOD RIS innovation program.
The Project
Reducing desertification, improving soils,increasing carbon sequestration with growers cooperation.
According to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), the effects of climate change contribute to the advancing threat of land degradation. Soil degradation affects directly or indirectly the food security then human nutrition, consequently.
Sustainable land Management (SLM), defined as adoption of appropriate land-use systems to maximize the economic,
social and environmental benefits, is the obvious approach to combat soil depletion, desertification and to mitigate climate change.
Increase of Soil Organic Carbon (SOC) is the key of most
sustainable agricultural practices.
Adding organic carbon and nutrients by means of compost
and biochar obtained from agricultural side streams can be
considered a land-based mitigation option in improving the
management of nitrogen, water retention and carbon stocks.
Black to the future’s crew put together both high scientific
knowledge in soil and agronomic science and business view
to fulfil the land good practice recommended by scientists worldwide.
Black to the future aims to implement sustainable agriculture practices in European areas at high risk of desertification like Mediterranean regions such as Italy, Cyprus and Spain, Italy.
Additionally it aims to develop innovative vertical farming systems thanks to the collaboration with an innovative startup in Belgium.
This will make it possible to share knowledge between farmers from different European regions in order to innovate and advance in the European agricultural system.
The Project
Reducing desertification, improving soils, increasing carbon sequestration with growers cooperation.
According to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), the effects of climate change contribute to the advancing threat of land degradation. Soil degradation affects directly or indirectly the food security then human nutrition, consequently.
Sustainable land Management (SLM), defined as adoption of appropriate land-use systems to maximize the economic,
social and environmental benefits, is the obvious approach to combat soil depletion, desertification and to mitigate climate change.
Increase of Soil Organic Carbon (SOC) is the key of most
sustainable agricultural practices.
Adding organic carbon and nutrients by means of compost
and biochar obtained from agricultural side streams can be
considered a land-based mitigation option in improving the
management of nitrogen, water retention and carbon stocks.
Black to the future’s crew put together both high scientific knowledge in soil and agronomic science and business view to fulfil the land good practice recommended by scientists worldwide.
Black to the future aims to implement sustainable agriculture practices in European areas at high risk of desertification like Mediterranean regions such as Italy, Cyprus and Spain, Italy.
Additionally it aims to develop innovative vertical farming systems thanks to the collaboration with an innovative startup in Belgium.
This will make it possible to share knowledge between farmers from different European regions in order to innovate and advance in the European agricultural system.