Deliverable 2: Quality and quantity of data available for each identified crop/livestock carbon farming practice. The report is the summary of the activities carried out in the Action A2. The Report aims to identify and quantify the potential for CO2 sequestration and/or emissions reduction of carbon-farming practices applied to agricultural soils of the Italian region of Lombardy while accounting for the climatic zones and soil texture classes that characterize said region. The Report presents the research methodology as well as the set of reviewed carbon-farming practices with their respective estimated mitigation potential for climate change and/or carbon sequestration. The Report includes two annexes: - Survey for Italian farmers - Database with the impact of carbon farming practices.
By virtue of the high scientific value of the research conduct and accompanying results, which makes a novel contribution to the knowledge gap identified for the mitigation potential of CO2 emissions by sustainable management of agricultural European soils, the present communication represents a lighter, albeit, representative version of the final report for action A2. Specifically, some sections are temporarily omitted as a precaution measure to avoid possible trade-offs which may arise during the submission procedure of a manuscript – which includes such sections- for a scientific journal and the subsequent peer-review phase. The full version of the Report will be provided for public consultancy within the end of C-FARMs project (31/05/2023).