Can the carbon accumulated or not emitted in carbon farming practices be certified?
As part of the LIFE C-FARMs project, the PEFC Italia partner is studying the creation of a Standard to certify the carbon stock deriving from sustainable agronomic practices. Here is our interview with the experts who are working on this activity. Who are you and what role do you play within your organization? PEFC is […]
Carbon Farming in the World: November news by C-FARMs
The LIFE C-FARMs project reports, as usual for months, the most important news from all over the world concerning carbon farming. For the November news review, there is an obvious focus on news issued from COP27. By November, the European Commission will issue the regulation to certify carbon farming practices, “but leave key decisions to […]
Carbon Farming in brief
Two video interviews, made at the Mantua Food&Science Festival, to two LIIFE C-FARMs project partners available on the YouTube channel. Lucia Perugini and Antonio Brunori, respectively Senior scientific manager in CMCC (Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change foundation) and Secretary General of PEFC Italy, in the roles of C-FARMs partners have spoken to the microphones of […]
Evaluation of the application potential of IT tools and development of a prototype demonstrator web application for the management of “Carbon Farming”
This Action coordinated by Terrasystem with the support of FederlegnoArredo, Confagricoltura e Università degli Studi della Tuscia di Viterbo, has the main objective to design and develop an IT Web tool useful to produce scenarios related to carbon farming practices. This tool has the goal of supporting decision making by public authorities at the regional […]
Carbon Farming in the World: October news by C-FARMs
The LIFE C-FARMs project reports in this article the October news, coming from all over the world, explaining the world of carbon farming, some solutions and best practices to combat climate change implementing sustainable activities in the agro-forestry sector. Beef in the time of net zero. In this article, you can find several initiatives going […]
The first deliverables of the C-FARMs project have been published
The LIFE C-FARMs project, now in full of its activites 12 months after the Kick Off Meeting of December 2021, has produced the first deliverables expected by the project. The project partners are working according to the deadlines indicated in the project, the first actions in chronological order are concluded, and with them the first […]
C-FARMs in GreenItaly 2022, the report of the Symbola Foundation and Unioncamere
The GreenItaly 2022 Report “An economy on a human scale for the future of Europe” was officially presented on October 25th 2022 by the Symbola Foundation and Unioncamere. The report, now in its thirteenth edition, studies and analyzes “green” companies in Italy, highlighting their constant growth over the years and their marked ability to deal […]
GIS-FARM: the innovative tool for data management developed by C-FARMs project
The main objective of action coordinated by Unitus, was to integrate information from different data sources collected under other projectual actions regarding statistical information at farm level, geospatial data sets on land cover, statistical information on the impacts of carbon farming practices, in a GIS-based infrastructure (GIS-FARM). This methodology focuses on defined areas within the […]
Can poplar farming in Italy contribute to carbon farming practices? Answers from LIFE C-FARMs
In order to face the lack of existing data on the distribution of poplar plantations (currently available until 2017), an update of the mapping to 2021 has been planned and implemented for the Lombardy Region. The action also involved an analysis of the capacity of poplar plantations to mitigate climate change, both in relation to the soils and the contribution made by Harvested Wood Products (HWP), of which post-harvest processes were also considered.
C-FARMs at the Mantova Food & Science Festival
During the event that aims to bring together agriculture and culture, science and pleasure, the meeting “What are we talking about when we talk about carbon farming” was held. Lucia Perugini (CMCC) and Antonio Brunori (PEFC Italy) among the participants.