Greece
We are a team of advisors dedicated to acquiring and promoting innovative climate-smart management and cultivation practices. Our goal is to effectively transfer this knowledge to producers, empowering them with the skills and motivation needed to implement these practices successfully.
France
These are the two main objectives of the Community of Practice: Upskill Advisors in the Community of Practice – Work transversally within a network of agricultural advisors to develop knowledge and skills in agroforestry, and: Disseminate Knowledge on Agroforestry – Create a guide and a resource library for agricultural advisors who are not specialists in agroforestry.
Slovenia
We are a young group of advisors, who is interested in learning, exploring the use of drone technology in agriculture. We will focus on what the Slovenian market offer, what are the possibilities for using drones in planting cover crops, using drones for biotic pest control and fertilizing crops.
Lithuania
Activities of the CoP are focused on implementation of innovative climate mitigation and adaptation solutions, extending knowledge of advisors of GHG emissions and tools for calculation of emissions, and strengthening of a role of advisors to become CSAs. CoP activities include group meetings and discussions, two training activities, participation in a demo event, visiting international agricultural exhibition.
Poland
The task of the CoP will be to exchange knowledge and experience in order to find solutions that can be implemented on cooperating farms to improve the efficiency of agricultural production, particularly in the area of improving soil fertility, its water retention capacity and the efficient use of nutrients by crops.
Italy
Water management at both national and regional level is a highly topical and important issue due to the now known climatic trends caused by climate change in this years in Italy. This cop want to explore new irrigation method and technologies to help ours fruit and vegetable farmers to manage in the better mode climate changes risks, also with water storage in the basins and other interesting aspects to adapt to high temperature and less rain.
Belgium
The Belgian CSA colleagues participating in this COP would like to improve their advisory skills to motivate Belgian dairy and livestock farmers to apply feasible and appropriate adaptation and mitigation measures from the CFD-AMP Library on the farm. Together they look for an approach that provides the advisor with guidance in 4 different steps.
Sweden
Biogas production with mainly focus on farm based biogas production. Biogas production from agricultural waste streams contribute to mainly three important values for the society; production of fossil free energy, reduction of GHG emissions and production of nutrient rich digestate used for fertilization. In the CoP we will develop knowledge in both more technical questions in the biogas production as well as microbial and chemical understanding of the anaerobic degradation process.
United Kingdom
The main activities will focus on expert led discussion groups for the relevant thematic areas as well as farm visits highlighting examples where climate smart measures have been implemented.
Latvia
The CoP aims to explore the increase of advisory capacity to provide holistic, customer-centred advice. Our CoP, consisting of 7 consultants from the Latvian Rural Advisory office and 2 practical farmers, has chosen to work on the real case. We will come together on the farm that is representative of a typical Latvian mid-size farm to work on practical advice.
Finland
Strengthening the expertise of advisors related to the assessment and improvement of the soil growth condition by participating and organizing trainings related to assessment and advisory tools. Improving the expertise and capabilities of advisors for farm-specific advice in order to promote the introduction of climate smart agricultural practices by testing tools in practical advisory work and sharing information in a practical way, for example at CFD demo events.
United Kingdom
Using climate smart practices to implement circular economies at farm level, this community of practice group (COP) will explore how farms can adopt circular economy principles to benefit the economics of the business and the wider environment. COP activities will champion farmers that have found pathways to a circular economy and create a route of accessibility to other farmers who may benefit from this knowledge.
Luxembourg
The CoP Ammonia-Emissions has the aim to exchange knowledge among most important AKIS-actors in Luxembourg and surrounding regions, in order to reach an important reduction of the emission coming up from the luxembourgish agriculture. The CoP starts with a general panoramic on the knowledge concerning ammonia-emissions and touches after them the most important fields of the emissions such as feeding, emission from stable, storage and spreading organic manure.
Netherlands
The main objectives for the upcoming years include exploring different measures for optimal nitrogen utilization on farms and determining suitable cover crops for specific crops, considering various factors like soil type, nitrogen release, soil health, and disease pressure. To achieve these goals, the group, consisting of advisors from three different Dutch organizations with diverse expertise, will engage in farm visits, expert talks, reflection sessions and farmer invitations.
Bulgaria
The first CoP in Bulgaria aims to improve the advisors’ knowledge on climate smart management of pastures and meadows with a focus on proven practices and technological solutions; the effects from climate change on pastures and meadows and advisory approaches and tools for farmers’ motivation. The CoP obligatory activities will be complemented by documentation and resource creation, peer review and feedback, expert lectures and guest speakers, field demonstrations and knowledge sharing sessions as well as a policy discussion group.
Croatia
Conservation agriculture represents the concept of agricultural production with the preservation of resources, which strives to achieve an acceptable profit, a high and sustainable level of production, while at the same time preserving the environment. It is based on the strengthening of natural biological processes above and below the soil surface.
United Kingdom
The core aim of our CoP is to develop our team of farm advisors to enable them with the skills and confidence to deliver climate smart advice.
Estonia
The CoP will focus on farming practices for climate smart farming in Baltics. We are aiming for better understanding the potentials of our region in terms of soil health and regenerative practices to develop a more in depth overview of suitable measures.
Romania
CoP will focus on feasible practices allowing the poultry farms to adapt to the new reality (adaptation to the effects of climate changes / adaptation to the specific legislation / framework). The main interest will be on energy management, manure management and the potential evolution of the rewarding mechanisms.
Denmark
The main objective of the CoP is to supply the advisors with tools to best advise farmers when choosing climate adaptation and mitigation measures. As a specific objective, the CoP have decided to start formulating a catalogue with climate mitigation and adaptation strategies, that are relevant for organic production in Denmark. This catalogue can be further developed by future CoPs.
Spain
Study tour to Learn about other experiences on CSF: Training session to optimimize techniques such as fertilization to reduce its use and emissions maintaining economic sustainaibility of farms; Field demonstration on smart use of fertilizing; Training session on the use of tools for carbon calculation and other CSF techniques; Advocacy campaign to promote the use of smart techniques for farmers.
Portugal
Climate change has impacted the consistency and intensity of rainfall within the Iberian Peninsula. One means of management is the provision of water by irrigation. Within Portugal, irrigated almond orchards have increased by over 300% in the past ten years. Considering that water applications are one of the fundamental drivers of yield, improved application timings will be required to mitigate climate change and improve farm resilience. By using a group of experts, this CoP will identify solutions to various challenges faced by almond farmers.
France
The members of this CoP are advisors involved in the deployment of Climate Smart Practices. They will exchange on tools and methods they can use to support farmers and rewarding mechanisms they can promote.
Serbia
The primary objective of the established community of practice (CoP) is to inform and educate Serbian AKIS actors about the impact of climate change on soil and to promote the development of climate-resilient agricultural practices. To achieve these goals, it is essential to involve policymakers in addressing the effects of climate change on soil health quality, thereby linking the CoP with agricultural policymakers.
Austria
Participants will build up basic knowledge on the subject of energy management in agriculture. What options/systems already exist and how they can be used.
Italy
The CoP is committed to finding strategies to adapt Italian livestock farms to climate change and at the same time trying to reduce the impact on the climate. In order to do this, forage production, manure storage and spreading and crop management are under consideration.
Spain
This CoP aims to create a knowledge base that serves to build a local agrarian culture with awareness of the risks associated with climate change, and to propose feasible measures that contribute to adaptation and mitigation with a special focus on soil management and the problems associated with pests and diseases of greenhouse crops.
Hungary
Among the various adaptation options (tillage practices, changing crop protection and fertilisation), the CoP focuses on the introduction of new crop species (e.g. protein crops) and varieties to increase crop security. We want to raise awareness of these climate-smart solutions among advisors and provide them with effective advisory tools to encourage farmers to develop a more diverse cropping structure that is more resilient to climate challenges.
France
The aims of our CoP are to address all the issues involved in methane emissions of dairy cattle, and the use of feed supplements to reduce enteric methane in cattle. Several tools will be implement through the life of the CoP: scientific knowledge, visits of experimental farms working on methane emissions, invitation of expert guests, field visits, and so on.
Czech Republic
The CoP focuses on developing advisory services in agroforestry, integrating these systems with existing landscape features as permanent green infrastructure. The aim is to enhance ecosystem services within agricultural landscapes and support sustainable farming practices.
Ireland
This CoP aims to gain a better basic understanding and knowledge in the “Additives for reducing enteric methane emissions” thematic area so that once this technology becomes readily available the advisors are ready to support its adoption on farm.
Germany
We are a young team of employees of Bioland working on a for us very important subject. Rewarding Mechanisms are getting more and more important. One difficulty we face are co2 certificate trader. We want to strenghten the position of farm when it comes to Co2 and balancing. Our goal is to balance as many farms a possible in the next years.
Poland
Group of 5 Advisors and Coach from north-eastern Poland who works in same company – agricultural advisory centre. Some of us are specialised in environmental protection and organic farming. We are open minded people and in our Community of Practice we will try to combine our different skills and knowledge background to find problems and solutions for Farmers in case of soil health. But also we will try to understand why biodiversity is so important.
Slovakia
The CoP’s annual plan focuses on raising awareness among farmers and stakeholders about the need for services of CSA and connecting with agricultural experts to build a strong advisory network. Key activities include enhancing the skills of advisors through ongoing education, collecting information on soil health management practices, identifying credible sources for best practices, creating tools for information exchange and exploring policy frameworks to incentivize sustainable soil management.
Germany
The CoP will focus on farming practices for climate smart farming in northern Germany. We are aiming for better understanding the potentials of our region in terms of soil health, water management and grassland management to develop a more in depth overview of suitable measures.
Germany
Our CoP is concerned with bringing the still relatively neglected topic of climate change to the attention of the advisory community in Bavaria and tackling the issues that have been identified so far. From a technical perspective, we are focussing on forage production and different forms of husbandry. We will explore under which circumstances grassland management enhances soil fertility and how emissions can be reduced in stable hunsbandry.
Poland
We are a group of 5 men. Our coach has over 30 years of experience. In face of climate changes we will try to figure it out how to keep moisture in soil and protect soil against leaching of nutrients. We plan to meet on farms and make our meetings practical.
Spain
We are a group of advisors with a strong day-to-day presence on the farms. Our mission is to achieve the establishment of a manure and slurry management plan in the Basque Country that ensures that both its storage and application is carried out in a sustainable manner.
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