Impacts

Soil-X-Change contributes to the green transition, climate-neutrality and sustainability areas, working toward enhancing and exchanging the knowledge of the main actors. It supports different goals of the European Green Deal, CAP and EU Soil Strategy, e.g. reducing the risk and use of chemical pesticides by 50%; reducing nutrient losses from agriculture by 50%, achieving a coverage of organic farming of at least 25% and making sustainable soil management the new normal by 2030;

Also, it supports interventions for knowledge exchange and dissemination of information and contributes to the targeted number of 6100 Operational groups for the current period (2021-2027). It helps to achieve the set target for carbon storage in soil and enhances the uptake and effective use of digital technologies;

It contributes to achieving 4 out of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (Goal 2, 12, 15, 17) and strengthening the science-policy interfaces by reaching 4000 researchers and 100 policy makers including AKIS Coordination Bodies;

The project has the potential to contribute to raising citizens' awareness by involving at least 500 citizens in the project activities and indirectly informing around 15000 citizens through our dissemination channels;

The deployment of the dashboard will facilitate and better inform 5000 farmers and agriculture practitioners and 2000 advisors on the longer term to make better and more comprehensive choices, show how they can implement them on their production system and what they will gain from their adoption. It will enhance scaling local solutions up to the EU level;

With all activities and outcomes, Soil-X-Change will drive a mindset and behavioural shift in the society towards sustainable agrifood systems;

Soil-X-Change use case demonstrations and adaptation of national practices to different respective conditions in other European countries strengthens the potential of the market of precision technologies supporting sustainable soil management and industry.