Résumé des résultats (Abstract)
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Soil health is crucial for challenges related to climate, environment and society. As such, this Soil Health and Food Mission proposaldirectly links in to the other HE missions, as well as to the European Green Deal and Farm to Fork strategies. Both public and privatesectors are proposing a sustainable vision, that depends on a reliable assessment of the effects of management and policy innovations onsoil health. Therefore, there is an urgent need to ensure that the EU sets the benchmark of a reliable cost-effective framework for measuringsoil health. In alignment with existing initiatives such as EU Soil Observatory, EJP Soil and the LUCAS Topsoil survey, and using openscience approaches, the BENCHMARKS consortium will co-design an Integrated Soil Health Monitoring Framework. This frameworkwill build upon the assessment of soil-based ecosystem functions to co-develop an interactive soil health dashboard for (1) the selectionof appropriate soil health indicators, (2) soil health assessment and indexation, and (3) recommendation of management practices tosupport soil health. The dashboard will be suitable at local, landscape, regional and European scales for a variety of stakeholders in urban,agricultural and forestry land use systems. BENCHMARKS indicators will be relevant to the stakeholder’s objectives, applicable to thedifferent land use systems and pedo-climatic zone and appropriate in terms of logistical, financial and sensitivity requirements. To informon the appropriate spatial resolution of indicators, the Soil Health Mission and BENCHMARKS proposed indicators (sample-basedmeasurements, stats (data and model derived measurements), space (earth observation techniques)) and citizen science observationswill be tested in 24 Living Labs across Europe. Finally, BENCHMARKS will support policy development and value-chain innovationthrough increased evidence on the links between soil health, functions and ecosystem services.
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