Looking after the soil to bring life and carbon back

Publication date	Wednesday, 1 August, 2018
Keywords	Climate and climate change carbon content carbon sequestration Farming practice reduced tillage

Benefits for the farmer, the environment, the climate, biodiversity and the soil itself

Alfred Grand is an organic arable farmer near Tulln, Austria. Minimising tillage and using a rotational cropping system on his 90 ha farm is what he swears by to increase organic matter in his soil. He is part of the Austrian Operational Group BIOBO.

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/eip/agriculture/en/file/eip-agri-inspirational-video-agri-challenge-soilEIP-AGRI inspirational video: AGRI challenge: soil fertility through carbon storage

At the beginning of August 2018, the EIP-AGRI Operational Groups database on the EIP-AGRI website included 15 Operational Groups in the EU working on carbon sequestration

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