iSQAPER
PARCERIA:
WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY. NETHERLANDS
JOINT RESEARCH CENTER (JRC). ITALY
RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ORGANIC AGRICULTURE (FIBL). SWITZERLAND
UNIVERSITÄT BERN (UNIBE). SWITZERLAND
UNIVERSITY OF ÉVORA (UE). PORTUGAL
TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MADRID (UPM). SPAIN
INSTITUTE FOR EUROPEAN ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY (IEEP). UK AND BELGIUM
FOUNDATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF THE MEDITERRANEAN (MEDES). ITALY
ISRIC WORLD SOIL INFORMATION (ISRIC). NETHERLANDS
STICHTING DIENST LANDBOUWKUNDIG ONDERZOEK (DLO). NETHERLANDS
INSTITUTE OF AGROPHYSICS OF THE POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (IA). POLAND
ESTONIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES, INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES (IAES). ESTONIA
UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA (UL). SLOVENIA
NATIONAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE FOR SOIL SCIENCE, AGROCHEMISTRY AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION (ICPA). ROMANIA
POLYTECHNIC OF COIMBRA-AGRARIAN SCHOOL OF COIMBRA (ESAC). PORTUGAL
UNIVERSITY OF MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ (UMH). SPAIN
AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY ATHENS (AUA). GREECE
INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL RESOURCES AND REGIONAL PLANNING OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES (IARRP). CHINA
INSTITUTE OF SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (ISWC). CHINA
SOIL AND FERTILIZER INSTITUTE OF THE SICHUAN ACADEMY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES (SFI). CHINA
COREPAGE (COREPAGE). NETHERLANDS
BOTHENDS (BOTHENDS). NETHERLANDS
UNIVERSITY OF PANNONIA (UP). HUNGARY
INSTITUTE OF SOIL SCIENCE OF THE CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (ISS). CHINA
GAEC DE LA BRANCHETTE (GB). GREAT BRITAIN
INVESTIGADOR RESPONSÁVEL IPC:
ANTÓNIO JOSÉ DINIS FERREIRA (ESAC/CERNAS)
FINANCIAMENTO:
Investimento Global Elegível: 6.876.625,0€
Apoio da União Europeia: Incentivo Não Reembolsável (100,0%): 5.375.375,00 €
Investimento elegível IPC: 185.625,00 €
Período de execução:
Data de início: 17/04/2015
Data de fim: 16/04/2020
CARACTERIZAÇÃO SUMÁRIA:
SUMMARY
Increasingly, soil is recognized as a non-renewable resource because, once degraded, the restoration of its productivity is an extremely slow process.
Given the importance of soils for crop and livestock production as well as for providing wider ecosystem services for local and global societies, maintaining the land in good condition is of vital importance.
To manage the use of agricultural soils well, decision-makers need science-based, easy to apply and cost-effective tools to assess soil quality and function.
The most important aims the isQAPER project will work on are to:
- Integrate existing soil quality related information
- Synthesize the evidence for agricultural management effects provided by long-term field trials
- Derive and identify innovative soil quality indicators that can be integrated into an easy-to-use interactive soil quality assessment tool
- Develop, with input from a variety of stakeholders, a multilingual Soil Quality Application (SQAPP) for in-field soil quality assessment and monitoring
- Test, refine, and roll out SQAPP across Europe and China as a new standard for holistic assessment of agricultural soil quality
- Use a trans-disciplinary, multi-actor approach to validate and support SQAPP