Institut für Strategien und Folgenabschätzung
Through the implementation of model and demonstration projects (MuD) in the field of "Humus formation in fruit and vegetable cultivation as well as in the cultivation of wine and hops", innovative and long-term measures for humus maintenance and development are to be implemented and supported on demonstration farms. Promising measures are to be demonstrated to agricultural and horticultural practice and thus disseminated. For effective and targeted dissemination, it is essential that the measures have a demonstrably positive effect on the humus content and greenhouse gas emissions, that they are economically viable and can be easily implemented in operation. The aim of the scientific monitoring (WB), which is provided jointly by the Julius Kühn Institute and the Thünen Institute, is therefore the comprehensive evaluation of the effectiveness of the measures with regard to humus preservation and formation, climate protection and economic efficiency. In addition to balancing the soil carbon content and the greenhouse gas emissions of plant production, the agronomic and socio-economic evaluation of the measures in the context of the various production systems and the overall farm is decisive, including the evaluation of the promoting and hindering factors of their successful implementation. For MuD, the WB offers the added value of coordinated data collection and evaluation. User-friendly digital tools for data collection are to be developed, which are adapted to the requirements of the specific production systems, while at the same time ensuring the comparability of the data across all MuD involved. The WB supports the knowledge-based further development of the humus-promoting measures on the participating farms and beyond that the knowledge transfer via the data evaluation and interpretation and the feedback of the findings into the MuD. In addition, recommendations for action on humus maintenance and development are derived and made available to politicians.
Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture
