This project emerges as a public-private partnership between partners with recognized technical capacity and extensive experience in different sectors of the agri-food chain, enabling the creation of links between knowledge and cutting-edge technologies among farmers, researchers, companies, and communication services. To achieve the objectives set, MAXi-CoberLEG will implement a methodology based on the analysis of the potential results (R) obtained in each project activity by all partners and immediately transferred to the industrial sector for optimization for end-users, thus generating a cross-cutting view of the results. This initiative responds to a comprehensive approach that combines aspects of agrodiversity, genetic improvement, physiology, production, and plant quality, and links them to the techno-economic demands and preferences of both producers and end consumers, in order to improve the competitiveness of a key export sector for the Spanish agri-food economy through R&D&I actions.
- Evaluation of the adaptation of native lipin varieties;
- Contextualisation of environmental and soil conditions - farm selection and experimental design of plots;
- Identification of the health problem;
- Selection of plant species/lupine varieties: viability, adaptability and productivity tests;
- Assesment of resilience in the agroecosystem of vegetable covers;
- Evaluate the evolution of the cover in microplot trials: measurement of biomass, yield and phenological state of lupine;
- Evaluation of pest incidence in microplot trials;
- Assessment of the benefits on the soil of the effect of vegetable cover;
- Analysis of soil properties;
- Effect of cover on soil moisture;
- Initial state of the microbiome;
- Evaluate the development of the soil microbiota;
- Healthier diets from the use of vegetable covers in citrus;
- Evaluate the quality and production of the fruit;
- Analysis of metabolites (Metabolomics Platform);
- Study the interaction between plant cover (biological control, soil quality and health, and microbiota) with fruit quality.
Thematic areas
BiodiversityProject contribution to Mission Soil’s:
Specific objectives
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1. Reduce land degradation relating to desertification
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2. Conserve and increase soil organic carbon stocks
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3. No net soil sealing and increase the reuse of urban soils
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4. Reduce soil pollution and enhance restoration
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5. Prevent erosion
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6. Improve soil structure to enhance habitat quality for soil biota and crops
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7. Reduce the EU global footprint on soils
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8. Increase soil literacy in society across Member States
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Operational objectives
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1. Build capacities and the knowledge base for soil stewardship
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2. Co-create and upscale place-based innovations to improve soil health in all places
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3. Develop an integrated EU soil monitoring system and track progress towards soil health
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4. Engage with the soil user community and society at large
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Innovation hotspots
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1. Carbon farming
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2. Soil pollution and restoration
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3. Soil biodiversity including the microbiome
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4. Circular economy solutions
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Cross-cutting dimensions
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1. Business
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2. Digital
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3. Territorial
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4. International
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