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The EU-funded STRATUS project aims to connect advisors across the continent. Specifically, STRATUS aims to accelerate knowledge creation and sharing, guiding farmers in implementing sustainable practices aligned with the ambitious Farm-to-Fork and biodiversity strategies. By identifying 48 best practices, the project supports farmers and fosters local adaptation through 10 Communities of Practice, ensuring integration into the Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation Systems of Member States.

Integrating diverse renewable energy sources, optimising energy needs, and improving waste and land management in rural areas are essential for meeting local sustainability goals and demand for electricity, heating, cooling, and transportation resources. The EU-funded project ECOLOOP focuses on reducing carbon footprints through the increased use of renewable energy, self-consumption, and effective agricultural/forest waste management. Its objectives include enhancing biogas production from waste, combining renewable sources like biogas, biomass, agri-PV, and geothermal energy, while advancing sustainable agricultural practices. ECOLOOP promotes regional development, contributing to job creation, gender equality, and climate resilience. The project's impact will be showcased in pilot sites across Bulgaria, Spain, Estonia and Slovenia, considering diverse environmental and socio-economic factors.

Land degradation, a multifaceted and urgent challenge, results in a chain reaction of catastrophic consequences. It drives climate change, biodiversity loss, water pollution, and diminishes global agricultural productivity. To tackle this issue, the ERC-funded SHARE-CTD project develops a holistic approach. By combining global measurement, econometric research designs, and innovative machine learning, the project will provide valuable insights for academics, policymakers and the public. Specifically, it will shed light into the causal impacts of public policies on land conditions, comparing their cost-benefit ratios, and identifying factors influencing their performance. This will improve policies and mitigate the damaging impacts of land degradation.

Aim of LIFE PeatCarbon project is the implementation of Climate Change Mitigation (CCM) measures in peatlands, adaptation and demonstration of innovative tools and applicable methods for GHG monitoring.  The aim will be reached by improving knowledge and enhancing the capacity for applying the CCM measures, demonstration of approaches for the climate-smart management of degraded peatlands and monitoring of the success of the implementation in The Baltic Sea region, thus contributing to the EU commitments under The Paris Agreement and providing transferable and replicable tools for elaboration, implementation. 

Considering the existing knowledge on bio-waste management, LIFE BIOBEST will make the most of its network and their access to a large number of datasets to identify and validate current Best Practices (BPs) along the bio-waste management chain (from generation to treatment) that promote quality compost and digestate production and Key Performing Indicators (KPIs). An exhaustive analysis of datasets will provide a set of BPs and through a set of interconnected co-creation meetings with relevant stakeholders, this project will reveal the technical, regulatory, economic, and environmental barriers to widely adopt the proposed BPs.