Chapter 4 - LIFE GEOCARBON: carbon farming geolocation support by establishing a spatial soil database management system

Agriculture plays an important role in climate change mitigation and adaptation because is a major source of greenhouse gas emissions. Carbon farming, as a model of applying a variety of agricultural methods aimed at sequestering atmospheric carbon into the soil and in crops, has been proposed by the European Commission as one of the major pilots of the forthcoming Common Agricultural Policy aiming to reduce the GHG emissions. LIFE GEOCARBON is a preparatory project, funded by LIFE program of the European Commission that aims to contribute to the implementation of a carbon balance system, where activity data (agricultural management practices) will be provided by farmers using a user-friendly mobile application on the field. The activity data will be merged with all current available geospatial datasets to support the development of a carbon farming calculation tool, where carbon sequestration and CO2 emissions will be effectively estimated.