A EUROPEAN-WIDE NETWORK OF PILOT FARMERS IMPLEMENTING AND DEMONSTRATING CLIMATE SMART SOLUTIONS FOR A CARBON NEUTRAL EUROPE

Climate Farm Demo is a unique pan-European network of demonstration farmers covering 28 countries and all pedo-climatic areas.

Project aims to increase, speed-up and disseminate the adoption of climate smart farming practices and tools. To reach this goal, it will set-up a network of pilot farms across Europe and associated countries.   This network will consist of 1,500 pilot demo farms covering all European pedo-climatic areas and different agricultural sectors, from animal husbandry and mixed farming systems, to specialised arable crops and horticulture crops,  including  organic  farming. Climate Farm Advisors will support the pilot demo farmers to implement climate smart farming practices. Farm demo events will demonstrate technical and social innovations to the wider farming community. 

Conserving and enhancing the Earth's natural terrestrial carbon sinks, such as soils and plants, forests, farmland and wetlands, is essential. The European Green Deal will give research and innovation a major role in supporting the design and implementation of policies to ensure that the EU's climate objectives are met. The implementation of the Climate Farm Demo is expected to strengthen the capacity of European farmers to implement, demonstrate and adopt smart climate smart farming (CSF) practices across the EU and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 35% over the project's lifetime, thereby achieving the EU's draft 2030 climate target.

Duration: 84 months (01 October 2022 – 30 September 2029)

Funding: EU (Call: HORIZON-CL6-2021-CLIMATE-01-04)

Project number: 1010600212

Hungarian project leader: Dr. Vér András PhD, senior research fellow, ver.andras@sze.hu

A brief overview of the project in pictures:

The map below shows the countries involved in the project, classified based on their level of total greenhouse gas emissions and the number of farms per country.