OPENAIRE OpenAire Datacite Research@WUR Sygma Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE) SLU publication database Recolector de Ciencia Abierta, RECOLECTA DOAJ Crossref CORE (RIOXX-UK Aggregator) riUAL - Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Almería (Spain) Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute NIBIO Brage PURE Aarhus University Bern Open Repository and Information System (BORIS) Archivio istituzionale della ricerca - Università di Padova European Union Open Data Portal https://eprints.glos.ac.uk/11159/1/11159%20Webb%2C%20et%20al%20%282022%29%20Soil-improving%20cropping%20systems%20for%20sustainable%20and%20profitable%20farming%20in%20Europe.pdf http://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/11/6/780/pdf https://pub.epsilon.slu.se/28669/1/hessel-r-et-al-220808.pdf https://boris.unibe.ch/170337/1/land-11-00780-v2.pdf https://www.research.unipd.it/bitstream/11577/3462064/1/land-11-00780.pdf https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/11/6/780/pdf https://eprints.ncl.ac.uk/fulltext.aspx?url=282070/A8C9E72D-16C8-421E-A19E-B021CC82D589.pdf&pub_id=282070 https://doi.org/10.3390/land11060780 Land Open Access 2022-05-25 2022-11-24 <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>Soils form the basis for agricultural production and other ecosystem services, and soil management should aim at improving their quality and resilience. Within the SoilCare project, the concept of soil-improving cropping systems (SICS) was developed as a holistic approach to facilitate the adoption of soil management that is sustainable and profitable. SICS selected with stakeholders were monitored and evaluated for environmental, sociocultural, and economic effects to determine profitability and sustainability. Monitoring results were upscaled to European level using modelling and Europe-wide data, and a mapping tool was developed to assist in selection of appropriate SICS across Europe. Furthermore, biophysical, sociocultural, economic, and policy reasons for (non)adoption were studied. Results at the plot/farm scale showed a small positive impact of SICS on environment and soil, no effect on sustainability, and small negative impacts on economic and sociocultural dimensions. Modelling showed that different SICS had different impacts across Europe—indicating the importance of understanding local dynamics in Europe-wide assessments. Work on adoption of SICS confirmed the role economic considerations play in the uptake of SICS, but also highlighted social factors such as trust. The project’s results underlined the need for policies that support and enable a transition to more sustainable agricultural practices in a coherent way.</p></article> S1 Soil Science crop management sustainable soil management S589.75_Agriculture 01 natural sciences 12. Responsible consumption soil quality; sustainable soil management; adoption; crop management; environmental dimension; sociocultural dimension; economic dimension 11. Sustainability Life Science soil quality 910 Geography & travel Agricultural Science adoption 550 Earth sciences & geology 0105 earth and related environmental sciences 2. Zero hunger environmental dimension S economic dimension Agriculture 15. Life on land Environmental Sciences related to Agriculture and Land-use sociocultural dimension 13. Climate action Rudi Hessel, Guido Wyseure, Ioanna S. Panagea, Abdallah Alaoui, Mark S. Reed, Hedwig van Delden, Melanie Muro, Jane Mills, Oene Oenema, Francisco Areal, Erik van den Elsen, Simone Verzandvoort, Falentijn Assinck, Annemie Elsen, Jerzy Lipiec, Aristeidis Koutroulis, Lilian O’Sullivan, Martin A. Bolinder, Luuk Fleskens, Ellen Kandeler, Luca Montanarella, Marius Heinen, Zoltan Toth, Moritz Hallama, Julián Cuevas, Jantiene E. M. Baartman, Ilaria Piccoli, Tommy Dalgaard, Jannes Stolte, Jasmine E. Black, Charlotte-Anne Chivers, 2022-05-25 journalpaper <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>Soils form the basis for agricultural production and other ecosystem services, and soil management should aim at improving their quality and resilience. Within the SoilCare project, the concept of soil-improving cropping systems (SICS) was developed as a holistic approach to facilitate the adoption of soil management that is sustainable and profitable. SICS selected with stakeholders were monitored and evaluated for environmental, sociocultural, and economic effects to determine profitability and sustainability. Monitoring results were upscaled to European level using modelling and Europe-wide data, and a mapping tool was developed to assist in selection of appropriate SICS across Europe. Furthermore, biophysical, sociocultural, economic, and policy reasons for (non)adoption were studied. Results at the plot/farm scale showed a small positive impact of SICS on environment and soil, no effect on sustainability, and small negative impacts on economic and sociocultural dimensions. Modelling showed that different SICS had different impacts across Europe—indicating the importance of understanding local dynamics in Europe-wide assessments. Work on adoption of SICS confirmed the role economic considerations play in the uptake of SICS, but also highlighted social factors such as trust. The project’s results underlined the need for policies that support and enable a transition to more sustainable agricultural practices in a coherent way.</p></article> Soil-Improving Cropping Systems for Sustainable and Profitable Farming in Europe 10.3390/land11060780 677407