OPENAIRE OpenAire Sygma Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE) Archivio Istituzionale della Ricerca (AperTO) - Università di Torino Crossref European Union Open Data Portal https://iris.unito.it/bitstream/2318/1960350/1/A56%20Falcao%20SUM.pdf https://doi.org/2318/1960350 Soil Use and Management Open Access 2024-02-22 2024-03-06 Abstract <p>Preventing and reversing soil degradation is essential to maintaining the ecosystem services provided by soils and guaranteeing food security. In addition to the scientific community, it is critical to engage multiple stakeholders to assess the degree of soil degradation and mitigation strategies' impact and meet the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals, European Union's Common Agricultural Policy, and other national and international goals. A semi￢ﾀﾐstructured questionnaire was distributed across countries participating in the EU Horizon￢ﾀﾐ2020 ￢ﾀﾜTransforming Unsustainable management of soils in key agricultural systems in E.U. and China. Developing an integrated platform of alternatives to reverse soil degradation (TUdi).￢ﾀﾝ Using farmers' associations and educational institutions as an intermediate to distribute the questionnaires was an effective strategy for gathering a high number of responses. Results from 456 responses to the questionnaire showed that farm country, size, type of agriculture, and educational level of farm managers were significantly associated with the farmers' perception of soil degradation issues. Farm size and type of agriculture were also correlated with applying a nutrient management plan. The implications of the results for soil conservation measures are discussed. Additionally, we highlight the potential of projects such as TUdi for creating collaboration networks to drive widespread adoption by farmers of technologies to reverse the degradation of agricultural soils.</p 2. Zero hunger 330 agricultural stakeholders, conservation agriculture, Europe, questionnaire, soil degradation 13. Climate action 11. Sustainability 1. No poverty 0401 agriculture, forestry, and fisheries 04 agricultural and veterinary sciences 15. Life on land 01 natural sciences 630 12. Responsible consumption 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Raquel N. R. Falcão, Michal Vrana, Csilla Hudek, Marco Pittarello, Laura Zavattaro, Barbara Moretti, Peter Strauss, Gunter Liebhard, Yangyang Li, Xiaoping Zhang, Miroslav Bauer, Tomáš Dostál, José A. Gomez, Iria Benavente‐Ferraces, Juan C. García‐Gil, César Plaza, Gema Guzmán, Maria Llanos Lopez, Bela Pirkó, Zsofia Bakacsi, Dimitre Nokolov, Josef Krása, 2024-01-01 journalpaper Abstract <p>Preventing and reversing soil degradation is essential to maintaining the ecosystem services provided by soils and guaranteeing food security. In addition to the scientific community, it is critical to engage multiple stakeholders to assess the degree of soil degradation and mitigation strategies' impact and meet the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals, European Union's Common Agricultural Policy, and other national and international goals. A semi￢ﾀﾐstructured questionnaire was distributed across countries participating in the EU Horizon￢ﾀﾐ2020 ￢ﾀﾜTransforming Unsustainable management of soils in key agricultural systems in E.U. and China. Developing an integrated platform of alternatives to reverse soil degradation (TUdi).￢ﾀﾝ Using farmers' associations and educational institutions as an intermediate to distribute the questionnaires was an effective strategy for gathering a high number of responses. Results from 456 responses to the questionnaire showed that farm country, size, type of agriculture, and educational level of farm managers were significantly associated with the farmers' perception of soil degradation issues. Farm size and type of agriculture were also correlated with applying a nutrient management plan. The implications of the results for soil conservation measures are discussed. Additionally, we highlight the potential of projects such as TUdi for creating collaboration networks to drive widespread adoption by farmers of technologies to reverse the degradation of agricultural soils.</p Farmers' perception of soil health: The use of quality data and its implication for farm management 2318/1960350 101000224