About
This Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Carbon Farming Project comprises an elaboration, assessment and testing in practice for the implementation of financial incentives and compensation for carbon sequestration in agriculture in the Netherlands.
Cooperation
The PPS is a cooperation between private partners Agrifirm, Royal Cosun, Friesland Campina and Rabobank, the ministry of Agriculture and Wageningen Environmental Research . It is based on a defined and widely-supported methodology and elaborate protocol for farmers to stimulate and support sustainable soil management, biodiversity and carbon sequestration in the soil.
Project team
This project builds on completed and long-term work in Smart Land Use research program on incentives and the Common Agricultural Policy of the EU (CAP). It connects with EU initiatives on Carbon Farming (within the European Joint Programme on Soil (EJP Soil), in line with EU policies under the Green Deal and CAP. The project was submitted by Agrifirm and supported in part by Wageningen Research Foundation and Wageningen Environmental Research (WenR), in collaboration with independent consultancy firm Centre for Agriculture and Environment (CLM) and research institute Louis Bolk Instituut (LBI).
The project is financed by the Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality (LNV), Agrifirm, Royal Cosun, Friesland Campina and Rabobank.
