Funding: Horizon 2020 Framework Programme for Research and Innovation, European Union
Coordinator: Delphy - Worldwide Expertise for Food & Flowers (the Netherlands)
Time period: October 2018 - September 2021
Healthy soils will play an essential role in the future in European horticultural and arable crop cultivation.
Newly developed best practices and sound crop rotations permit to maintain, improve or re-establish soil health in Europe.
The adaptation of optimised crop rotation as a basis to prevent build-up of soil borne diseases, which is specific to the needs and situation of each individual grower
With Best4Soil we are building a community of practice network across Europe by inter-connecting growers, advisers, educators and researchers. This network promotes knowledge ready for practice on 4 best practices (compost, green manure, anaerobic disinfestation, (bio) solarisation) for the control of soil borne diseases.
To share useful information with operators in arable crop and horticultural plant cultivation with open-access databases and practical guidelines about protecting and restoring soil health. To help fight against soilborne infections and plant pathogen nematodes by knowledge transfer. To contribute to the formation of international professional networks with the participation of farmers, advisors, educators and researchers in 20 European countries for efficient knowledge transfer. To promote local communities of farmers, the members of which share their experiences, thus helping to spread good practices in the region.The aims of Best4Soil are:
