LIFE Helpsoil
LIFE HELPSOIL is a project financed by the LIFE+ Environment policy & Governance Programme of the European Union. The overall objective of the project is to demonstrate and promote CONSERVATION AGRICOLTURE practices and innovative solutions for the management of agricoltural land aimed at:
- enhancing SUSTAINABILITY and COMPETITIVENESS of agricolture.
- improving ECOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS OF SOIL, preventing threats and softening environmantal impacts.
PROJECT AREA
The project actions, starting on July 2013 and ending on July 2017, will concern the Po plain and the bordening hilly areas of th Alpine and Apennine margin and will be applied in 20 DEMONSTRATIVE FARMS.
Helpsoil website: http://www.lifehelpsoil.eu/
Contact for the Emilia-Romagna:
- administrative manager:
DG Agricoltura, economia ittica, attività faunistico-venatorie, Servizio Programmi, monitoraggio e valutazione
- technical manager:
DG Ambiente, Difesa del suolo e della costa , Servizio geologico, sismico e dei suoli
Partners
Regione Lombardia project leader.
Other partners are: Regione Piemonte, Regione Veneto, Regione Emilia Romagna, Regione Autonoma Friuli Venezia Giulia, Ente Regionale per i Servizi all’Agricoltura e alle Foreste (ERSAF), Centro Ricerche Produzioni Animali (CRPA), Veneto Agricoltura.
Cofinaziatore è Kuhn- Italia srl.