Projects

Carbon Action platform brings together and conducts scientific research to enhance soil carbon sequestration and improve climate impacts of agriculture. The platform contains multiple research projects and a multi-disciplinary network of researchers.

JÄRKI and the Carbon Action farmer collaboration

Baltic Sea Action Group’s JÄRKI project has been working actively to promote sustainable agriculture since 2009. In 2019 Louise and Göran Ehrnrooth Foundation and the Sophie von Julinin’s Foundation granted the third 5-year funding for JÄRKI and the collaboration with carbon farmers.

TWINWIN project

The Nessling Foundation finances the Carbon Action project platform’s research on how biodiversity impacts the ability of fields to store carbon. In addition to scientific research, the emphasis is on creating impact.

STN MULTA research consortium

Strategic funding for Carbon Action targets ’’stn MULTA: Multi-benefit solutions to climate-smart agriculture’’

FIN SOIL ACTION

FIN SOIL ACTION is funded by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry as part of the ’Catch the carbon’ -programme. The project strengthens the impact and visibility of Finnish soil know-how and co-operation with key international networks.

SOILADVICE project

The project ’’SOILADVICE: Sustainable soil management and carbon farming through extensive use of research findings and advisor practices", funded by Maa- ja vesitekniikan tuki, focuses on advancing agricultural advisor practices.

CARBOCREDIT project

Verification of carbon sequestration in grass fields (CARBOCREDIT) project belongs to CARBO portfolio, funded by Business Finland. The project focuses on verification.

AGROFORESTRY project

"The potential of trees to mitigate climate change in northern arable lands" studies agroforestry as a tool to mitigate climate change and agroforestry's effects on crop yields.

SOIL AMENDMENTS project

The project studies how wood-derived soil amendments affect microbes in agricultural soil and in oat roots. The project is mainly funded by Maj and Tor Nessling Foundation and Finnish Cultural Foundation.

FluCS Tool project

"Solutions for reliably quantifying carbon sequestration in soil", funded by Maj and Tor Nessling Foundation, develops a tool for reliably measuring soil carbon sequestration.

Carbon Action Svenskfinland project

Carbon Action Svenskfinland -project expands the Carbon Action platform to the Swedish-speaking region of Finland. The project is funded by SLC, Jordfonden and Svenska Kulturfonden.

INAR RI Agriculture project

The INAR RI Agriculture project, funded by the Academy of Finland and coordinated by the University of Helsinki, investigates the greenhouse gas emissions and carbon sequestration capacity of northern agricultural lands.

LIFE CarbonFarmingScheme

LIFE CarbonFarmingScheme -project aims to put forth concepts to incentivize climate action and carbon sequestration by farmers and foresters. More specifically, the project outlines the preconditions and opportunities to implement novel incentives which combine EU climate objectives, voluntary carbon markets and agriculture and forestry policies and would accelerate carbon sequestration in European agriculture and forestry. The project receives funding from the European Union LIFE programme.

Pollinator-Friendly Farms

The Nessling Foundation funded project aims to develop a pollinator-friendly farms concept and provide farmers with the information they need to improve conditions for pollinators on their farms.

CO-CARBON

Strategic funding for quantifying the carbon storage of green spaces.

ACCC –Flagship

The Academy of Finland funded ACCC researches the interaction between agricultural soil and the atmosphere.

PROJECTS HAVSMANUALEN 2 & 3

This assemblage of projects, financed by the Bergsrådinnan Sophie von Julin Foundation and the Programme to Enhance the Effectiveness of Water Protection, delves into the flow of carbon and nutrients between the land, the sea and the atmosphere by combining basic research with methodological development and environmental management.

BIOHILA

BIOHILA is funded by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry as part of the ’Catch the carbon’ -programme. The project will develop a method for producing accurate information on field biomass, which is linked to key decision-making and operational accounting applications used for agricultural climate solutions.

DEEP-SOM project

The DEEP-SOM project, funded by the Academy of Finland and coordinated by the University of Helsinki, investigates the formation and dynamics of soil organic matter (SOM) in the deep layers of soil.

SOCCHA project

The SOCCHA project, funded by the Academy of Finland, studies the carbon content and its depth distribution in soil by using Laser-induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS).

Research information for the food system

In this project science based information is produced and brought to farmers, companies and other actors in the food system.

CARBON PATH project

”From Carbon Paths to Carbon Highways”, funded by Maj and Tor Nessling Foundation, focused on educating the Carbon Action carbon farmers.

Pre-study for knowledge transfer and joint learning

This pre-study was initiated to learn about the conditions especially in malt crop farming in Finland, Lithuania, and Poland, and to establish a basis for further knowledge transfer and training activities, including possible full-scale projects as a follow-up.