On Thursday March 18 from 15:00 – 17:30 h the Regenerative Farming project organizes an online event on Carbon Farming to address this question. An event in which pioneers, practitioners and scientists working on carbon farming share their knowledge and experience, listen to solutions of Dutch and international parties and to jointly work on advancing this topic in shared projects, pilots and policy.

As the global climate crisis asks for innovative and scalable solutions, carbon farming is gaining ground. It is a practice that, if done well, increases and secures soil organic carbon content by sequestering carbon form the air and/or preventing emission from the ground. At the same time, it improves soil quality by benefitting ecosystem services such as water buffering, healthy production and biodiversity. Throughout the Netherlands, as well as the world, farmers are increasingly embracing this practice. In order for this movement to gain and continue momentum towards scalable impact, an essential question emerges: How to create a system to ensure that farmers are paid for their carbon farming practices, with enough benefits and incentives?

On Thursday March 18 from 15:00 – 17:30 h the Regenerative Farming project organizes an online event on Carbon Farming to address this question. An event in which pioneers, practitioners and scientists working on carbon farming share their knowledge and experience, listen to solutions of Dutch and international parties and to jointly work on advancing this topic in shared projects, pilots and policy.

Many stakeholders face similar questions, that we will address in this event, such as:

• What is the potential of carbon farming in a country like the Netherlands? How do we create a market? How do current initiatives relate to each other and to policy on local, national and international level?
• How do we build a system in the Netherlands and abroad that ensures a good revenue model for farmers to increase and secure soil organic carbon content? What are good examples of such a system in practice?
• How to set up and improve valid and efficient carbon accounting mechanisms for carbon credits? What are new developments to measure changes in soil organic carbon accurately and combine these with models? 
• How to combine revenue models for various ecosystem services (CO2, water buffering, biodiversity)?
• What system in peat meadow landscapes would help farmers? How to model carbon and other ecosystem services in peat meadows?

If you would like to attend the event, please contact Marjolijn de Boer via marjolijn.deboer@hetgroenebrein.nl.