Framework for on-farm monitoring of the impact of AE systems on soil quality and soil ecosystem services

The ARTEMIS project aimed to provide a better understanding of how specific agroecological systems affect soil's ability to mitigate and abate the consequences of climate change. The WP5 – Framework for AE (lighthouse) farm network on soil quality and ecosystem services – aimed to develop and test, on a network of farms, a framework for on-farm monitoring of the impact of diverse AE systems on soil quality and soil related ecosystem services (ESS). The objective of this report (D5.1) is to provide a monitoring plan with a set of indicators and tools to be used for on-farm monitoring of soil quality and soil-related ESS in diverse AE farms. This protocol and its indicators, parameters, and methods were revised and updated according to the feedback from the land users and results obtained during its use in the field.