The CEN Workshop on 'Methodology to quantify the global agricultural crop footprint including soil impacts' is a result of the Spanish Retos-Colaboración 2017 project FERTILIGENCIA (Innovative fertilizers to reduce the environmental impact of agriculture and development of a standard for assessing the sustainability of agroecosystems), whose general objective is to develop intelligent fertilizers using the understanding of the soil-microbiome-plant system, setting the first steps for an agriculture new revolution, able to satisfy the future food demand, minimizing the environmental impacts and loss of fertile soil.
The CEN Workshop has just published the CWA 17898:2022 “Methodology to quantify the global agricultural crop footprint including soil impacts” which specifies a methodology for identifying, characterizing, and implementing a single indicator to assess the quality and degradation of agricultural soils and the overall impact of the agriculture processes. An innovative exergy methodology to evaluate biological, physical and chemical attributes of a fertile soil has been developed; a simple but robust methodology that allows any actor to use it and understand their farming system.
