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Saara KankaanrintaChair of the Board,
BSAG Foundation & Carbon Action platform
Owner, Qvidja Estate
Co-Founder, Soilfood Ltd & Q Power Ltd
CAP Strategic Plans –priority considerations
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Contact details
Saara Kankaanrinta • BSAG Foundation/Co-Founder, Chair [email protected]
• Soilfood Ltd/Co-Founder, Board Member [email protected]
• Q Power Ltd/Co-Founder, Board Member
• Sulapac Ltd/Board Member
• Carbon Action platform/Founder
• Chair Qvidja Manor/Farm owner [email protected]
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Eutrophication
Climate change
Loss of Biodiversity
Where arewe now?
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Yellow Sea
Lake Erie The Baltic SeaPhoto: Seppo Knuuttila
Bay of Mexico
Eutrophication
> 50% of surfacewaters not in good
status (EU WFD)
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Erosion
Fertile soil depleted in 60 years (FAO)
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Diversity is thecorner stoneof all life
Loss of biodiversity
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Loss of biodiversity
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”in 30 yearsamount of insects hasdeclined
80%
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Monoculture = feedPiece of rain forest converts into meat
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It’s not the cow, it’s how!
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The Climate crisis
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Main climate change impact on the agriculture in Europe
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DEGENERATIVE SUSTAINABLE REGENERATIVE
Monocultures
Cash crop fed livestock
Driven by external inputs (mineral
fertilizers, herbicides, pesticides,
insecticides, fossil fuel)
Segregated production systems
Crop rotation & diversity
Grazing livestock
Soil fertility & green cover
Nature-based processes and measures
Interconnected production systems
PARADIGM SHIFT
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Steering instrument
Laura Höijer / BSAG 15
CAP
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How to reach the goals?
EDUCATION AND AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION
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THESE ALL WOULD FIT TO THE ECOSCHEMES
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CAP Strategic Plans
• Commission proposal setsright direction
• Connected to and delivering for nationalenvironment and climateobjectives policies
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• Include the education and agricultural extension
• Higher ambition and moreprecision in conditionality (re i.a. crop rotation, biodiversity, peatland)
• Recognition of perennialgrasses, agroforestry in definitions and indicators
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• EAFRD Compensation schemes to focus on multi-benefit, holistic and cooperative measures, landmanagement, bridging transition to organic production and moreresilient, less input-dependantagriculture
• Mandatory (for MS) ecoschemes withfunding from Pillar I, and including– Incentive/reward payments for climate
action
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Same soil 2016 ja 2018, Qvidja
Subsidies must incentivize adopting regenerative practices.
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4/1000
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Most valuable workersActive carbon flux via photosynthesis
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25%Of all the world’s biodiversity
In the soil
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FARMERS
regenerative
practices
BUSINESS
POLICY
Incentives
Climate regulation
SCIENCE
Role of microbes
verification
CAP
Carbon credits
Result-basedsubsidieswould fit!ALL
Main research institutes of Finland and main universities
Large global network
Media
115committed farmers (FIN)
(intensive education for regerativemethods)
+Advisors, Farmers unions
SYSTEM CHANGE ON-GOING IN FINLAND: Carbon Action PlatformSoil Carbon Sequestration, biodiversity, Baltic Sea
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MOWINGHEAT
PERIODMOWING MOWING
DA
ILY
CO
2 F
LUX
ES (
g/m
2)
Development of verification of soil carbon storage
SOIL AND PLANT RESPIRATION
NET EXCHANGE
PHOTOSYNTHESIS
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Implementation on farms:farmer-led science and action
• Over 100 different Carbon Farms around Finland
• Training, peer-to-peer learning, testing and piloting in co-operation with researchers
• 3 hectare test area where each carbon farmer tests different measures of C sequestration. Soil samples now and after 5 years
• Testing different measures in practice, give feedback and development tips to researchers
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Maximize plant
growth
Maximize microbe food
Maximize protection
• Minimal tillage and disturbance• Minimal pesticide use• Stable aggregates and good structure
• Make sure soils smell good
• Develope large root systems
• Give wrecked soils a kickstart(organic soilamendmends)
• Continuous plant cover
• Balanced plantnutrition
• Reduce inorganicinputs to activatemicrobes
• High leaf area
Checklist to increase soil organic carbon
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Pilot farmers: future seems bright! (summer 2019):
”My goal is to have the soil in really good condition and
practise farming which maintains and improves soil
fertility. This brings positive economy also. Also small
farms can manage well if they do it right.
Best professional education of my life. ”
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Soil carbonsequestration
Biodiversity
More carbon in the soil =
better profitability by
• less expensive external inputs• better crops• longer grazing season etc
In the future CAP also: publicgoods, result-based subsidies?
(Market value is additional)
Nutrientretention
Focus on multi-benefit, holistic aims – win win win
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“The one who grasps principles
can successfully select hisown methods.
The one who tries methods,
ignoring principles,
is sure to have trouble.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson