Inspirational ideas: Sustainable development in arable farming with Skylark
Skylark is based on the belief that in order to achieve sustainability, the whole crop rotation, in fact the whole farm management, should be taken into consideration.
The foundation has 400 participating farmers and 60 knowledge and supply chain partners all working towards a more sustainable arable agriculture in the Netherlands. The area covered by Skylark farmers cover more than 45 000ha which equals almost 9% of arable land in the Netherlands. The participants share knowledge based on 10 sustainability indicators, and can use the knowledge to improve their farm management.
Organization: Eip Agri
Year: 2017
Country/ies: European Union
Geographical coverage: European Union (European Union)
Type: Blog article
Full text available at: https://ec.europa.eu/eip/agriculture/en/news/inspirational-ideas-sustainable-development-arable-farming-skylark
Content language: English