AgriFootprint is a BIOINVEST-AGRO innovative pilot project

AgriFootprint is a BIOINVEST-AGRO innovative pilot project, namely: a cloud-based model for the carbon footprint assessment in crop production and agro-food added value chains that contributes to the development of adaptive to climate change technologies for growing crop products, greening of technological processes of food production, improving product quality. The service meets demand among crop producers and create a new niche of eco-economic services.

The idea of AgriFootprint project in the modern form of digital services for agricultural producers was formed in 2020. The prerequisite for the project creation was 20 years of experience in the use of biological products in cultivation of agricultural crops, as well as the development of a joint implementation project (JI UNFCC) on the assessment of sequestration for greenhouse gasses in the cultivation of grain crops, which passed international determination and is posted on the UN website. The core of the service is an integrated mathematical model that allows forecasting the state of the "Plant" + "Soil" + "Air" system from the point of view of environmental friendliness production process, soil fertility and plant life cycle dynamics. The model demonstrates a multidimensional reflection of the current technological process state of growing crops and possible scenarios for its improvement, as well as allows you to predict changes in this state, short and medium term. The input data for this model are information on natural and climatic conditions of the environment, soil conditions, plants - obtained using distributed information and measurement systems in the fields of customers' farms. Additionally, the modeling uses information about the applied technological operations, crop rotation system, agrochemical and biological agents, taking into account the production experience by farmers themselves.

This pilot project was initiated by the NOSC-UA DIH and was supported by EOSC DIH, EOSC Service Providers are: EGI ACE + OpenAire Nexus. The result of the pilot project implementation is the digital service that has been developed, tested and built as a tool for making agro-technological, organizational and management decisions towards sustainable carbon cycles and carbon farming.

This work was co-funded by the EOSC Future project under the European Union Horizon Programme call INFRAEOSC-03-2020 - Project ID 101017536