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The project

The SIC.A.RI.B project aims to improve the biological and physical quality of Sicilian agricultural soils, through the implementation and adaptation of conservative or 'organic regenerative' farming techniques and technologies (intercropping, minimum tillage, grassing) to the organic farming systems of the Sicilian region, particularly on the most commonly present rotational arable crops and tree crops. The project is implemented by a partnership composed of five Sicilian farms, one private research organisation and two consulting companies.

To achieve its objectives, the project is divided into five actions:

Implementation of the organic regenerative agricultural model

Monitoring the impact on soil and agrobiodiversity of the management systems compared

Agroecological innovation in the territorial context and in relation to agricultural policy instruments

Dissemination and sharing of innovation

Coordination, monitoring and project management

To achieve its objectives, the project is divided into five actions:

Implementation of the organic regenerative agricultural model

Monitoring the impact on soil and agrobiodiversity of the management systems compared

Agroecological innovation in the territorial context and in relation to agricultural policy instruments

Dissemination and sharing of innovation

Coordination, monitoring and project management

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Project objectives

The general objective of the SIC.A.RI.B. project is to develop an efficient and economically sustainable agricultural production model in the Sicilian territorial context, which at the same time allows farms to protect and improve the physical and biological quality of cultivated soils, increase the levels of biodiversity in the reference ecosystem, and operate an active and positive action in the carbon sequestration process and in the mitigation of climate change.

In particular, the objectives are:

Improving
the biological fertility

Increasing
the production yields

Increasing
the biodiversity

Diversifying
production

Enhancing
the Living Labs

Evaluating
CAP ecosystems

Improving
the biological fertility

Increasing
the production yields

Increasing
the biodiversity

Diversifying
production

Enhancing
the Living Labs

Evaluating
CAP ecosystems

The partnership

The project is implemented by a partnership composed of five Sicilian farms, one private research organisation and two consulting companies.

Organic Farms

Research partners

Consultancy partners

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