Science-Based Pathways
Better Farming Practices
Healthier Soils
SoilPATH brings together scientific knowledge, long-term field evidence, and stakeholder experience to better understand how arable farming practices, individually and in combination, affect soil health and farm performance. By exploring what works, where, and under which conditions, the project will turn this evidence into practical solutions for farming and policymaking.
Together for Healthy Soils
SoilPATH brings together scientific knowledge, long-term field evidence, and stakeholder experience to better understand how arable farming practices, individually and in combination, affect soil health and farm performance. By exploring what works, where, and under which conditions, the project will turn this evidence into practical solutions for farming and policymaking.
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SoilPATH in Numbers
Farming Practices We Study
The project organises arable farming practices into three main groups:
Rotation & Ground Cover
Fertilisation & Organic Matter
Tillage
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INDIVIDUAL PRACTICES
PRACTICE COMBINATIONS
& trade-offs
Our Vision
To provide European farmers, advisors, researchers, and policymakers with practical knowledge and ready-to-use tools for choosing farming practices that restore, maintain, and improve soil health.
SoilPATH will combine long-term data with targeted measurements from:
- 24 pluriannual field trials
- 8 European countries
- 4 pedoclimatic zones
- 3 farming systems: conventional, organic, and agroecological
- 3 main farming-practice groups
Outputs
SoilPATH will transform research and stakeholder knowledge into evidence, assessment methods, maps, and practical resources. The project’s main outputs will cover five key areas:
- European multi-actor network
- Soil Health Knowledge Base
- Methods combining scientific and stakeholder knowledge
- Scientific reviews and analyses
- Harmonised experimental protocols
- Evidence on individual and combined farming practices
- 24+ soil health datasets
- Harmonised assessment and recommendation model
- Soil health and opportunity maps
- Practical factsheets and interactive decision trees
- Technical and economic recommendations
- Field Actor Toolbox
- Soil Health Assessment and Improvement Advisory System (SHAI)
- Policy landscape and gap analysis
- 13+ policy briefs
- Policymakers Toolbox
- Digital Decision Support Module (DSM)
SoilPATHways
SoilPATHways will be an online hub integrated into the SoilPATH website, providing a central point of access to the project’s practical knowledge, tools, and resources.
Its content will be organised around two main toolboxes:
Field Actors Toolbox
Policymakers Toolbox
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