Living labs are increasingly regarded to be a successful instrument for co-creation of knowledge and capacity building around soil carbon sequestration, connecting sciences and practitioners. During the session, different networks and projects from across the temperate climate zone will present their approaches to project design and implementation of living labs and reflect on opportunities and challenges. This sessions aims to identify open questions with regards to funding limits, uncertainty of results and conflicting objectives in project design and implementation, but will also allow to present some first results on farm-scale greenhouse gas balancing from the German Federal Humus Programme.

Livestream

The Model and Demonstration Project (MuD) Funding Instrument in Agriculture – Long-Standing Experience from Germany
Linda Homann
Head of Unit 335, Federal Office for Agriculture and Food (BLE), Germany

Reports on Experiences from the "HumusKlimaNetz" and "HumusAllianz" Model and Demonstration Initiatives in Germany
Anna Sauer
Researcher, Julius Kühn-Institute (JKI), Germany

Dr. Rolf Sommer
Project Manager, Bund Ökologische Lebensmittelwirtschaft e.V. (BÖLW), Germany

LILAS4SOILS Living Labs: Lessons Learned from Stakeholders Engagement
Sonia Pietosi
Project Specialist, European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) Food

From Science to Practice: Certification of Sustainable Soil Management in the Argentinean Pampas
Prof. Dr. Elke Noellemeyer
Researcher, Universidad Nacional de La Pampa, Argentina

Helping Farmers to Reduce Their Emissions Using the Whole-Farm Model Holos – An Experiential Narrative from the Canadian Living Labs
Dr. Roland Kröbel
Researcher, Department of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Canada