CARBON FARMING MED PROJECT

The Carbon Farming Med project is designed to support Mediterranean countries in attaining the EU’s 2035 climate mitigation objectives—climate neutrality goals within agriculture. 

This initiative promotes a resilient and sustainable agricultural production system by establishing the first cross-border platform in the Mediterranean region for the buying and selling of carbon credits.

This platform is integral to promoting carbon farming as a viable green business model in the region, facilitating the market adoption of sustainable agricultural practices, and supporting the EU’s climate neutrality goals by enhancing carbon removals.

Project duration

• 1 January 2024 – 30 September 2026
•  33 months

Budget information

• Total budget: €2,789,472.36 
• Interreg funds: €2,231,577.88

Link to the project’s website: https://carbonfarmingmed.interreg-euro-med.eu/

The Carbon Farming Med project is dedicated to aiding Mediterranean countries in meeting the EU’s 2035 climate mitigation objectives, specifically targeting climate neutrality in agriculture. This initiative promotes a resilient and sustainable agricultural production system by enabling farmers to adopt carbon farming as a green business model, generating additional revenue, optimising regenerative agricultural and agroforestry practices, and utilising the carbon credits market.

Key Objectives of the Project:

• Development of a Carbon Farming Framework: Tailoring strategies to regional conditions to integrate the best regenerative practices. A comprehensive monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) system ensures profitability and sustainability.
• Establishment of a Mediterranean Carbon Credits Market: Initiating the first regional market for trading carbon credits, providing a structured platform for reliable transactions.
• Creation of a Technological Platform: Developing an IT platform to support the verification processes for carbon credits, facilitating market entry for farmers and transactions between buyers and sellers.
• Implementation of Best Practices: Adapting and promoting regenerative agricultural techniques to increase soil organic carbon, making carbon farming a viable business for farmers.

These efforts aim to transform agricultural practices, enhancing carbon sequestration and supporting climate goals in the Mediterranean region.

The primary output of the Carbon Farming Med project is the creation of the first cross-border platform in the Mediterranean to support the buying and selling of carbon credits. This platform is essential for promoting carbon farming as a viable green business model, facilitating the adoption of sustainable agricultural practices, and supporting the EU’s climate neutrality goals by enhancing carbon removals.

Key partners include institutions from Spain (Balmes University Foundation, UVIC-UCC; Azolla Projects), Italy (Council for Agricultural Research and Economics, CREA), Greece (TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE, TUC), France (Agrofood Innovation and Technology transfer center Sud, CRITT IAA Sud; Euroregion Pyrenees Mediterranean, EPM; European Agroforestry Federation, EURAF), Slovenia (Institute for Health and Environment, IHE), and Bosnia and Herzegovina (Center for Energy, Environment and Resources, CENER 21).

Coordination of the project is led by UVIC-UCC’s Beta Technological Center, ensuring thorough alignment and integration of all project activities.

Project duration: From 1 January 2024 to 30 September 2026

The Carbon Farming Med project is co-founded by the European Union.

AZOLLA PROJECTS’ ROLE IN CARBON FARMING MED

As part of the CARBON FARMING MED project, we have been actively contributing to the development and implementation of innovative carbon farming solutions across the Mediterranean region. Our work focuses on supporting regenerative agriculture, improving carbon monitoring systems, and facilitating the development of a Mediterranean carbon credits market.

Task 2.1 – Selection of Pilot Farms Implementing Regenerative Agricultural and Agroforestry Practices

This activity focused on identifying and selecting pilot farms across different Mediterranean regions to implement regenerative agricultural and agroforestry practices. The selected farms represent diverse climatic conditions, crop systems, and management approaches, allowing the project to test and evaluate sustainable farming practices that enhance soil carbon sequestration, biodiversity, and climate resilience.

Task 3.4 – Pilot Phase of the IT Platform

Within this task, we contributed to the pilot testing of the CARBON FARMING MED IT platform. The platform is designed to support farmers and stakeholders in the Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (MRV) process related to carbon farming activities. The pilot phase allowed us to validate functionalities, improve usability, and ensure that the platform effectively supports carbon credit generation and verification processes for Mediterranean agricultural systems.

Task 3.4 – Pilot Phase of the IT Platform

This activity aimed to promote collaboration and exchange between stakeholders involved in carbon farming and voluntary carbon markets across the Mediterranean region. The objective is to facilitate connections between carbon credit buyers and sellers, encourage knowledge sharing, and support the creation of a transparent and accessible Mediterranean marketplace for agricultural carbon credits.