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Prof Rachel Creamer Project Coordinator Prof Rogier Schulte Project manager Dr Francesca Bampa Project administrator This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 635201.

How do we increase our D EMANDS ON OUR LAND productivity? I want to grow my milk output by 50% D EMANDS ON OUR LAND website www.landmark2020.eu email info.landmark@wur.nl twitter @Landmark2020

D EMANDS ON OUR LAND We need better water regulation by our land… website www.landmark2020.eu email info.landmark@wur.nl twitter @Landmark2020

D EMANDS ON OUR LAND D EMANDS ON OUR LAND We need to sequester We need to protect our carbon carbon resources website www.landmark2020.eu email info.landmark@wur.nl twitter @Landmark2020

D EMANDS ON OUR LAND We need to find a home for our waste… website www.landmark2020.eu email info.landmark@wur.nl twitter @Landmark2020

D EMANDS ON OUR LAND Soil biodiversity is the Protect the home of driver of many biodiversity processes in soils Lijbert Brussaard

W HAT CAN OUR LAND SUPPLY ? Functions in EU Thematic Strategy: All soils / land perform all - Primary productivity: food, fibre, fuel functions… - Water regulation & purification …but different parts of - Carbon regulation & sequestration the land(scape) are - Habitat for functional & intrinsic biodiversity better at delivering - Nutrient Cycling different functions - (Archeological archive) - (Building platform) website www.landmark2020.eu email info.landmark@wur.nl twitter @Landmark2020

W HAT CAN OUR LAND SUPPLY ? website www.landmark2020.eu email info.landmark@wur.nl twitter @Landmark2020

L ANDMARK L AND MANAGEMENT : ASSESSMENT , RESEARCH , KNOWLEDGE BASE website www.landmark2020.eu email info.landmark@wur.nl twitter @Landmark2020

L ANDMARK OBJECTIVE Overall objective: to quantify the supply of soil functions across the EU as determined by soil properties, land use and soil management practices. website www.landmark2020.eu email info.landmark@wur.nl twitter @Landmark2020

S PECIFIC O BJECTIVES 1. Farm scale: Develop an agricultural Decision Support Tool (DST) for soil management 2. Country scale: Design a monitoring scheme for Soil Functions that is applicable at regional scale, for a range of soil types, land uses and pedo-climatic zones; 3. EU scale : Develop a policy framework for ‘Functional Land Management’ at European scale that aims to optimise the sustainable use of Europe’s soil resource website www.landmark2020.eu email info.landmark@wur.nl twitter @Landmark2020