Discover the Glossary, a comprehensive compilation of key terms and concepts related to sustainable soil management. Navigate through a curated collection of definitions to enhance your understanding of soil health, translated into the seven project languages.
Involves managing pastures with a variety of plant and animal species. Enhances soil health, provide varied nutrition for livestock, and improve ecosystem resilience
Involves processing animal waste through controlled aerobic decomposition. It reduces nutrient runoff, enhances soil fertility, and contributes to better soil structure and water retention.
Practice that involves planting specific crops during off-seasons or alongside main forage plants. It helps to protect the soil from erosion, improve soil fertility, and increase organic matter content.
Practice of allowing livestock to graze on cover crops that have been planted primarily to benefit the soil. It contributes to lessen the work of termination before sowing of maincrops.
Holistic planned grazing takes rotational grazing further considering various factors such as the growth rate of grasses, seasonal variations, and livestock nutritional needs.
Key places for demonstration of solutions, training, and communication that are exemplary in their performance of soil health improvement.
Collaborative initiatives to co-create knowledge and innovations between multiple partners that operate on several reallife sites at regional or sub-regional level, to cocreate, test, monitor and evaluate solutions to a common problem. A living lab consists of 10 – 20 individual sites or less depending on the specific context within which it operates.
High-density, short duration grazing method where many animals graze a small area intensely for a brief period.
Agricultural practice that involves minimal or no soil disturbance, that protects soil microorganisms and improve water infiltration and retention, crucial for maintaining healthy pastures.
Model based on the Quadruple Helix but broader and more comprehensive by additionally adding the helix (and perspective) of the ‘natural environments of society’. The Quintuple Helix includes academia, industry, civil society, policy and environment.
Type of agriculture conformed by techniques aimed at regenerating, stimulate, and maintain the fertility and biodiversity of soils to revert the effects of climate change.
Process that stresses the importance of integrating both crops and livestock to restore degraded soils using regenerative management practices (e.g., mob grazing, no-till, etc.)
Set of practices aimed at improving soil health and biodiversity, promoting ecosystem restoration.
Livestock management practice where animals are moved between different pasture areas, or paddocks, to allow forage plants in previously grazed areas to regrow.
Integrated land management system that combines trees, forage, and livestock on the same land. It creates a synergistic environment that promotes soil health, sustainability, and productivity.
