NASCAR
Nordic Agroforestry at Scale: Creating a Roadmap for sustainability in Climate, Agriculture, and economic Resources
PROJECT INFO:
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DURATION: 2026-2029 |
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FUNDING: The Mission Partnership |
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CHALLENGE
Limited knowledge of climate and biodiversity impacts in livestock agroforestry systems
TECHNOLOGY
Integrated monitoring and modelling of carbon fluxes, biodiversity and animal welfare
POTENTIAL
Supports climate-smart livestock production and sustainable land-use planning
Goal
- Measure greenhouse gas emissions and carbon sequestration in Nordic livestock agroforestry
- Quantify biodiversity, animal welfare, soil health, and microclimate impacts
- Evaluate environmental and economic outcomes under carbon tax scenarios
- Develop scalable monitoring and modelling tools to inform climate, land-use, and agricultural policy
Plan
- Deploy an eddy covariance tower, soil and microclimate sensors, insect monitors, and livestock collars at a Danish agroforestry site
- Monitor CO₂, CH₄, water and energy fluxes, biodiversity, animal welfare, soil health, and productivity over three years
- Combine field and satellite data with machine learning to map carbon fluxes in agroforestry systems
- Compare conventional, grazing, and agroforestry livestock systems through environmental and economic analyses
- Engage farmers, advisors, and consumers through surveys, focus groups, field days, and site visits
Expected results
- Datasets on greenhouse gas emissions, carbon sequestration, biodiversity, welfare, and microclimate
- Validated carbon-flux models and maps for agricultural greenhouse gas assessment
- Quantified biodiversity, soil-health, and welfare benefits of agroforestry
- Recommendations for climate-smart livestock production and land-use planning
- Economic scenarios for agroforestry under carbon taxation
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