Klimapraxis is a non-profit organisation that aims to promote a constructive, sustainable agriculture and thus to put climate protection into practice.
Such regenerative agriculture includes a system of cultivation methods and principles. As a result, humus can be built up, soil fertility improved and carbon sequestered in the soil. In this way, regenerative agriculture contributes to climate protection.
Soils can store more water and are therefore better protected against drought and erosion by wind or heavy rain. Biodiversity is increasing. Landscape design can improve local water cycles. Overall, the resilience of the food and agriculture system is increasing.
In order to achieve these goals, Climate Practice offers the following services: project development, project and cooperation management as well as communication and accompanying research.
The Agroforestry Mixed Technological Network is a network of around sixty research, development, training and recently production structures, which aims to create lasting links between the partners of the network for the development of agroforestry. Mixed technology networks (RMT) are scientific and technical partnership mechanisms set up and supported by the Ministry of Agriculture under the 2006 agricultural orientation law. Designed to be places of exchange and synergy skills, RMT bring together actors in research, training and development around priority themes for the development of the agricultural and agro-food sectors, to carry out collaborative work and foster innovation. The general objective of the "Agroforestry" Mixed Technological Network is to pool the skills, expertise and other resources of the various partners for the development of agroforestry, in order to develop technical and methodological tools for the establishment and management of agroforestry plots. For this new period 2021-2024, the RMT work program is more specifically focused on the performance of agroforestry systems at different scales, the lack of agronomic and economic references in particular being one of the major obstacles to the development of agroforestry on territories.
This network, accredited for the 2020-2024 period, is the result of the previous Joint Technological Network (RMT) called SPYCE (Mixed Crop-Livestock Systems).
Since 2014, the Joint Technological Network on Mixed Crop Livestock Systems (RMT SPyCE) has been bringing together research, training and development stakeholders from various backgrounds to build a shared vision of mixed farming. This RMT aims to bring together previously scattered projects and actions, to give them a global coherence and produce generic tools for development and agricultural education, as well as a corpus of solid and operational methods and objectified knowledge to characterize and evaluate these systems.
This new RMT SPICEE propose to address the major challenge of helping to cope with the depletion of non-renewable resources in a context of climate change and increasing economic uncertainties. The scales addressed are those of : the territory, where the closing of biogeochemical cycles and the resulting resource savings are part of the notion of circular economy applied to animal and plant sectors, on the farm, where combining crops and livestock is relevant to meet agro-ecological objectives, groups of farms that cooperate and exchange animal and plant products, where the few results available are ambivalent in terms of environmental performance and where further analysis is needed. The objectives of the RMT SPICEE are to : To characterize the "metabolism" - the flows and the actors - of the animal and plant sectors and their interactions in a circular economy perspective; Evaluate the properties and performance of these systems, according to the level of crop-livestock integration and the diversity of ruminant/monogastric production, in order to objectivize the conditions for expressing their benefits; To co-design new, more virtuous, multi-performing systems, based on knowledge of the obstacles and levers to their operation; Produce individual and collective support tools. The work of the SPICEE network is based on three main WP: Characterize and evaluate the added value of the deployment of a circular economy between animal and plant sectors on a territorial scale Unlocking the innovation potential of crop-livestock interaction systems Supporting the agroecological transition of crop-livestock systems: advice, training, territorial foresight, public policies, dissemination of knowledge.
Hof Lebensberg is a regenerative Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) founded in 2020. It combines successfully regenerative cultivation systems with the aim of creating a productive agricultural ecosystem. It also aims to do active climate protection, create living space, improve soil fertility, close water cycles, and at the same time produce an abundance of nutritious food.
The farm is an inspiring and practical business model that shows that agriculture, climate protection, and nature conservation can go hand in hand. By combining different regenerative cultivation systems, synergies and an operating cycle as close as possible are created. The goal is a balanced agricultural ecosystem that becomes more resilient and diverse every year, binds CO2 in the soil, and thereby builds up valuable humus soil, and at the same time delivers stable yields over the long term.
Hof Lebensberg products (eggs from free-range chickens, chicken broiler meat, vegetables edible flowers, legumes, herbs, etc.) are available within a radius of 100 km as the crow flies around the farm. The products are sold in weekly markets or in pick-up points and directly on the farm. The farm is part of a community that wants to spread the regenerative agriculture approach through cultural cooperation.
Helle Bauer is a market gardening farm in North Rhine-Westphalia that uses agroforestry and permaculture methods for sustainably intensifying production. It supplies 90 Community-Supported-Agriculture (CSA) boxes of vegetables and fruits weekly – plums, cherries, apples, peaches, quinces & more. The farm contributes to better climate conditions by applying the rotational grazing method for their 250 hens over the year in the pasture ensuring the chicken's wellbeing. They have implemented different small agroforestry plots. The trees work the soil with their roots and provide shadows to protect sensible horticulture crops.
