LIFE AGRESTIC aims at fostering the adoption by EU farmers of innovative and efficient cropping systems with a high climate-change mitigation potential, and spreading innovative views and tools for climate ready and resource efficient agriculture.

LIFE AGRESTIC has the following specific objectives:
- Reduce agricultural GHG emissions and increase soil carbon sequestration by designing and implementing on three demonstration sites N- and C-Efficient Cropping Systems (ECSs) with higher potential of carbon storage and nitrogen efficiency and lower GHG emission rates compared to Conventional Cropping Systems (CCSs).
- Develop, test and implement an innovative web-based DSS for supporting farmers in a resource-efficient management of ECSs, aiming at reducing GHG emissions and production costs, while maintaining or increasing yield, product quality and safety, and farmer’s economic return.
- Develop and use a prototype for automated and continuous monitoring of soil GHG fluxes, in order to: i) measure the potential of ECSs in reducing soil emissions compared with CCSs; ii) calibrate and validate a model for estimation of soil GHG emissions, and implement the model into the DSS.
- Valorise GHG emissions and carbon storage mitigation potential of ECSs through market based and/or policy-based measures, and support national and local policies through the analyses of ECS-based simulation scenarios and providing dataset for more accurate LCA analyses.
- Involve national and EU stakeholders to: i) ensure their real needs are met and proposed innovation is feasible and effective; iii) increase the innovation acceptance rate and the future exploitation of the project results; iv) create local agreements and regional collaborations about soil and ecosystem services; and, finally, v) ensure replicability and transferability across EU.