WORK PACKAGE 1
Coordination and management
(2) To assure the correct progress of the project, facilitating communication between partners and EU commission and associated organisms.
(3) To supervise data management in collaboration with EU SOIL OBSERVATORY AND the European Soil Data Centre (ESDAC) (Joint Research Centre)
(4) To organize the consortium meetings and follow-up EU meetings.
(5) To supervise the technical risk management.
(6) To assist to all partners in the mitigation and management of all risks and drawbacks that may appear during the development of the project.
(7) Management of the research and innovation of the project activity.
WORK PACKAGE 2
Soil Pollution in Mediterranean olive groves
(2) A life cycle assessment (LCA) will be carried out to assess the environmental situation of the decontamination treatment applied to Soil O-live, evaluating among other impact categories, the carbon and water footprint, freshwater ecotoxicity, agricultural land occupation and human toxicity. This WP will also propose
(3) the pre-screening of chemical and electrochemical restoration strategies;
(4) the design and construction of a portable system for the onsite electrochemical generation of green oxidant s and the evaluation of the best treatment strategies in pilot olive groves selected for elevated soil pollution by pesticides;
(5) investigate the extent of microplastic presence in olive grove soils and
(6) their impact on soil functionality for the three types of mode of cultivation considered. Other important goals within this WP are
(7) the evaluation of the presence of antibiotics and other veterinarian residues in soil samples from olive grove soils that may constitute a risk for human health as a factor that may promote antibiotic resistance and by using metagenomic in olive grove soils,
(8) we will identify Antibiotic Resistance Genes (ARG) in the soil microbiome;
(9) to assess pre-operational and post-operational levels of nitrification and carbon stock accumulated in soils from olive groves with different land management.
WORK PACKAGE 3
Soil erosion and land degradation
(2) Test and implement the new methodological framework in a set of selected pilot testing sites of the Soil O-live project under different climatic and land management conditions.
(3) Develop and deploy a pan-mediterranean modelling-based assessment coupled to remote mapping and ground-based observations validation, to spatial-temporally define the European olive groves exposed to degradation processes.
(4) Extrapolate the modelling into the future and develop a machine-learning approach to forecast future soil and land degradation scenarios under land use and climate change.
WORK PACKAGE 4
Microbiome of olive groves
(2) to understand the impact of land management and pollution on the symbiotic interaction between mycorrhizae in olive trees and consequences for tree health and groundcovers;
(3) conduct advances practices of microbe restoration in selected olive groves and
(4) will analyze functionality of diversity of bacteria and fungi communities and services, such as soil structure, litter decomposition, organic carbon storage and nutrients cycling in selected restored olive groves.
WORK PACKAGE 5
Soil Biodiversity
(1) free-living and
(2) plant-parasitic nematodes
(3) ants,
(4) seed bank composition and groundcovers in olive groves with different management. We especially will focus on functional diversity of these groups for key soil functions as soil structuration, pathogen control, and nutrient cycling in restored olive groves.
(6) we will analyze the genetic diversity within species in key groups plants to evaluate impact of land management and soil pesticide residues on nucleotide diversity.
(7) An estimation of impact of land management on genetic variation on ecologically important traits on selected species of the natural groundcover is also planned. Finally,
(8) we will determine ploidy levels of plants growing in olive orchards, aiming to unravel ploidy levels of the groundcovers in olive groves with different agronomic management in order to investigate the impact of pesticides on whole genome duplication events in plants. m remote mapping and modelling land use effects on soil health as well as calibration and validation with selected tracers of sediment transport and indicators of soil degradation
2.- Test and implement the new methodological framework in a set of selected pilot testing sites of the Soil O-live project under different climatic and land management conditions.
(3) Develop and deploy a pan-mediterranean modelling-based assessment coupled to remote mapping and ground-based observations validation, to spatial-temporally define the European olive groves exposed to degradation processes.
(4) Extrapolate the modelling into the future and develop a machine-learning approach to forecast future soil and land degradation scenarios under land use and climate change.
WORK PACKAGE 6
Ecosystem services
(2) To survey the abundance and incidence of two olive tree pests, olive moth and olive fly in olive groves differing in management across the region
(3) to develop a digital twin corresponding to three types of olive groves in order to support the integration of multi-source soil and ecosystem data.
(4) To screen the physiology status of the olive trees at each agronomic situation during olive oil production in fruits (September). For that, we Will measure pre-operational and post-operational isotopic signatures 12C/13C for water use efficiency and estimation of C/N ratio and phosphorus.
(5) Evaluate the presence of pesticide residues in olive oil from olive groves subjected to restoration measurements.
(6) Evaluate the olive oil quality from the different management scenarios and study the impact of restoration on the overall quality of the product.
WORK PACKAGE 7
Outreach, dissemination and communications
(1) To ensure that geospatial data created during the diagnostic and effectiveness stages are open, well-documented, interoperable, and geo-linkable;
(2) To create technical guidelines and tools for data interoperability assurance and replicability;
(3) To provide initial information for other WPs to ensure compatibility and interoperability with existing market standards;
(4) To use the standardization system to disseminate project results;
(5) To contribute to the development of new standards that facilitate market acceptance of the project results;
(6) To communicate the main project activities and results to increase the number of farmers who carry out sustainability and quality practices in their olive groves;
(7) To analyze farmer behavior towards sustainable agronomic practices that improve soil health in olive grove cultivation, in order to determine the origin of farmer resistance to change;
(8) To analyze gender roles in land management, soil health, and olive quality;
(9) To propose effective policies for future promotion of a change in growing mode in olive groves.
