Projects

Earthworm has been supporting Nestlé France since 2020 on the deployment of regenerative agriculture in partnership with its suppliers in France, in line with the group’s climate ambitions (zero net emissions in 2050). For the first year, the project consists of initiating the transition to regenerative farming practices with 5 major suppliers.

Following a diagnosis of the cooperatives or businesses, training is organised to increase the skills of field technicians and farmers. Field measurement campaigns at around fifty farmers per supplier make it possible to establish a reference for soil quality, carbon stock, economic health, the GHG balance sheet of farms, etc.

Regenerative farming practices will be deployed in the following years to the farmers of committed suppliers and other suppliers.

Purina has been accompanied by Living Soils since 2020 in Nestlé’s petfood supply chain for a transition towards more sustainable agriculture. Cereals under the project are primarily directed to Purina products which prompted designing support for two producer groups who supply Purina from the NORIAP cooperative.

Herta, Purina and the Cirhyo cooperative joined forces with Living Soils to provide training to a group of livestock breeders on practices supporting transition of their crop production to regenerative agriculture. This constitutes a critical phase of engagement to scaling up regenerative agriculture.

Mc Cain intends to consistently roll out sustainable agricultural practices among 900 farmers supplying their production plants in the Hauts-de-France region. They decided to partner with the Living Soils initiative to ensure that this transformation does not only apply to potato production but also extends to the all crops grown on the farms and that it is driven in collaboration with other companies in the region.

McDonald’s France donne une nouvelle impulsion à sa stratégie agroécologique initiée en 2010 à travers le projet pilote « Agriculture régénératrice et agroforesterie dans la filière blés », en partenariat avec Earthworm.

Deux premières coopératives sont engagées : Oxyane, située dans le bassin lyonnais, et Val-France, située en Île-de-France et dans les Hauts-de-
France. Au sein de ces deux groupements, le projet, destiné à développer les puits de carbone naturels au sein d’exploitations volontaires, impliquera
60 agriculteurs pour une durée minimale de trois ans.

Les objectifs de ce projet pilote sont multiples. Il s’agit d’abord d’accompagner les agriculteurs, les coopératives et les fournisseurs dans la transformation de leurs pratiques. Mais aussi de mesurer les impacts de ces changements notamment en termes de réduction et de séquestration de carbone et d’étudier les externalités positives de ces projets sur les agriculteurs et la biodiversité. Enfin, il s’agit d’appréhender les freins et leviers socio-technico-économiques relatifs à ces pratiques.

We have been working in a multi-partner approach with Soufflet Agriculture, Céréalia and Nestlé in the Grand Est region since 2019. The work focuses on soil quality and carbon stock  assessment and aims to develop valuation models for ecosystem services generated by the farmers such as healthy soils and climate change mitigation by carbon storage in soils.

Chez Bonduelle le programme Sols Vivants se décline en 2022 à travers la mise en place d’un collège animé par la Fondation Earthworm et composé des représentants de chaque partie prenante de la production (Producteurs, Chefs de plaine, Encadrants techniques et/ou d’approvisionnement).

Il a pour objectif de :

• Former les membres du Collège sur les leviers agronomiques permettant d’améliorer la fertilité des sols et stocker du carbone dans les sols
• Réaliser un état des lieux de la fertilité des sols de la « ferme Bonduelle »
• Faciliter une réflexion collégiale sur la suite à donner au sein de Bonduelle pour emmener à l’échelle les producteurs vers une amélioration de la fertilité de leurs sols et des systèmes stockeurs de carbone.

We are part of the European Innovation Project – Soil Fertility in Santerre. The objectives of the project are :

• • Reestablish and preserve soil fertility in crop production systems that are typical in Santerre;

• Support local farmerinitiatives

Living Soils has been working with Lidl and 3 of its main suppliers since 2019. The collaboration focuses on the  development of regenerative agriculture and its recognition in the chain’s stores directly. 10 producers participated in the project in 2020.

Nestlé has been working with Living Soils Since 2018 to develop regenerative agriculture practices in a first pilot project in the Santerre region with the collaboration of potato producers for the Mousline brand. Together with farmers, Living Soils trials innovative practices and approaches to measure their impact on soils and agricultural ecosystems.

This project aims to refine a soil carbon sequestration quantification method and to attribute a value per tonne of carbon sequestered. The objective is to subsequently create a system to remunerate farmers for their ecosystem services.
The project takes place in the Hauts-de-France region, in partnership with companies, a technical centre and farmers.