The Portuguese project which is creating pastureland "extraordinarily productive" (with video)
The Raven is one of the most amazing projects â€" and simple â€" developed from scratch in Portugal to combat climate change. The project, which began at the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), promotes the increase of organic matter in the soil, resulting in an increase in water retention and soil fertility and, in parallel, decreasing its susceptibility to erosion, mitigating the effects of drought and poor agricultural practices.These seeded pastures biodiversas are already used by about 1,000 Portuguese farmers, especially in the Centre and South of the country, instead of just sow a species â€" or leave the cattle in grazing-sow a mixture with a wide variety of plants."Are extraordinarily productive pastures â€" arrive to sow up 20 different types of plants. As the shamrocks, who have ability to go on the air for nitrogen and turn it into a fertilizer that lay on the ground, "explained to the green economy Tiago Domingos, a professor at the IST and responsible for Raven.On the other hand, this meadow is used to sequester carbon dioxide, one of the main responsible for the greenhouse effect and climate change. "Through photosynthesis, plants take carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and will turn it into biomass of soil," continues VÃtor Sundays.Farmers who accept the proposal from the Raven receive a payment through the Portuguese Carbon Fund (PCF), because they are helping the Country emitting less carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.Learn all about the pastures sown biodiversas in episode 146 of the green economy.Photo: Jsome1, under Creative Commons license
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