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Improve your soil
Increasing soil organic matter content improves the soil quality. Increased soil organic matter not only leads to ecosystem services, but also to improved product quality and yield. Increased soil organic matter can be accomplished through e.g., no or reduced tillage, using green manure and organic fertilizer as opposed to artificial fertilizer.
Get paid for your ecosystem service
Sustainable soil management leads to CO₂ sequestration, improved water storage, improved water quality and more biodiversity. These are ecosystem services that are of interest to everyone. These ecosystem services have value and can be traded on a voluntary market. Starting with CO₂, because this market already exists. This market operates stand alone and separate from the production and sale of food. Because unfortunately, common practice has demonstrated that additional farming production requirements rarely lead to increased product prices.

Hoe werkt het?

By applying no-tillages, growing and applying green manure and reducing the use of pesticides and fertilizers, the soil quality improves. This does not only generate eco-credits, but also generates better products. You can read here what measures you can take.

Door het invullen van de Cool Farm Tool (CFT) kun je berekenen met welke maatregelen hoeveel koolstof in de bodem wordt opgeslagen. Een link naar de CFT vind je hier.

aESTI checks the sequestered CO₂ and guarantees that 90% of the credits are paid to the farmer. Only 10% is to cover the costs of aESTI. You can read exactly how that works here.

These farmers are already participating

Bart de Lugt

We think it is important that farmers have a good income model. We have a lot in our hands, but little is being done with it. Sustainable farming can yield many benefits, both for us and for nature. That is where we would like to go as farmers and as citizens. These benefits are already there, but we don't do anything with it, so they become an interesting additional benefit. With aESTI we aim to create a nice, sellable service together. We participate because these are interesting developments that might benefit us and everyone else going forward.

Pieter van der Valk

Agriculture has an indispensably important role and position in a circular economy. Matter of fact, this is the place where the connection takes place to turn residual streams into new natural resources. Since the second world war, agriculture has been only looked at from an output-perspective as food provider. The farmers economical model is also based on this. To free ourselves from this production only driven model and turn into a circular system, we need to ensure that value is created in this model. With the pilot we’re engaged in with aESTI we are taking first steps in the direction of such an earnings model and with that towards a circular agricultural system.

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Do you have options for storing CO₂ in soil? Offer this eco-system service now via our platform.