The Best Practices tool supports Member States in defining agricultural measures, allowing them to assess the potential effects of some of the main agricultural practices on different crops, also taking into account climate change scenarios.The tool allows to identify the best practice to apply according to the user’s goal. The tool is meant to be applied by: · public authorities, such as regional environmental agencies, to find the best solutions out of feasible management practices according to the overall goal (e.g., increase in soil organic carbon stock, reduction of nitrate leaching) or in view of CAP Eco-schemes; · farmers who want to evaluate the crop production under current and optimized management.

The tool works over the Campania Region, Marchfeld and Zala County and allows the free selection of any region of interest (ROI), administrative unit (e.g. Municipality).

For each of the simulated soils and scenarios, the tool returns the mean annual value of crop yield, nitrate leaching, and the change of the soil organic carbon stock in the upper soil layer (0-0.4 m). The tool also provides the value of the synthetic “best practices index” (IBP).