Discover and analyse sustainable management practices and their effects.
The Practice Explorer contains more than 60 documented good practices collected from European farms, EIP Operational Groups, and related research projects. This section helps farmers, advisors, and researchers identify field-tested agricultural management solutions that have proven effective in similar contexts.
Start by selecting a Category of Good Practice, then use the filters on the left to refine the list by country, soil type, climate zone, or crop type. The filtered results show all relevant practices available in the database. For each practice, you can open a detailed information sheet (PDF) through the links below the chart. These fact sheets can also be downloaded directly, and include key information on implementation, observed results, benefits, and data sources.
Once practices are selected, the dashboard generates interactive charts that visualise their qualitative effects on soil health, biodiversity, productivity, and profitability. These effects are represented on a colour-coded scale (green = positive, red = negative, grey = no data).
Category of good practice *Refers to a group of agricultural management practices that share similar goals, methods, or areas of impact.
Good practice *It is considered effective, practical, and repeatable, and can be adopted by others to improve sustainability, productivity, or environmental outcomes.
Organic no-till soybean or maize
Bi-crops sowing of cereals together with nitrogen-fixing plants (legumes, clovers)
Massive input of organic matter
Oat sowing between potato ridges to prevent surface runoff and erosion
Strip cropping
Regenerative agriculture in industrial grain production
Permanent living mulch
Nitrogen extraction from slurry to reduce its nitrogen content before field application
Dense legume sowing as a green manure crop in organic farms with little or no livestock
Cultivation of industrial hemp as a cover crop in arable soils and dairy farming
Implementation of biodiverse grasslands adapted to soil, climate, and livestock management conditions
Diagnostic-based and rational fertilization plan for cork oak stands
Ridge cultivation for maize to enhance resource efficiency and reduce soil erosion
Multifunctional field margins and biodiversity islands for landscape restoration in cereal farming systems
Sowing forage mixtures for grazing improvement
Cover crops in cereal cultivation
Innovative seeder for overseeding grassland
Intercropping and reduced soil intervention to ensure microbial diversity in the soil and its functions for climate-friendly and resource-efficient arable farming
Remote methods for sustainable farm development strategy and soil health
Smart conservation farming for wheat, maize, and sunflower
Mob-grazing in arable forage production to improve drought resilience
Carbon-enhancing soil management in traditional chestnut orchards
Beneficial microbial consortium application for winter rye
Digitalization and Integrated land management in Andalusian erosion-prone olive groves
Land-based mitigation practices in rainfed olive groves
Permaculture-based water retention models with implementation of keylines.
The effect of basic cultivation methods on the quantity and quality of the secondary sweetcorn
Organic fertilization with manure, biodigestate and compost in a tomato crop
Natural grassing for soil conservation in hillside vineyards
Sod-seeding in grazing land to enhance forage production
Poultry grazing in olive grove
Zero tillage technology with living mulch
Innovative sowing and fertilization of hemp
Optimization of irrigation
N-lock slurry additive with precision dosing system for easy application of liquid agents
Innovative practices of fertilizing with manure-Fertikulator tool
potato (in rotation with oat, flax, winter rye, field bean and winter triticale)
Corn, barley, rapeseed, wheat
Soybean, Grain, Maize
Organic farming including cereals, potatos
Organic farming with diversified crop rotation, including cereals, potatoes and green manure crops
Wheat-maize rotation
Maize, occasional sunflower
Maize, wheat, alfalfa
Maize and oilseed rape
Barley and sweetcorn in rotation
corn
rapeseed
rapeseed in rotation with oil radish and other crops
Rapeseed, barley
wheat - corn
Wheat, corn, barley, rapseed
strawberries after barley,sunflower, soy
CountriesFilters practices by the countries where projects and evidence are available.
Austria
Bulgaria
France
Germany
Hungary
Italy
Lithuania
Poland
Portugal
Slovakia
Slovenia
Spain
Category of good practice: Refers to a group of agricultural management practices that share similar goals, methods, or areas of impact.
Good practice: It is considered effective, practical, and repeatable, and can be adopted by others to improve sustainability, productivity, or environmental outcomes.
Select impacts
[This is a mean average of the above selected practices.]
Detailed description of selected good practices (pdf)
II. Comparison Chart
Compare the impact of different soil and crop management practices.
This tool helps users identify the strengths and trade-offs of different approaches. Select two good practices and compare their performance side by side across multiple environmental, agronomic, or economic effects.
You can choose up to six parameters — such as yield stability, soil fertility, or cost efficiency — to see how the practices differ.
The bar chart provides a clear visual comparison to support data-driven decision making and knowledge exchange between practitioners.
