The PREPSOIL Business Model Canvas (BMC) for Living Labs (LLs) & Lighthouses (LHs) in the Mission Soil is a tailor-made tool that considers the specificities of Soil LLs and LHs to support and inspire these initiatives to find a strategy for their long-term sustainability. [read more]
To achieve this, the PREPSOIL BMC offers practical examples based on different exercises conducted in the PREPSOIL project. These examples can be found below and can be filtered according to different soil uses (agriculture, forestry, (post-)industrial, and (peri-)urban), as well as different elements, and spheres of intervention within each of the elements.
These examples are to serve as guidance and inspiration for the design of Business Models for Soil LLs, acknowledging the uniqueness of each of them in terms of the ambition, capacities, and context in which the LL operates.
For more information on the BMC methodology please see PREPSOIL Report on LL/LH business model plans (D4.2)
For a step-by-step guide on how to use the BMC see Business Model Canvas for Soil Living Labs and Lighthouses: A guide for users
Download your working copy of the BMC here
Introduce long term land tenure systems for feeling of belonging and responsibility
Run a LL with experimental set ups which include nature-based solutions and integrating mixed production
Increased soil health awareness knowledge and application of successful approaches
Improve soil literacy in society
Reverse of rural exodus and attention to rural renewal
To prevent hazards (presence of toxic and harmful elements) to reduce pollution and improve structure and biodiversity
Changes in market preferences (increase the price of animal products that are almost organic with animal welfare, labelling, etc.)
Balance land use: avoiding the overutilization of land close to the villages/cities while in remote areas they are abandoned
Open the market to different customer segments
Changes in land management (new ways to reduce livestocks, number and making farm still profitable, fair subsidies, carbon farming, etc.)
Putting precision agriculture in the service of soil health
Reduce desertification
