Turning carbon farming into a credible climate solution requires robust data, practical tools and functioning markets. Within the Carbon Farming MED project, Azolla Projects is playing a pivotal role in making this transition a reality by advancing both the project’s digital infrastructure and its market-facing components.
Digital platform testing
Azolla Projects is currently leading the pilot testing of the Carbon Farming MED digital platform, a core element of the project’s ambition to provide a reliable digital backbone for monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV). By feeding real, field-based data into the system, Azolla is testing how carbon baselines are defined, how future scenarios are modelled and how information flows from farm-level inputs to verified outputs. This hands-on approach ensures that regenerative practices can be translated into robust data capable of supporting decision-making, incentives and future carbon credit schemes.
To ensure the scientific robustness of this testing phase, Azolla Projects is drawing on data from its sister initiative, AgriRegenCarbon, using it to run scenario analyses with predictive soil carbon models such as RothC. This approach helps verify the reliability of soil carbon modelling, clarify real data requirements under Mediterranean farming conditions, and fine-tune MRV workflows so that data collection remains both rigorous and feasible for farmers.
Early testing has already generated valuable insights, helping identify usability challenges, data gaps and areas for technical refinement in close cooperation with the platform’s developers BETA Technological Centre (UVIC-UCC). By applying real agricultural datasets and soil carbon models under Mediterranean conditions, Azolla Projects is ensuring that the platform remains scientifically sound while staying closely aligned with farmers’ operational realities.
Developing digital marketplace for carbon credits
Beyond technical validation, Azolla Projects is also leading efforts to activate the Mediterranean carbon market. A key contribution is the development of a digital marketplace for carbon credits — a transparent “meeting point” where project information, verified documentation and carbon credit data can be accessed by potential buyers. To strengthen credibility and long-term viability, Azolla has initiated collaboration with an established marketplace from another European-funded initiative, ensuring traceability, interoperability and alignment with existing market standards.
Through this dual contribution — piloting advanced MRV tools and structuring market access — Azolla Projects exemplifies how Carbon Farming MED connects innovation with real-world impact. Their work supports empowering farmers to adopt regenerative practices and helps lay the foundations for transparent, resilient and regionally anchored carbon farming schemes in the Mediterranean.
