Paludiculture means wetland farming, i.e. the productive use of wet and rewetted land for farming or forestry (without being drained). Using test-sites across Ireland, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom to deliver 3 large-scale paludiculture demonstrators, Palus Demos seeks to prepare wetland agriculture for market by offering proof-of-concept for scaling up farming via paludicultue as a means of production — including for entirely new products and industries such as sphagnum moss and carbon farming.

PROJECT GOALS

• Materials development and capacity building on landscape finance
• Co-creation workshops involving international experts
• Investment opportunities for paludiculture
• Develop sustainable socio-economic models
• Develop accounting methods for carbon removals
• Creating a long-term business plan for each demonstrator
• Developing the data-powered, user-friendly SmartPaludi decision support platform

PALUDICULTURE DEMONSTRATOR IRELAND — BALLAGHURT

• Further establish soil-carbon storage
• Inform future voluntary carbon markets
• Wetland farming by Sphagnum cultivation
• Carbon farming by diverse paludiculture crops
• Create Knowledge Transfer groups
• Generate landscape-scale financing
• Demonstrate low-cost monitoring
• Establish a Peatland Centre of Excellence