Developing practical guidance and evidence of sustainable practices, working towards a net-zero potato supply chain - TuberNetZero

每天在超市货架上储存土豆似乎是一项简单且影响较小的任务;然而，在英国生产土豆是一个高能源和成本密集型的过程，碳足迹高，对环境有害。从导致极端土壤破坏、释放大量碳、破坏宝贵地下关系的高强度种植到能源密集型的长期储存和运输，开发和建立可持续的种植和供应马铃薯的方式势在必行。英国马铃薯零碳项目汇集了英国马铃薯供应链中的大公司，共同开发真正、实用、用于种植、储存和运输马铃薯的商业上可行的低碳解决方案，在不影响质量的前提下-所有这些都可以在田间规模而不是试验田实施。项目合作伙伴致力于创建一个令人信服的数据-通过实施多学科方法，将现有实践与商业上的新技术相结合，推动英国马铃薯可持续种植的路线图规模在项目结束时，他们将确定最有可能对英国马铃薯种植者和更广泛的马铃薯产业有益的解决方案。

Stocking potatoes on supermarket shelves on a daily basis might seem like a simple and low impact task; however, producing potatoes in the UK is a high energy- and cost-intensive process with a high carbon footprint and damaging to the environment. From the intense cultivations that cause extreme soil damage, release large amounts of carbon, and destroy the valuable underground relationships to energy-intensive long-term storage and transport, it is imperative to develop and establish sustainable ways of growing and supplying potatoes.The TuberNetZero project brings together big players within the UK's potato supply chain in partnership to develop genuine, practical, commercially viable low carbon solutions for growing, storing, and transporting potatoes, without compromising quality - all implementable at field scale rather than pilot plots.Project partners are committed to creating a compelling data-driven roadmap for sustainable UK potato growing by implementing a multidisciplinary approach that combines existing practices with new technology on a commercial scale. At the end of the project, they will have identified solution/s that have the best potential to be beneficial to English potato growers and wider potato industry.