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

每天在超市货架上堆放土豆似乎是一项简单且影响小的任务；然而，在英国生产土豆是一个高能源和高成本的过程，碳足迹高，而且会破坏环境。从导致土壤极端破坏、释放大量碳和破坏宝贵地下关系的密集耕作，到能源密集型的长期储存和运输，开发和建立可持续的土豆种植和供应方式是当务之急。TuberNetZero项目将英国土豆供应链中的主要参与者聚集在一起，合作开发真正、实用、商业上可行的低碳解决方案，用于种植、储存和运输土豆。项目合作伙伴致力于通过实施将现有实践与商业规模的新技术相结合的多学科方法，为可持续的英国马铃薯种植创建令人信服的数据驱动路线图。在项目结束时，他们将确定最有潜力为英国马铃薯种植者和更广泛的马铃薯产业带来好处的解决方案/S。

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.