Farm Carbon Toolkit: Farm Carbon Connect - a holistic and inclusive platform to improve accuracy, transparency, user-friendliness, and cost-effectiveness of existing on-farm software.

农业为更广泛的英国农业食品工业提供了61%的原材料，该行业为国民经济提供了1080亿GB的GVA，并提供了370万个就业机会。农业食品部门每年为英国创造180亿GB的出口总收入(NFU，2017)。农业占英国温室气体排放总量的10%(CCC，2020)。在全球范围内，农业、林业和土地利用占温室气体排放量的18%。像NFU这样的组织已经制定了到2040年英格兰和威尔士农业温室气体净零排放的目标，以支持英国到2050年实现净零排放的雄心(NFU，2020)。VelCourt和作物健康与保护有限公司(CHAP)将专家农学家和数据科学家与农场温室气体排放的全球领导者融合在一起，创建农场碳连接。这个工业研究项目将利用新的方法创新并提供先进的碳计算器，用于模拟整个农场的碳足迹，并改善农业部门使用的数字工具之间数据的获取和互操作性。该联盟开发有意义、准确和有吸引力的农场碳数据的方法，支持FCT的长期目标，即赋予和激励农民和更广泛的粮食系统，以实现其净零目标，同时建立弹性，公平的业务。该项目预计将通过打开新市场、通过与农民、农学家和企业的合作伙伴关系创造收入和团队增长，通过提供有利于英国经济的创新解决方案，为FCT带来变革性的影响。

Agriculture provides 61% of the raw materials for the wider UK agri-food industry which is worth ~£108bn of GVA to the national economy and provides \>3.7 million jobs. The agri-food sector generates ~£18bn of gross export earnings for the UK per year (NFU,2017).Agriculture accounts for 10% of total GHG emissions in the UK (CCC,2020). Globally, agriculture, forestry and land use accounts for 18% of GHG emissions. Organisations such as the NFU have set a goal for net-zero GHG emissions from agriculture in England and Wales by 2040 to support the UK's ambition of achieving net-zero by 2050 (NFU,2020).Farm Carbon Toolkit, Agrimetrics, Velcourt and Crop Health and Protection Limited (CHAP) fuse together expert agronomists and data scientists with global-leaders in farm GHG emissions to create Farm Carbon Connect.This Industrial Research project will exploit new ways to innovate and deliver an advanced carbon calculator for modelling the whole-farm carbon footprint as well as improving access to and interoperability of data between digital tools used by the agri-sector.The consortium's approach to developing meaningful, accurate and engaging farm carbon data, supports FCT's long-term goal of empowering and inspiring farmers and the wider food system to meet its net-zero goals, while building resilient, equitable businesses.This project is anticipated to deliver transformative effects for FCT by opening new markets, generating revenues and team growth through partnerships with farmers, agronomists, and businesses by providing innovative solutions that will benefit the UK economy.