A partnership to accompany all Cristal Union cooperators towards the agroecological transition
The agro-ecological transition requires major efforts to support not only farmers but all the different players in the agricultural world. In line with its commitment to decarbonizing its activities, Cristal Union is providing its cooperative members with a new collective action tool to prepare for the agro-ecological transition and meet the challenges of low-carbon agriculture.
This spring 2023, just before the start of beet planting, Cristal Union, in partnership with MyEasyFarm, is launching the self-diagnostic tool MyEasyCarbon Simplified Diagnostic, tailored to sugar beet farming, which allows all cooperative members to perform a simplified carbon assessment of their farm and identify potential levers for improving their carbon footprint via cristalcoop.fr, the online service platform dedicated to Cristal Union members.
Taking stock of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and carbon storage in the soils of beet farms is an essential first step for Cristal Union, which aims to support its cooperators in their efforts to achieve low-carbon agriculture.
MyEasyCarbon, a simple and reliable tool developed by MyEasyFarm
Since 2019, MyEasyFarm certified Data-Agri, a label for agricultural data security developed by the FNSEA and the Jeunes Agriculteurs, which guarantees its users that their data will be protected, secure, and not shared.
Launched in September 2021, the MyEasyCarbon solution for diagnosing, calculating and monitoring carbon credits in large-scale farming is the first application to be certified as Low Carbon by Bureau Veritas.
MyEasyCarbon is an application dedicated to the food industry (farmers, cooperatives, agribusinesses) to identify the factors of reduction of CO2 emissions and increase soil carbon storage in agriculture and measure them, which can eventually generate additional income for farmers in the form of carbon credits. The solution is already being used by a growing number of low-carbon project developers in France, which Cristal Union is now joining.
MyEasyCarbon Simplified Diagnostic, an adapted tool and a first step towards decarbonizing Cristal Union's upstream agricultural activities.
Totally free of charge for Cristal Union cooperators, this online self-assessment tool provides access in about 20 minutes to the net carbon footprint of the farm (calculated on the basis of greenhouse gas emissions and carbon storage in the soil) and identifies effective levers for improving its footprint.
For Cristal Union, the analysis of the simplified carbon diagnostics will make it possible to carry out an inventory of the carbon footprint of the agricultural sector in order to better support volunteer farmers in their projects to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions or to sequester carbon in the soil of their farms. With MyEasyCarbon Simplified DiagnosticCristal Union is continuing on the path of decarbonization in order to achieve its ambitious objectives of a -25% reduction in GHG emissions for our agricultural and industrial activities by 2030.
"For our cooperative, the challenge of agricultural decarbonization means that we must support all willing cooperators in changing their practices towards the agro-ecological transition. The availability of the simplified self-diagnosis tool MyEasyCarbon is a first major step. This will enable cooperators who so wish to undertake a plan for agronomic progress towards low-carbon agricultural practices or to commit to a Low Carbon Label approach that can generate carbon credits and/or enhance the value of their low-carbon production through premiums. underlines Bruno Labilloy, Agricultural Director of Cristal Union.
