20.500.12556/RUL-175233 Stakeholders' perspectives on the current state and transition to sustainable soil management across Europe Implementing sustainable soil management practices to enhance soil health is a priority in research and policymaking across Europe. There is a need to identify the main soil challenges faced by different European stakeholders and the critical threats limiting the adoption of sustainable management of agricultural soils. The present study analyses stakeholders' perspectives on key soil challenges, knowledge gaps, and priorities for agricultural soil research across partner countries that participated in the European Joint Programme on Soil (EJP SOIL) 2020–2025. Two complementary stakeholder activities-a survey and a workshop-were conducted across 24 partner countries (divided into four regions: Central, Northern, Southern, and Western Europe) of the EJP SOIL consortium in 2024. Among 10 pre-identified soil challenges, the findings highlight that maintaining or increasing soil organic carbon, avoiding soil sealing, and avoiding soil erosion are the top three priorities across Europe. However, the perceived prioritisation of soil challenges differed both between and within regions, reflecting each country's specific soil health context. Divergences in perceptions between practitioners and other stakeholder groups underscore the need to develop actions aimed at better understanding the rationale behind such discrepancies and how to overcome them. In addition, other key challenges for achieving sustainable soil management across Europe include limited funding, policy incoherencies, poor knowledge dissemination and co-creation, and insufficient soil monitoring. Environmental factors influencing soil health, including climate change, together with governance and economic models, were perceived to be critical limitations to the adoption of sustainable management of agricultural soils. This study also emphasises the need for a diversity of engagement methods, policies, and system approaches to support a transition towards sustainable soil management. These findings underscore the need for future research agendas that focus on integrated knowledge and participatory approaches, and strategies involving societal awareness and policy alignment-key elements that have also informed broader strategies involving societal awareness and engagement towards sustainable soil management in Europe. divergent perspectives EJP-SOIL knowledge barriers place-based practices science-policy-practitioner nexus soil challenges and threats system approaches ohranitveno kmetijstvo trajnostno kmetijstvo upravljanje s tlemi politike true false true Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Članek v reviji 2025-10-22 13:54:40 2025-10-22 13:54:46 2025-12-07 04:03:02 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2025 0 0 34 str. iss. 5, art. e70214 Vol. 76 2025 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 631.4 1351-0754 10.1111/ejss.70214 254315011 https://bsssjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ejss.70214 1 9eaea518-af3d-11f0-9328-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=220575 Stakeholders__Perspectives_on_the_Curre...pdf Stakeholders__Perspectives_on_the_Curre...pdf 1 6B1BF1F942B579F644EB43905A3F62EB b3e55f843517467861a3f7ba044b1570ccf913f04690137e8478fc0da0d5c032 dac870d1-af3d-11f0-9328-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=220576 Biotehniška fakulteta 0 0 0