This clip features the testimony by Lorenzo Tanini, a farmer who tills the land in Italy. It brings the spotlight on cover cropping, one of the agro-ecological practices promoted by Mara-Mediterra.

Lorenzo Tanini is using both summer and winter cover cropping.

Watch how he explains how the rise in fertilizer costs in 2020 prompted his interest to look for alternatives, and why he reached the conclusion that cover cropping is a cost-effective solution.

His testimony comes with subtitles in either English, French, Arabic, Greek or Turkish, which are the working languages in Mara-Mediterra’s hotspots of land and water degradation.

The testimonial forms part of an initial set of real-life stories of working with Nature-based Solutions by farmers in Italy, Greece and Malta.