EIT Food & Improvin’: Navarra 360º project reaches data collection milestone.
Navarra 360º is a multi-stakeholder regenerative agriculture program led by EIT Food.
Commercial partners include Alpro, Danone Ecosystems, Cargill, and Intermalta-Malteurop.
Improvin’ provides the data infrastructure powering the program.
The first round of data collection and carbon emissions calculations has been completed.
Increased interoperability and custom features are on the near-term agenda.
Introduction.
EIT Food and Improvin’ have reached a key milestone in the Navarra 360º landscape project, completing the first cycle of farm-level data collection for the regenerative agriculture program.
Navarra 360º is a three-year program supporting farmers in the Navarra region of Spain in transitioning to regenerative practices. The program works across the full crop rotation, including oats, wheat, barley, sunflower, and rapeseed. It combines transition planning, agronomic advisory, training, and financial incentives, and is partially funded by program partners Alpro, Danone Ecosystems, Cargill, and Intermalta-Malteurop, each purchasing crops relevant to their supply chains.
Improvin’ powers Navarra 360º as the program’s data infrastructure, enabling consistent data collection and the quantification of program KPIs and carbon footprints.
A holistic approach engaging the full value chain.
Navarra 360º was designed to support improvements in soil health and climate outcomes through regenerative agriculture.
The program takes a holistic view of regenerative agriculture, tracking carbon emissions and sequestration, and more than 15 indicators related to soil health, inputs and water-use efficiency, biodiversity, and social impact. Navarra 360º is aligned with the SAI Regenerating Together framework and is among the first pilot projects using its latest release.
“From the start, our ambition with Navarra 360º was to bring actors across the value chain together to align on shared needs and responsibilities. By engaging the Navarra region farmers, farm advisors, buyers, processors, methodological experts, and technical partners, we can create a truly meaningful impact,” says Laura López-Cortijo, Agricultural Transition Programme Manager at EIT Food.
The initiative connects value-chain partners to jointly realize value. Agronomy advisors from One Peterson Solutions provide on-the-ground support, helping farmers throughout the transition. Methodology from Cool Farm Tool and Regrow provides GHG and Biochemical quantification.
Improvin’ provides the data infrastructure ensuring that the program’s impact is captured in a high-integrity manner for the participating farmers.
The platform connects data from farmers, farm advisors, soil samples, and farm management systems and combines this with methodology to generate custom KPIs and product carbon footprints per stakeholder.
EIT Food leads the program design and coordination, shaping the initiative based on scientific best practices and local needs. All program partners receive the resulting data and insights in relation to the crops they source, enabling further use in emissions accounting and reporting.
EIT Food Navarra 360º Data Platform.
From ambitious plans to data-backed insights.
To support a program of this scale and complexity, Navarra 360º required a structured and consistent way of working with farm-level data.
“We needed a data setup that could handle complexity. Improvin’ provides a structured way of working with farm-level data, from collection to insights, comparisons and data sharing, while remaining user-friendly for farmers and advisors,” Laura López-Cortijo says.
“Improvin’s technical expertise and experience with regenerative agriculture programs and SAI frameworks made them a natural fit for this project,” she adds.
The program started with regenerative transition plans co-created with farmers, supported by targeted training and ongoing agronomic advisory.
Within six months from kickoff, the custom platform was delivered, farm-level data collected, and the Cool Farm Tool footprint calculated and shared with all participating partners. The milestone demonstrates that landscape-scale regenerative programs can move from ambition to structured, auditable data within months.
The next phase focuses on expanded quantification and interoperability.
The API integration between Improvin’ and Tier 3 model provider Regrow is now in place, enabling project partners to access both Cool Farm Tool and DNDC-based footprints directly within the Improvin’ platform. In addition, a dedicated set of SAI KPIs will be integrated, allowing program partners to move beyond carbon metrics and gain deeper insights into the program’s broader impact.
Data infrastructure built to scale.
For EIT Food, the Navarra 360º program has established a solid foundation and reference point for scaling similar landscape programs in other regions.
“Programs like Navarra 360º show why data infrastructure matters. When you’re working at scale, across multiple crops and stakeholders, you need a reliable way to collect data consistently. Excel sheets have proven to be error-prone and inefficient. Our role is to provide that foundation, so program designers can focus on running the program and program partners can use the data in ways that fit their needs,” says Niklas Wallsargård, CEO and co-founder of Improvin’.
