====== Research topics relevant to Finca Verde ======

====== Documenting Activities ======

[[finca_verde:farm_log|]]

====== Measuring Impact ======

  * [[https://www.oliveoiltimes.com/production/study-traditional-olive-groves-absorb-more-carbon-than-intensive-ones/101452|Study: Traditional Olive Groves Absorb More Carbon than Intensive Ones]]
  * [[https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301479721010136|Life cycle assessment, C footprint and carbon balance of virgin olive oils production from traditional and intensive olive groves in southern Spain]]
  * [[https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0308521X16303791|Environmental efficiency of olive oil production by small and micro-scale farmers in northern Jordan: Life cycle assessment]]

====== Water conservation ======

  * [[finca_verde:water_log|water log - 2022]]
  * [[https://youtu.be/JSCad-H-wFU|Water Cycle Restoration Success Story]]

===== Economic =====

  * [[finca_verde:research:userid_olives|Identification of users within a niche (Olives)]]
  * Identification of users within a niche (Almonds)
  * Licence to sell directly to customers
  * Commercial price for almonds - farm to table
  * Commercial price for almonds - wholesale
  * [[finca_verde:research:farmtotablefeasibility|General feasibility study for farm to table model]]
  * Shipping farm produce to other countries in EU

===== Tree care =====

  * Olive tree maintenance
  * Orange/Lemon tree maintenance
  * Avocado tree maintenance
  * Nispero tree maintenance
  * Almond tree maintenance
  * Fig tree maintenance

===== New tree possibilities for non irigated land =====

  * [[finca_verde:research:pistachio|Pistachio]] (cost of trees, care, water requirements, maintenance, production per tree est.)