Cool Farm tool (COOLFARM)

Cool Farm is a calculator tool to make a greenhouse gas emission/ carbon footprint assessment of a farm on the basis of harvested yield and marketable yield product weights, the growing area, fertilizer applications (type and rate), number of pesticide applications, energy use (electricity and fuel use), and, if applicable, transport (mode, weight of product and distance). For farms with livestock calculations are built from herd size, manure management, feed and energy use. Cool Farm also includes a biodiversity metric, which quantifies how well farm management supports biodiversity, and water use metrics, to provide crop irrigation requirements and assess blue and green water footprints. The Cool Farm Tool covers virtually all crops and livestock globally, except crops grown in non-soil media (e.g. greenhouses or hydroponically).