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SoildiverAgro at the EIP AGRI news

Case study 1 ran by UPCT and focus on the Use of soil biodiversity to reduce soil-borne diseases/pests incidence and increase nutrient availability in potatoes cropped in multiple cropping and rotations was selected by EIP AGRI to include as an inspirational idea. Take a look here: Inspirational idea: Improving soil biodiversity to reduce inputs | EIP-AGRI (europa.eu) Finding adequate crop rotations/multiple cropping to manage soil biodiversity, was not performed so far. Assessment of PGPB on soil biodiversity, since it has…

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boreal regional meeting 2022

Annual SoildiverAgro regional meeting for the boreal region in 2022

Boreal region is organizing its annual Regional meeting for project members and all Finnish partners on current topics and ongoing tasks in the SoildiverAgro project. It will be held in Helsinki at Luke Viikki and online in Teams on 21st Thursday 21st April 12:00 h and 15:00 h. 17 project members from Luke, Petla, Kilpiä and Tyynelä farm partners have been invited to discuss and change information about the current situation and ongoing tasks in the project. One of the…

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pomona field day

1st SoildiverAgro Field day at POMONA

On Saturday 19th of February, around 100 brave participants participated at the first POMONA field day to visit the SoildiverAgro case study, the farm, shop, orchard and ‘food-forest’. The word ‘brave’ is especially added because the weather was very bad (rainy and windy) due to the remainders of the strong storm Eunice that passed one day before and caused a lot of damage in Belgium and other European countries. Luckily, the damage to the Pomona area was limited. But, as…

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New Regional Meeting at the Continental pedoclimatic region

23 participants between biologists, agronomists and geographers participated at the event organized by our German partner FAR in collaboration with Stiftung Rheinische Kulturlandschaft. The online meeting celebrated on 10th January was held to give a general overview of the SoildiverAgro project and a more specific one about the latest practices and results in the region. The Stiftung Rheinische Kulturlandschaft is a non-profit organization with the following aim: Promotion of nature and landscape protection by maintaining and promoting the uniqueness, diversity…

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Complete booklet

New SoildiverAgro Booklet explaining Regional Communities and case studies

SoildiverAgro project has created this nice booklet explaining the Regional Communities and Case studies related. Also, infographics around each case study were created to better understand the processes involved. Have a look at the complete booklet here or explore region by region: Boreal Nemoral Atlantic Central Continental Lusitanian Mediterranean South

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inorde potatoe donation

Inorde donates 8,000 kilos of potatoes to the Food Bank

Inorde has donated nearly 8,000 kilos of potatoes from A Limia, from the European crop diversification project SoildiverAgro, to the Ourense Food Bank. ”It is the first of a series of deliveries with which we want to collaborate with the people and families who need it most,” says the president of the economic institute, Rosendo Fernández.

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Soildiveragro at the EIP Agri Farm-Data seminar

Our partner Roosi Soosaar from the Nemoral region is presenting SoildiverAgro project case study (CS12) – spore sampler (in Estonia). Watch the video she prepares here: ”Our goal is to improve the ecological sustainability of disease management, through more targeted fungicide applications. For most pathogens, it takes several weeks from the actual infection to the onset of symptoms. To avoid unnecessary spraying we target disease control based on monitoring of phytopathogenic fungi in the area” Roosi Soosaar If you want…

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Proceedings Book from FAO symposium has been released

SoildiverAgro actively participated during the Global Symposium on Soil Biodiversity (GSOBI21) which brought together over 5,000 participants from 160 countries. This event organised by the FAO has now published its proceedings book where two SoildiverAgro abstracts from UVigo are included on page 370 (M.J. Briones) and 815 (D.Fernández), download here: Proceedings of the Global Symposium on Soil Biodiversity 2021 (fao.org) Interesting ideas, actions and gaps were shared and discussed through interactive plenary and parallel sessions. All agreed that soil biodiversity…

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join regional community

Launch of SoildiverAgro Community, a network to exchange experiences and gain knowledge linked with production and ecosystem services

SoildiverAgro project launches the Stakeholders Community conformed by different stakeholders managing agro-ecosystems, which will be the primary beneficiaries of the project outcomes. Around each case study, volunteer farmers will be enrolled in Regional Communities to improve knowledge exchange between scientists, and stakeholders, to co-create new knowledge, to put into practice research results, to boost interactive and demand-driven innovation, and moreover to focus on real problems or opportunities that farmers are facing. These engaging activities are essential to demonstrate and promote…

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