continental Archives - SoildiverAgro

SoildiverAgro field day regarding Case studies based on Biocontrol and Plant diversity

13 July, 2023

FAR in collaboration with TI organized a field trip to Rheinland in western Germany on June 6th of 2023 under the patronage of Landwirtschaftskammer Nordrheinwestfalen, a regional agricultural consultant agency which holds a wide network of agricultural stakeholders. With this concept, a large number of participants was attracted to attend. The participants were informed about background, intention and general aims of SoildiverAgro. More specifically, aims, design and current status of the case studies 10 and 11 based on Biocontrol and…

FAR meets farmers

6 February, 2023

Last week our german partner FlächenAgentur Rheinland GmbH (FAR) organised a meeting with farmers, agronomists and biologists. It was placed at Willich, North-Rhine-Westphalia, where FAR informed farmers and employees of the Stiftung Rheinische Kulturlandschaft via a regional meeting about the SoildiverAgro project and the scientific field experiments in Germany. The meeting was held to give a general overview about the project and a more specific one about the latest practices and results, related to CS10: focus on Biocontrol of soil-borne…

SoildiverAgro Posters for Case Studies

12 July, 2022

We created a round of posters to inform you of what we are accomplishing in each Case Study We hope you enjoy them! https://soildiveragro.eu/publications/posters/

New Regional Meeting at the Continental pedoclimatic region

13 January, 2022

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…

Field day at the German experimental plots

18 October, 2021

38 participants mainly formed by farmers, journalists and consultants attended the field day hosted by the conventional farmer who conducts the main parts of CS 10 and 11 and organised by the German SoildiverAgro partners FAR and TI. The event was separated into a first part with oral presentations and a second part with an excursion to the experimental plots of Biocontrol of soil-borne phytopathogenic fungi by fungivorous soil fauna communities in potato cropping systems and Plant diversity is tested…

Regional meeting for Case study 10 related to potatoes at Continental Region

18 January, 2021

The Regional meeting will be celebrated next tuesday 19th and is organized by the SoildiverAgro partners FlächenAgentur Rheinland GmbH (FAR) and Johann Heinrich von Thünen-Institut (TI). Farmers, who are involved in CS10, and other stakeholders are invited. After an introduction they will discuss details regarding establishment and management in CS10, which will be established at spring this year. The objective of this case study titled Biocontrol of soil-borne phytopathogenic fungi by fungivorous soil fauna communities in potato and carrot cropping…

First SoildiverAgro regional meeting in Germany

28 February, 2020

The Horizon2020 project, SoildiverAgro, aims at organizing 5 regional meetings within the project lifetime to discuss in depth the case studies of each pedoclimatic region covered by the project. This first regional meeting took place in Germany last February 19th. It was organized by Stefan Shrader, Thünen-Institute (TI), acting as regional coordinator of the German SoildiverAgro stakeholders´ community. This meeting was done in collaboration with the company FlächenAgentur Rheinland GmbH (FAR), and also the non-profit organization Stiftung Rheinische Kulturlandschaft and…