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 and beauty of the rural cultural landscape, its sustainable usability and its biotope and species diversity. This non-profit organization holds and develops an important network of farmers and other stakeholders in the region of case studies 10 (Biocontrol of soil-borne phytopathogenic fungi by fungivorous soil fauna communities in potato cropping systems) and 11 (Plant diversity is tested to promote soil intrinsic self-regulating processes and to enhance fungivorous soil fauna communities in wheat-cropping systems).