4th plenary iSQAPER meeting

4th plenary meetingThe 4th plenary iSQAPER meeting will be held from Tuesday 12 June – Friday 15 June, 2018 in Tartu, Estonia. The meeting will be held at the campus of the Estonian University of Life Sciences located at Kreutzwaldi str. 5, Tartu, Estonia. The meeting includes a one day field trip to the experimental field plots of the University. Endla Reintam will act as our host. document Travel information (421 KB) is available for download. Participants can register for this meeting after logging in to the website.

Pegasus conference highlights

PegasusDelivering environmental and social benefits from agriculture and forestry in a changing policy context.

On 7 February, more than 120 people representing national authorities, EU institutions, the agricultural and forestry sectors, academics as well as NGOs and think tanks, gathered in Brussels to contribute to an evolving policy debate in Europe through discussions around the key lessons and messages of the PEGASUS project.

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Soil quality – A Critical Review

SQreview sm"Soil quality – A critical review" is the title of a new article published in "Soil Biology & Biochemistry". The article deals with soil quality and related concepts,  besides it identifies the most frequently used soil quality indicators under agricultural land use.

It is an open access article, enabled by different EU funded projects. The iSQAPER project played a major role in the realization of this article. Authors are: Else K. Bünemann, Giulia Bongiorno, Zhanguo Bai, Rachel E. Creamer, Gerlinde De Deyn, Ron de Goede, Luuk Fleskens, Violette Geissen, Thom W. Kuyper, Paul Mäder, Mirjam Pulleman, Wijnand Sukkel, Jan Willem van Groenigen, Lijbert Brussaard.

iSQAPER – Soil Quality App in the spotlights

HorizonmagazineHorizon, the EU Research & Innovation Magazine, pays attention to the developments on the soil quality app for smartphones. Today, 13 February 2018, an article entitled "Cultural cross-fertilisation to rescue soils" was published. Dr. Luuk Fleskens explains that wheat growing areas in north-eastern China are comparable to the conditions in Poland. So, farmers can learn from each other how to manage their soils and crops. The soil quality app makes it possible to share the best practice farming techniques with farmers  from different cultures and traditions, to help them to increase the quality of their soils. The article was written by Jude Gonzalez. Read it here.

iSQAPER – the project explained in a video message

InfovideosProfessor Coen Ritsema of the Wageningen University explains in a video the goals of the iSQAPER project. He stated that the iSQAPER project is focussing on trying to improve the quality of soils and in the same time maintain or increase crop productivity. Multiple problems exists related to soil quality. In Europe there are several soil threats ranging from water and wind erosion, soil degradation, desertification and soil compaction to flooding, landslides and salinization. 

Gripping WP-leader meeting in Évora, Portugal

Meeting evora smallGottlieb Basch from the University of Évora was our host during the WP-leader meeting from 25-26 January, 2018 in Évora, Portugal. During this meeting the WP-leaders gave their feedback about the activities carried out so far. Besides they unfold and finetuned their plans for the near future. Registrated partners can download the presentations directly from the download area or through the table following  the Project activities menu item.

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