SQAPP: the soil quality app ¦ Quick user guide
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SQAPP: the soil quality app ¦ Official Launch, 5 December 2020
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SQAPP: the soil quality app ¦ Official Launch Preview
The iSQAPER project and its teams are proud to announce the official launch of SQAPP: the soil quality app on 5 December 2020, in celebration of World Soils Day.
SQAPP is the flagship product of the iSQAPER research programme; an innovative soil quality app for mobile devices developed, tested, evaluated and improved by farmers, agricultural service providers, scientists and policy makers.
SQAPP:
- Gives users free access to soil maps and contextual soil quality information.
- Assesses the most probable threats to soil quality with explicit links between soil quality status and agricultural management.
- Provides targeted advice on how to improve soil quality status with different agricultural management practices.
- Has the capacity for users to interact with the databases, uploading local data to refine the soil quality analysis and recommendations.
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New briefing paper: Assessing soil quality in agro-ecosystems
In this briefing paper Giulia Bongiorno explains how monitoring soil quality indicators can help in the establishment of management practices that better support the multiple ecosystem services that good quality soil provides. The effect of soil management on organic carbon is traditionally measured by monitoring total organic carbon (TOC). However here we show that the novel indicator permanganate oxidizable carbon (POXC) is a more informative alternative.
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6th plenary iSQAPER meeting
The 6th plenary meeting will be held from Tuesday 10 - 13 March 2020. Prior to this meeting there will be a Work Package leader meeting on Monday 9 March 2020. The meeting will be held at Technological Educational Institute of Crete, renamed recently to Hellenic Mediterranean University, Estavromenosstreet, 71004, Heraklion Crete, Greece. The meeting includes a one day field trip to the experimental field plots of the University. The team of Costas Kosmass, with Xrisa Aratzioglou as local partner, will be our hosts.
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New briefing paper: Getting to the roots of sustainable land management
In a recent blog, the iSQAPER team at IEEP writes that »World Soil Day highlights urgency for EU action on improving the health of our soils
In the accompanying briefing paper by Stephen Meredith seeks to inform EU, national and regional policy makers about how the latest CAP reform could deliver much-needed improvements in environmental and climate action.
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