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Soil health
Healthy soils are as important to life on earth as clean air and water. Healthy soils not only lead to healthy and productive crops, they also provide numerous additional ecosystem services such as cl...
Soil compaction and erosion
Soil: carbon sequestration
Besides the ocean, soils are the largest carbon storehouse. With proper management, agricultural soils can even store significantly more carbon than they currently do. Capturing CO2 in the form of soi...
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Soil improvement with organic fertilizers
Soils need a sufficient supply of organic material to improve or maintain soil quality. Organic residues such as crop residues and grass clippings come from agriculture, horticulture and nature reserv...
Application of organic soil improvers
Agroecological strategies for promoting climate change mitigation and adaptation by enhancing soil ecosystem services and sustainable crop production
soil
General introductionARTEMIS is an internal research project of EJP SOIL, aimed at exploring the potential of soils in supporting climate change mitigation and adaptation. Soils provide a vast arra...
Water in agriculture
ILVO joins the Belgian Soil Service and various practical research centers, to study how we can reduce water losses via drainage.
Water holding capacity of the soil
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Agroecology
... The guiding approach of agroecology is summarized in seven principles: striving for more soil health through good management of the organic matter content and by stimulating soil life clo...
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Desealing
...and driveways, for example, which disrupt some of the natural functions of non-paved space. Indeed, soil and open space perform many functions that maintain ecological balance. When a paved area se...
Ruimte op zee
... months to study the impact of these activities on the biological and chemical composition of the soil. Baggerschip Pallieter in the port of Zeebrugge - © ILVO Integrated use of space: food + e...
Algae: seaweed and microalgae
... a sustainable source of protein Our natural resources are under pressure. Fresh water, fertile soils, pollinators and raw materials and even open space is becoming scarce. However, there is on...
Biodiversity and ecosystem services in relation to agriculture
...ragments in the landscape provided a "buffered microclimate" with less variation in temperature and soil moisture content.In areas with more arable farming, on the other hand, the temperature b...
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Protein diversification in food and nutrition
...energy do proteins coming from a fermentation tank require? What is the impact of certain crops on soil or environment? What fertilization do plants require? Are insects sufficient for some residua...
Biodiversity in and on the sea floor
... silt content. Yet other species are opportunists that can thrive in multiple habitats. Different soil communities can thus be distinguished, each inhabited by characteristic species. Types of...
Klimaatmitigatie en klimaatadaptatie
...e bemesten en de bodem duurzaam te beheren. Voorbeelden: EJPSoil SOMMIT Klimaatadaptatie: Zoals hoger aangegeven heeft klimaatverandering impact op veel landbouwaspecten, wat tot verschillende...
Klimaatmitigatie en klimaatadaptatie
...e bemesten en de bodem duurzaam te beheren. Voorbeelden: EJPSoil SOMMIT Klimaatadaptatie: Zoals hoger aangegeven heeft klimaatverandering impact op veel landbouwaspecten, wat tot verschillende...
Structured soil, climate-smart soil management
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Sustainable soils by quality compost with defined properties
https://northsearegion.eu/soilcom/about/
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Enhancing soil health through values-based business models
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Which reward mechanisms work best to promote farming practices that stimulate soil health in Europe
An open access knowledge and data repository to safeguard soils
https://soilwise-he.eu/
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Soil organic carbon sequestration potential of agricultural soils in Europe
https://ejpsoil.eu/research-projects/carboseq/
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Climate change adaptation through soil and crop management (CLIMASOMA): synthesis and ways forward
https://ejpsoil.eu/soil-research/climasoma
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Prevention and remediation of soil compaction
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Large-scale agricultural production, which is often accompanied by the use of heavy machinery, results in an increased risk of soil compaction.
Soil biodiversity enhancement in European agroecosystems to promote their stability and resilience by external inputs reduction and crop performance increase.
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The main objective of the SoildiverAgro project is the adoption of new management practices and cropping systems.
Towards climate-smart sustainable management of agricultural soils
http://www.ejpsoil.eu
https://pureportal.ilvo.be/nl/projects/towards-climate-smart-sustainable-management-of-agricultural-soil
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Sustainable Management of soil Organic Matter to Mitigate Trade-offs between C sequestration and nitrous oxide, methane and nitrate losses
https://ejpsoil.eu/soil-research/ommit
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Consultancy service for better soil and water quality (B3W)
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The aim is to reduce nutrient losses to water, soil and air as well as to improve soil fertility.
Microplastic Contamination in agricultural Soil ecosystems and the effect on soil and plant health
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The MiCoS project, a collaboration between Ghent University and ILVO and financed by ERC, wants to define the effects of microplastics on soil and plant health
HEATHland-derived organic amendments for augmentation of soil C and reduction of PEAT-dependence in horticulture in Flanders
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Agricultural and horticultural soils often struggle with the so-called carbon-nitrogen paradox
Bio-economy and Circular Agriculture for Soil Health
... economically viable, socially acceptable and long-term sustainable beyond the agricultural sector. Soil health is here an important criterion for assessing sustainability. Research approach
Developing and testing a framework for the design of harmonized, context-specific Monitoring, Reporting and Verification systems for soil Carbon and greenhouse gas balances by Agricultural activities
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How can we properly and efficiently monitor, report and verify changes in carbon stocks in European soils (and in woody biomass), as well as greenhouse gas emissions from soils?
Reduction of soil nitrous oxide emissions: innovative mitigation strategies for Flemish agriculture and development of regional emission factors
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How many and which gaseous emissions are released from agricultural soils in Flanders?
Antibiotic residues, antibiotic resistant bacteria and antibiotic resistance genes in manure, soil and plants and the potential exposure of humans
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...act of manure with antibiotic residues and resistance genes. What do we observe in the agricultural soil on which this manure is spread, and what are the effects on the crops that are then grown on...
(A)biotic stress tolerance in Ilex crenata: high soil pH and the pathogen Berkeleyomyces basicola
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A research project initiated by the company Plant Select is studying the possibility of achieving a more tolerant I. crenata through breeding, both in terms of high soil pH and disease resistance.
Soy
...g soy, the environmental aspect would look completely different. That is why growing soy on Flemish soil is a noble, but not yet reachable goal.
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Agroforestry
ILVO studies the impact of agroforestry systems on soil quality, water, climate, biodiversity, and (crop) yield.
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Quinoa
...uinoa fits into a wider cultivation rotation because the cultivation does not exhaust the soil and requires little or no crop protection. Local cultivation is technically possible In 2013, ...
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