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Portugal - Organic sector factsheet
Get PDFThis factsheet provides an overview of the organic agriculture sector in Portugal, including farmland area, market trends, and key figures on organic production. It also outlines CAP policy support, detailing financial allocations, eco-schemes, and strategic goals for organic farming. Additionally, it highlights national action plans and support measures for organic aquaculture and market development
Sweden - Organic sector factsheet
Get PDFThis factsheet provides an overview of the organic agriculture sector in Sweden, including farmland area, market trends, and key figures on organic production. It also outlines CAP policy support, detailing financial allocations, eco-schemes, and strategic goals for organic farming. Additionally, it highlights national action plans and support measures for organic aquaculture and market development
Onsite greywater reuse in a low-tech solar-driven pilot laundry facility: field insights on performance, self-sufficiency, and user acceptance
Get PDFThis study evaluates the LaundReCycle system, a unique low-tech laundry facility designed for water and energy self-sufficiency through greywater treatment and reuse, rainwater harvesting, and solar power. Installed in Cape Town, South Africa, the system treats greywater using a settling tank, biofilter, sediment and activated carbon filters, and UV disinfection. Treated water is reused for washing, while rainwater replenishes losses and an off-grid solar setup supplies energy. The biofilter achieved 82% chemical oxygen demand (COD) and 95% turbidity removal after a 3-day retention time. This demonstrates effective treatment within a short timeframe. The results suggest potential suitability for low-grade laundry reuse. However, broader applicability may be limited by residual coloration and stable compounds. Water self-sufficiency improved during the study, reaching up to 93 %. Energy self-sufficiency reached 91.6 and 90.8 % in a scenario with increased energy efficiency and operationa
Plant neighbour type distinctively alters barley root-associated microbiomes under contrasting water stress conditions
No full textIt is well acknowledged that diversified cropping systems provide ecosystem benefits that promote sustainable crop production. Focal plants growing in diverse communities acquire resilient traits including distinct microbiomes that facilitate nutrient acquisition, disease suppression and resilience against abiotic stresses. Yet, we still have limited knowledge of individual plant neighbour effect on focal host root-associated microbiomes. Here, we examined the effect of plant neighbour on focal barley root microbiome assembly and 16 potential microbial functions under different drought stress scenarios, using bacterial 16S rRNA and fungal ITS amplicon sequencing analysis. We found neighbour type have distinct effects on focal barley microbial diversity and composition under contrasting water stress conditions. Distinct microbial taxa were differentially enriched between barley monocrop and intercrop systems. Distinct plant neighbours promote the enrichment of specific beneficial bacterial genera such as Variovorax, Massilia, Bacillus, Devovsia and Acidovorax in highly water limited than non-limited conditions. Additionally, we found potential microbial functions characterized different intercrop systems under contrasting water stress conditions. Specifically, barley roots from rye neighbour were significantly enriched with several functions associated with the nitrogen cycle, suggesting that rye root traits such as secreted benzoxazinoids could potentially interact with the N-cycling in the soil. These findings deepen our understanding into crop type selection for intercropping systems to promote sustainable crop production
Elisa Lorenzetti lentil mixtures + biostimulant
No full textCultivar mixtures consist in a certain number of cultivars grown together on the same field: it has been proven that cultivar mixtures could buffer biotic and abiotic stresses, especially in organic and low input farming, through compensation, complementarity and competition processes.
Biostimulants, either plant extracts or microorganisms, aim at increasing crop quality parameters, at enhancing plant nutrition efficiency and plant ability to face abiotic stresses.
Cultivar mixtures were designed with a functional diversity approach: from a collection of lentil genotypes under study at SSSA, we selected two groups of cultivars performing different ecosystem functions, that were proven not be correlated with each other in previous studies.
The collection is composed of Italian lentil germplasm, gathered from local and foreign genebanks, from seed savers associations (e.g. RSR), universities, research centers and lentil farmers
Win-Win-Situationen auf der Weide: Biodiversität und Fleischqualität
No full textKräuterreichere Weiden führen zu höheren Omega-3-Gehalten im Fleisch. Dies liegt nicht daran, dass Kräuter mehr Omega-3 liefern würden, vielmehr schützen bestimmte Substanzen aus den Kräutern die Omega-3-Fettsäuren davor, bereits im Pansen durch Saturierung verloren zu gehen
Hoftötung von Schweinen – Stressarmes Töten von Schweinen auf dem Landwirtschaftsbetrieb zur Fleischgewinnung
No full textDas Merkblatt beschreibt die rechtlichen, fachlichen und praktischen Grundlagen zur Hoftötung von Schweinen. Es erklärt, wie Schweine auf dem eigenen Betrieb tierschutzgerecht betäubt und getötet werden können. Diese praxisnahe Orientierungshilfe vermittelt, welche Voraussetzungen dafür erfüllt sein müssen. Ziel ist eine möglichst stressarme und respektvolle Tötung im gewohnten Umfeld des Tieres
"Noch Jahre von der Praxis entfernt"
No full textIm Vitifit-Projekt erforscht Stefan Schumacher Alternativen zu Kupfer im Ökoweinbau. Im Interview spricht er über Fortschritte und Herausforderungen, die auf einem Kongress in Merzhausen präsentiert wurden
Co-evolution of virulence and resistance in heterogeneous wheat populations
Get PDFPresenting the results from DIVERSILIENCE and COBRA projects about the co-evolution of virulence and resistance in heterogeneous wheat populations
Syntropic farming systems for reconciling productivity, ecosystem functions, and restoration
Get PDFInspired by the succession and vertical stratification found in nature, syntropic farming systems (SFS) incorporate annual and perennial plants in diversified farming systems. Numerous practice examples show the potential of SFS to enhance agroecosystems via optimised design and active management. Yet, scientific knowledge on SFS remains scarce, especially in the temperate zone. We compiled findings on the outcomes and enablers of SFS from 67 studies comprising diverse SFS designs—mainly from tropical countries—that have the potential to be implemented in temperate agricultural landscapes. Most studies highlight the high agrobiodiversity, nutritional diversity, and yield quality of SFS. Comparing the productivity of SFS with other farming systems shows mixed results. Carbon storage, soil fertility, water cycling, climate resilience, and plant health appear favourable in SFS across widely varying cropping systems and environments. SFS can also provide meaningful and dignified work. Nevertheless, remaining obstacles include high labour demand, intensive knowledge requirements, availability of tools and machines for SFS, and a lack of enabling policies. Efforts should focus on harnessing SFS to address the escalating socioecological crises in agri-food systems worldwide, including those of intensively managed cropland systems in the temperate zone where SFS systems could help to redesign agricultural landscapes