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Practical and regulatory barriers for better manure handling in Norway, Spain and Italy: Stakeholder interview report in The PROENV Project
Get PDFThis report, part of the PRONV project, explores practical and regulatory barriers to sustainable manure management in Italy, Spain, and Norway. Based on interviews with farmers’ organizations and regulators. It is intended to complement the abstract statistical models used in the project, by emphasizing real-world challenges and opportunities.
In Italy, farmers face high upfront costs for sustainable technologies, regulatory fragmentation across regions, and outdated EU directives that fail to account for diverse agricultural contexts. Cultural resistance and limited training also hinder progress. However, opportunities lie in modern technologies like biogas, reforming the Nitrate Directive, reward-based incentives for ecosystem services and targeted education for younger farmers.
In Spain, economic viability is also a concern, where composting infrastructure and precision technologies are seen as costly. Bureaucratic complexity, rigid nitrogen rules, water scarcity, and environmental degradation pose additional challenges. Respondents advocate for streamlined regulations, cooperative composting models, subsidies for sustainable practices, and educational outreach to foster change.
In Norway, high costs and profitability concerns are compounded by burdensome documentation systems and geographical mismatches between livestock and crop regions. Farmers also face knowledge gaps about nitrogen use and limited access to tailored training. Key solutions include subsidies for equipment, payments for ecosystem services, streamlined reporting platforms, and localized research on nitrogen dynamics and emissions.
Overall, the report identifies common barriers: economic constraints, inflexible and complex regulations, practical and geographical limitations, cultural resistance, and knowledge gaps. It recommends six strategic actions: (1) modernizing and harmonizing policy frameworks, (2) shifting to performance-based economic incentives, (3) investing in research and technology, (4) expanding farmer education and outreach, (5) fostering community and cross-country collaboration, and (6) addressing geographic nutrient imbalances and environmental limitations.
This integrated approach aims to align environmental goals with farmers’ realities, promoting sustainable agriculture that supports both ecological and economic resilience across Europe
NORSØK engaged in European research-cooperation to find replacements for the use of peat in soil production
No full textThe use of peat for soil-production creates large climate emissions and threatens vulnerable bog areas where the peat is harvested. At the same time it is a challenge to find a good alternatives that growers can trust. NORSØK is active in this work, and recently arranged a webchat that brought together people from the entire value-chain with growers, waste industry and researchers in order to exchange experience and knowledge
Skogshage - hvorfor, hvor, hvordan? - konsept for agroøkologi
Get PDFBegrepet «skogshage» kan umiddelbart virke lett å forstå, men ved nærmere ettertanke fins det mange mulige varianter av skogshager. Skogshager kan også ha en plass i konseptet agroøkologi. Her presenteres skogshage for europeiske og norske forhold slik det kan tolkes inn i en moderne sammenheng til agroøkologi og agroforestry. Skogshage og agroforestry bygger på mange av de 13 prinsippene som agroøkologien beskriver. Fordeler, ulemper og muligheter ved slik dyrking blir omtalt
Jordlappen flere filmer, inkludert Bedre jordkvalitet med Jordhelsekortet (filmsnutter) YouTube
No full textFilmer knyttet til Jordlappen - 10 indikatorer for vurdering av jordkvalitet og jordhelse. Ved å sjekke jorda og fylle ut Jordkvalitetskortet har du et grunnlag for å vurdere hva som er bra og mindre bra i jorda knyttet til plantevekst og du får noen innspill på tolkinger av det som sees. Det finnes også flere filmer knyttet til de 10 ulike indikatorene i Jordlappen
Potensiale for store metanreduksjoner fra gjødsla
Get PDFForskerne har sett nærmere på klimagassutslipp fra gjødsellager. Nå ser de potensial for metanreduksjoner med enkle midler. – Disse resultatene er spennende. Nå må vi verifisere resultatene i flere gjødsellager sånn at vi kan være sikre på at dette stemmer
Hva skjer når karbon tilføres norsk landbruksjord?
No full textKarbon i jordbruksjord er et hett forskningstema der man ser etter positive effekter som økte avlinger, forbedret jordhelse og klimagevinster
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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