Soilman - Events

Events

Past events

BiodivERsA Conference

Members of the SoilMan project participated at the final conference of the projects funded through the BiodivERsA 2015-2016 Call "Understanding and managing biodiversity dynamics to improve ecosystem functioning and delivery of ecosystem services in a global change context: the cases of soils and sediments, and land- river and sea-scapes".

Access to the conference website: (Link: https://www.biodiversa.org/1644)

SoilMan Summer School

From 17-20 September 2019 a SoilMan Summer School has been organised in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
Here you find some further information:

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Workshops

How to value ecosystem services provided from soil biota in arable land through the CAP? - An interactive workshop for EU stakeholders", 27th February 2018, Brussels

In the European Biodiversa-funded project SoilMan we are analysing the inter-connections between soil biodiversity, agriculture management systems and economic consequences of changes in policy and practice. Soil biodiversity plays a crucial role in cropland for delivering key ecosystem services, i.e. plant nutrient availability, plant health, water quality and infiltration, carbon sequestration. We took the opportunity of the workshop to identify pathways how to foster benefits from soil organisms in agriculture production and how to positively influence soil-dependant ecosystem services in quantity and quality by shaping future political and agronomic decisions.
Together with the 25 stakeholders who participated in the workshop we identified ways how to provide incentives to farmers to adjust their farming practices in order to enhance the provision of ecosystem services with a particular focus on the upcoming reform of the Common Agriculture Policy in view of fostering soil protection and life in soils.