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Newsletter5 FrontcoverThe fifth SoilCare newsletter has now been published and can be downloaded HERE. This issue covers a range of topics, including:

  1. New database for SICS monitoring
  2. News from the field: Portuguese study site open day
  3. News from the field: Developments in the German Study Site and creation of Applicability Maps
  4. News from the field: Norwegian workshop
  5. SICS Focus: Desertification-specific SICS
  6. New short Study Site films
  7. Management mistakes booklet translations
  8. New SoilCare publications
  9. 9. Recent events/presentations

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All the data that is collected in the monitoring campaigns withn the SoilCare project are centrally stored in the database that is set up and maintained by coleagues of Work Package 5, University of Leuven. Ioanna Panagea and colleagues have now built a web interface in order for SoilCare groups to acces and use this data in the project research. 

They have opened access to the web interface and written a manual for using this web interface. SoilCare partners can download the user manual and follow the procedures described in the manual about how to obtain access and how to use the web interface. The manual can be downloaded HERE after loging in to this website using the login on the bottom right corner.

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The presentations and meeting notes of the most recent Plenary meeting 4 in Almeria, Spain, that was held on April 2nd - April 5th 2019, have been made available on the post-meeting page HERE (please login first before being able to access the page).

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Salinization219th June 2019 - A team from the SoilCare project have published a new open access paper in Agronomy: A Review of soil-improving cropping systems (SICS) for soil salinization.  The review compares the effectiveness of different SICS that aim to cope with soil salinization across 11 countries, in order to reveal those that are the most promising. The analysis shows that besides case-specific optimization of irrigation and drainage management, combinations of soil amendments, conditioners, and residue management can contribute to significant reductions of soil salinity while significantly increasing crop yields. These results highlight that conservation agriculture can also achieve the higher yields required for upscaling and sustaining crop production.

Cuevas, J., Daliakopoulos, I.N., del Moral, F., Hueso, J.J. and Tsanis, I.K., 2019. A Review of Soil-Improving Cropping Systems for Soil Salinization. Agronomy, 9(6), p.295.

For more information about this paper please contact Julian Cuevas This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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  2. Fourth SoilCare Newsletter Published
  3. Two New SoilCare Publications: Soil information sharing and knowledge building
  4. Official SoilCare movie released
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