Fourth SoilCare Newsletter Published
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The fourth SoilCare newsletter has now been published and can be downloaded HERE. This issue covers a range of topics, including:
- New Report: Review of Soil Advice
- News from the field: Progress in the Spanish SICS trials in organic olive orchards and stone fruit plantations
- News from the field: Progress on the woodchip trials in Belgium
- SICS Focus: Organic matter decline
- New SoilCare Film
- New SoilCare booklet for farmers
- New SoilCare publications
- Past and Future events/presentations
Two New SoilCare Publications: Soil information sharing and knowledge building
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29th April 2019 - The SoilCare team from the University of Gloucestershire in UK has recently published two papers in a Special Issue of Soil Use and Management - Soil information sharing and knowledge building for sustainable soil use and management: insights and implications for the 21st Century which brings together a number of insights from Australia, USA and Europe about the generation, exchange and use of information and knowledge building for sustainable soil use and management, predominately in agriculture. The first paper, Are advisory services “fit for purpose” to support sustainable soil management? An assessment of advice in Europe, examines the extent to which advisory services are able to address current and emerging knowledge needs of practitioners (primarily farmers) about sustainable soil managementin Europe. The second paper, The use of Twitter for knowledge exchange on sustainable soil management, illustrates, through a content analysis of the SoilCare Twitter account and in-depth qualitative interviews with farmers, the extent and type of farmer-to-farmer knowledge sharing on Twitter in relation to sustainable soil management practices.
Ingram, J.A. and Mills, J., 2018. Are advisory services ‘fit for purpose’ to support sustainable soil management? An assessment of advice in Europe. Soil Use and Management, 35(1), pp. 21-31. doi: 10.1111/sum.12452
Mills, J., Reed, M., Skaalsveen, K. and Ingram, J., 2018. The use of Twitter for sustainable soil management knowledge exchange. Soil Use and Management, 35 (1), pp. 195-203. doi.org/10.1111/sum.12485
For more information about these papers, please contact either Julie Ingram This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or Jane Mills This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Official SoilCare movie released
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Wageningen, April 11th - The official SoilCare movie, that explains what the project is about, has been released and can be viewed below.
The movie has been made by partner 28: ScienceView Media. The movie is recorded in various SoilCare partner countries and is subtitled in English.
The version with various subtitle translations can be viewed using the following link: https://vimeo.com/331219095.
Third plenary meeting in Almeria successfully ended
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Almeria - April 5th, 2019 - The third plenary meeting of the SoilCare project has successfully ended on Friday, April 5th 2019. The meeting was hosted by local partner University of Almeria: partner representative Julián Cuevas and his team planned a perfect meeting and all 54 attendees had a wonderful time in Almeria, Spain.
The meeting program consisted of Work Package presentations, a poster session by the Study Sites, the usual information carousel, presentations by partner projects iSqaper and Landmark, and on Friday a visit to two field sites where Soil Improving Cropping System trials are implemented.
The meeting output, presentations, meeting notes and pictures will be made available soon on this website.
