Date/Time
Date(s) - 12/05/2020
19:30 - 21:00
Categories
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๐๐ก๐ ๐ฉ๐ก๐จ๐ฌ๐ฉ๐ก๐จ๐ซ๐จ๐ฎ๐ฌ ๐๐ซ๐ข๐ฌ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง ๐๐ ๐ซ๐ข๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐: ๐๐ง ๐๐ฅ๐ญ๐๐ซ๐ง๐๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ ๐ฅ๐จ๐จ๐ค ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐จ๐ซ๐๐ฌ๐ญ.
๐๐๐ฅ๐ค ๐๐ฒ ๐๐ข๐๐ค ๐๐๐ฉ๐๐ฅ๐ฌ ๐๐จ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฐ๐๐ ๐๐ฒ ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง.
It has been known for a while that our global phosphorous reserves are diminishing due to an increasing demand of the nutrient in the fertilizer industry. The mining of phosphorous has a detrimental impact on its immediate environment and it is an nonrenewable resource, of which winds up in water ways and forms chemical bonds in the soil, making it inaccessible for plants. The whole story seems to be a downward spiral of which farmers all over the world will feel the consequences.
Niek Pepels, MSc Organic Agriculture student, has studied food forests and how the forest ecosystem manages nutrients such as phosphorous, resulting in a resilient system that is independent from additional fertilizers. He shows that forests remain productive for hundreds of years without any inputs. How is this possible? And can we learn from his research in a transition to sustainable farming systems?
Join us for this webinar, where Niek will give his interesting presentation, followed by a question and discussion session about the future of phosphorous in agriculture.
A short introduction of ๐๐ข๐๐ค ๐๐๐ฉ๐๐ฅ๐ฌ::
In the last 5 years, I have been researching regenerative agricultural systems that produce food, fibre and medicine and simultaneously provide all the ecosystem services on which our species depends. Through the lens of an ecologist, I studied different agro-ecosystems and my journey has brought me to the Tree Crop systems of Europe that, in my opinion, serve as a blueprint for future regenerative agricultural systems based on perennial species. Perennial-crop based agriculture has the potential to become the new dominant European agricultural system as it would help fight many challenges that we are currently facing, such as the global biodiversity crisis and the glooming depletion of our phosphorus-mines