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Improving nutrient use efficiency – the Danish case

Adding nitrogen and phosphorous to agriculture arable land is a necessity to get a good crop. But excess nutrient use creates well known problems – leakage of nutrients to surrounding waters causing eutrophication. Presently the policy discussions on agriculture are more intense than for a long time. The Ukrainian war inflicts on prices of mineral fertilisers and other inputs leading to even tougher financial situations for farming. EU Member states as well as large parts of the agriculture community, are asking for abandonment of the EU Green Deal’s Farm to Fork strategy’s goal of reducing mineral fertiliser use. At the same time, the global sustainable development goals and other environmental objectives are far from reached and the negative effects of eutrophic waters are obvious.

Improved nutrient use efficiency would be good both for eutrophication and for reducing the farming sector’s dependence on inputs such as mineral fertilisers. So, what can research tell us about nutrient use efficiency? What is the situation around the Baltic Sea? Do actions have an effect? Let’s look at what Denmark implemented before 2016 and if it had an effect!

Speakers

Benoît Dessirier, Researcher, Stockholm University Baltic Sea Centre

Gitte Blicher-Mathiesen, Senior Advisor, Dep of EcoScience, Aarhus University

Practical information

The webinar is broadcast here. This webinar and previous ones could also be found at su.se/ostersjocentrum/balticbreakfast

Date: Wednesday 11 May 2022, 8:30-9:15 (CEST, Local time in Sweden)

No registration is needed.

The webinar is recorded and could be viewed retrospectively at the same website or at our Youtube channel.

Questions and discussion

We highly welcome the audience to ask questions, in advance or during the webinar.

E-mail your question to ostersjocentrum@su.se
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Welcome to a breakfast webinar about actions in agriculture to improve nutrient use efficiency!

Foto: Lisa Bergqvist

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