Soil salinisation
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How to maintain agricultural productivity by preventing, reducing or adapting to soil salinity?
The final report of this Focus Group has been published.
Get all the information at a glance in the Soil salinisation factsheet.
Tasks:
- Make an inventory of European areas affected by soil salinisation and the current agricultural practices in these areas.
- Identify and assess the sustainability of good and innovative farming practices from various paedoclimatic contexts within the EU, which can prevent and reduce the threat of soil salinisation or control its negative effects.
- Explore opportunities to add market value to locally adapted varieties which are (more) tolerant to salt stress so as to compensate yield reduction.
- Discuss the potential of minor crops with increased tolerance to salt stress.
- Propose potential innovative actions and ideas for Operational Groups.
- Identify needs from practice and possible gaps in knowledge concerning soil salinisation which may be solved by further research.
Results:
Other information:
- Agenda first meeting 15-16 May 2019 - Budapest, Hungary
- Agenda second meeting 15-16 October 2019 - Tarragona, Spain
- Case studies presented by the FG experts
- Minipaper on measuring, mapping and monitoring soil salinity
- Minipaper on soil salinity prevention, mitigation and adaptation
- Minipaper on decission support systems for efficient irrigation
- Minipaper on ecosystem services and salinisation
- Minipaper on productivity under saline conditions
- Minipaper on salt tolerant crops as an alternative to farmers
- Minipaper on quality aspects of plants in response to soil salinisation
Focus Group members:
| Surname, first name | Profession | Country |
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Amezketa Lizárraga, María Esperanza
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Researcher | Spain |
| Canfora, Loredana | Researcher | Italy |
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Cunha Brito Ramos, Tiago
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Researcher | Portugal |
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de Vos, Arjen
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Researcher | Netherlands |
| Falsone, Gloria | Researcher | Italy |
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Gonçalves, Maria
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Researcher | Portugal |
| Gould, Iain | Researcher | United Kingdom |
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Hristov, Biser
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Researcher | Bulgaria |
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Jung, Stephan
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Researcher | Germany |
| Maggio, Albino | Researcher | Italy |
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Mastrorilli, Marcello
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Researcher | Italy |
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Núñez, Montserrat
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Researcher | Spain |
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Paz, Ana
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Researcher | Portugal |
| Prins, Peter | Adviser | Netherlands |
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Saraiva Castanheira, Nádia Luísa
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Researcher | Portugal |
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Tamvakidis, Stylianos
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Researcher | Greece |
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Thompson, Rodney
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Researcher | Spain |
| Tóth, Tibor | Researcher | Hungary |
| de Vries, Tineke | Farmer | Netherlands |
| Zambujo, Jorge | Adviser | Portugal |
| Facilitation team | ||
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Costantini, Edoardo
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Coordinating expert | Italy |
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García Lamparte, Andrés Manuel
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Task manager | Spain |
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Didicescu, Sergiu Paul
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Backup | Romania |
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Resources from the Focus Group members:
EIP-AGRI related videos:
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New ways to deal with soil salinisation in farming
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Ana Marta Paz - presentation at EIP-AGRI seminar 'Healthy soils for Europe'
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Stephan Jung - presentation on the Operational Group ‘Desalination of greenhouse floors by halophytes’ at EIP-AGRI seminar 'Healthy soils for Europe'
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AGRI challenge: soil salinisation
/eip/agriculture/en/file/eip-agri-inspirational-video-agri-challenge-soil-0EIP-AGRI inspirational video: AGRI challenge: soil salinisation
