Balancing production and environment
Informations
- Funding country
Norway- Acronym
- -
- URL
- -
- Start date
- 1/1/2022
- End date
- 12/31/2025
- Budget
- 659,034 EUR
Fundings
| Name | Role | Start | End | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sustainable Research and Innovation in Food and Bio-based Industries | Grant | - | - | 659,033 EUR |
Abstract
The PROENV project (balancing PROduction and ENVironment) will explore the impact of land spare and land share approaches to balance the impact of food-production while preserving ecosystem services. In the land spare approach, the landscape is divided into areas with intensive agriculture, and areas of no agriculture. The latter areas are to compensate and provide other ecosystem services that may suffer in intensive-only areas. In the land share approach the intensity is limited in the whole area. This results in a less partitioned landscape, where shared land provides all ecosystem services including agriculture. Organic or agroecological methods are often relevant. The comparison of methods provides a framework to decide if the balance between production and other ecosystem services is best achieved using either of the two methods or a mixed approach for a particular region. We will adapt existing software for improved data-modelling of manure N utilization at field, farm and regional scales and reduce nitrogen losses from manure. The tool was developed for use in a specific geographic region. We will adapt the modelling capacities for use in multiple regions in Europe. PROENV will gather stakeholders (farmer’s organisations and environmental regulators) internationally and locally for dialogue meetings to uncover practical and legal barriers to optimized resource utilization. The results will be presented in public webinars. In addition to scientific articles in peer reviewed journals, results will be presented in short, targeted videos and popular articles. ProEnv has partners from Denmark (Lead), Spain, Italy, and Norway. The Norwegian partners will mainly work on Farm-scale measures, exploring the role of intensification on GHG emissions, energy consumption, nutrient balance, biodiversity and economy. Intensification is defined as increased purchase of nutrients and energy on a farm-level. A PhD study in systems analysis and modelling will be central.