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How are farmers in the Oudlandpolder region dealing with increased saline conditions?
23 June 2021The Oudlandpolder region is the oldest polder region in Flanders, in which parts are protected by the habitat-directive as salty wetlands and pastures. Farmers in that part of the region are therefore…
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Film about SalFar featured on the German TV channel SAT1
23 June 2021Last month, a three minute long film about Ökowerk Emden’s work related to SalFar was featured on the German TV channel SAT1.
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Regional Business Strategies will lead to local activities and mutual learning
23 March 2021The aim of the SalFar business strategies is to paint a picture of the political framework under which the innovative farmers and food producers are working. Further, the aim is to make it operational…
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New Toolkit for Quality Documentation
23 March 2021Saline farmed foods may differ from foods grown in non-salty soil due to plant physiology. With sensory analysis you can learn how consumers rate your products and how they compare to other products
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SalFar field trials featured in BBC World’s ‘Follow The Food’
23 March 2021BBC World’s ‘Follow The Food’ visited Iain Gould, Senior Lecturer in Soil Science at the University of Lincoln and Lincolnshire Farmer, David Hoyles, who have been working together on a saline irrigat…
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Studying the effectiveness of a bladderwrack-based fertilizer
22 March 2021As part of the SalFar project, Ökowerk Emden has developed a fertilizer called “Hoorn-Power” that consists largely of residual materials from the sea. The fertilizer was successfully tested on grass c…
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Students conducting research on aspects of saline agriculture
22 March 2021For the next three months, six students from the VU University in Amsterdam will be doing research on economic, producer, and consumer perspectives of saline agriculture.
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Test fields with under-soil irrigation tubes established in the Northern Netherlands
17 March 2021In October 2019, the first under-soil irrigation tubes were installed at SPNA’s test field in cooperation with the lead partner province of Groningen. With this, the realisation of the desired saliniz…
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Press release: The Economic Impacts of Salinization Exceeds half a billion EURO a year in Europe alone – and the Cost is Projected to Rise with the Tides
04 January 2021There is an urgent need to strengthen systems and mechanisms for monitoring soil salinity and associated risks. This is one of the conclusions in the ”Baseline Study Report”, published by the Universi…
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Three new Danish partners join SalFar
16 December 2020Food & Bio Cluster Denmark, SAGRO and Aarhus University have joined the project. Together the Danish partners will work on tasks related to the work package called “Eco-innovative food production and …
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