2021 THE XXXI EURAGRI CONFERENCE

The XXXI EURAGRI Conference was held as online event at MED, University of Évora, Portugal 27-28 September 2021.

PROGRAMME

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PRESENTATIONS

Session 1: Introduction to theme

• Kerstin Rosenow, DG-AGRI EU-Research on soils and the mission concept
• Cees Veerman, Chair EU mission ‘Soil-Health and Food’ Research Mission in the area of Soil-Health and Food: Towards healthy soils in the EU by 2030
• Fleur Marchand, ILVO How to engage the farming community and society – Living labs

Session 2: Ecosystem services – living soils in living landscapes

• Else Bünemann, FiBl The multifunctionality of soils – who defines soil value?
• David Wall, Teagasc Soil quality – between knowledge and practice
• Bridget Emmett, UKCEH Monitoring and the question of relevant and meaningful indicators

Session 3: Sustainable agriculture in new clothes -Agro ecology and regenerative agriculture

• Gottlieb Basch MED Sustainable agriculture: Do we agree what it is?
• Ben Taylor-Davies, Regenben farm Regenerative ag approach- a case study
• Sandrine Petit-Michaut, INRAE AE-approach- a case study
• Antonia Wanner & Pascal Chapot, Nestlé Working WITH the farmers – Nestlé’s approach to regenerative agriculture
• James Moran, GMIT Up-take and out-scaling – how to make it happen?

Session 4: Breakout session

Laure Latruffe, INRAE Why are indicators necessary and for which purpose? 
Andrea Furlan, DG-AGRI What indicators do we need and who defines them – CAP?
Pedro Atalaya, farmer How to achieve up-take and out-scale? 
Isabel Ferraz de Oliveira, Universidade de Évora How to monitor up-take? Who is setting up the indicator system and using it?