HELCOM - 13. spotkanie Grupy ds. Zrównoważonych Praktyk Rolniczych

On Monday, 19th of April, 14–16 CET, was the opportunity to join the webinar to hear some answers to the following questions:

• What should be done on farms to ensure sustainable nutrient management?


• And how could policies help us get there?

On the agenda, among other things, farm and regional scale recommendations, a regionwide snapshot of the current situation, EU Commission presentation of the Farm Sustainability Tool for Nutrients.

The webinar was organized by the Interreg platform project SuMaNu – Sustainable Manure and Nutrient Management for reduction of nutrient loss in the Baltic Sea Region. This EUSBSR flagship project draws from 10 years of research and development in different international projects to produce policy recommendations and provide a fuller picture of a what sustainable nutrient management requires on different levels.



Agenda
14.00 Welcome and introductions
- Ms. Minna Sarvi, Luke – Natural Resources Institute, Finland

14.05 Practises and technologies for sustainable nutrient management
- Dr. Sari Luostarinen, Luke – Natural Resources Institute, Finland

14.20 Policy recommendations to improve the sustainability of manure and nutrient management in the BSR
- Ms. Minna Sarvi, Luke – Natural Resources Institute, Finland

14:45 FaST Tool and implementing sustainable nutrient management methods
- Mr. Isidro Campos-Rodriguez, DG Agri, European Commission
- Short Q&A session about FaST (Farm Sustainability Tool for nutrients)

15.10 Panel discussion about the improvement potential of sustainable nutrient management
- Moderator: Dr. Erik Sindhöj, RISE – Research Institutes of Sweden

Panelists:

Isidro Campos-Rodriguez, DG Agri, European Commission
Sonja Pyykkönen, the Finnish Ministry of Environment
Ieva Branicka, the Latvian Ministry of Agriculture
Leif Knudsen, SEGES, Denmark
Per-Göran Sigfridsson, farmer and founder of a biogas cooperative, Sweden

15.55 Closing remarks