Project

Nutrient Management and Nutrient Recovery Thematic Network

Acronym
NUTRIMAN
Code
41U02318
Duration
01 October 2018 → 30 September 2021
Funding
European funding: framework programme
Promotor
Research disciplines
  • Agricultural and food sciences
    • Other agriculture, forestry, fisheries and allied sciences not elsewhere classified
Keywords
agriculture sustainability duurzaamheid
Other information
 
Project description

Agriculture and food industry having a high dependence on resources in their production and striving for longterm sustainability. In this context there is an urgent need to optimise resource use and smooth the transition to a knowledgedriven agriculture. The NUTRIMAN is a Nitrogen and Phosphorus thematic network compiling knowledge “ready for practice” for such recovered product applications, practices and technologies, interconnecting applied science and industrial practice, for the user interest and benefits of the agricultural practitioners. There is an urgent need to spread knowledge and network information towards agricultural practitioners about the insufficiently exploited N/P recovery innovative research results (technologies, products, practices). The project objective is to improve the exploitation of the N/P nutrient management/recovery potential for the ready for practice cases not sufficiently known by practitioners. Our action will open new opportunities for farmers to develop connections between applied researches with practical usefulness results and farming practice in the priority area of nutrient management and nutrient recovery. Uses a bottom-up approach to identify incentives and bottlenecks for adoption and to prioritise between technologies/products and will ensure larger willingness to adopt innovations and improve multiplicator effects. Large scale take up of the recovered N/P innovative fertilisers targeted, produced from unexploited resources of organic or secondary raw materials in line with the circular economy model, and economical/ environmental efficiently used by farmers. Effective dissemination and exploitation promoted by multilingual web platform, other communications and best practice field demonstrations for farmers. This action is contributing to the successful deployment of the vast reservoir of existing scientific/practical knowledge on the N/P recovery theme, including multi lingual abstracts in EIP-AGRI format.

 
Role of Ghent University
Ghent University will translate proven scientific research on the replacement of mineral fertilisers by digestate derived biofertilisers to farmers and practically implement this at the farm.