Catalogue of soil restoration and fertilizations strategies across EU and China

One of the main outputs of the TUdi project is a catalogue of strategies and measures for improving soil quality. This document (alone or in combination with other project outputs) serves farmers to find suitable methods and measures for improving the quality of their soil.

This catalogue aims to present soil restoration and fertilization strategies with feedback from stakeholders in the EU and China. The catalogue consists of a list of practices soil degradation processes. The processes were defined with a multidisciplinary approach by scientists from different fields (soil physics, hydrology, plant and environmental sciences, nutrient management and agronomy) and they are described individually in big detail.

A list of measures and strategies that can be used to eliminate these degradation processes is presented. For individual measures, the catalogue contains a separate chapter with a detailed description of each measure. These chapters describe the principle of the methods/measures, the conditions for their implementation and the importance of individual measures in terms of individual degradation processes. There are also references to appropriate literature at the end of each chapter.

The aim of the catalogue is to support farmers in activities leading to soil improvement. For this reason, the catalogue includes a chapter dealing with financial support tools in individual countries cooperating within the TUdi project. A separate chapter is also devoted to legislative regulations and rules related to the issue of soil degradation and protection.

Research has been supported by project H2020 – TUdi (https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101000224)