The Grassland Sciences Group is a vibrant and international working group at the Department of Environmental Systems Science at ETH Zurich and they are looking for a “reliable, enthusiastic and highly motivated doctoral student with a...
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On the 17th of January, the SUPER-G project organized a stakeholder webinar on the theme “Improving permanent grasslands for ecosystem services and biodiversity”. Well-managed permanent grasslands are of great importance for food production...
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The SUPER-G project is organising a Stakeholder webinar on January 17th, 2022. The webinar will approach the topic of “Improving Permanent Grasslands for ecosystem services and biodiversity”. Well-managed permanent grasslands are of...
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Sergei Schaub1,2,3, Robert Finger1,∗, Nina Buchmann2, Vera Steiner1 and Valentin H Klaus2 Abstract Globally, we face a dramatic biodiversity loss in agricultural systems as well as severe ecosystem degradation. In grasslands, higher biodiversity...
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On November 17, 2021 Professor Stypiński presented the lecture “Meadows and pastures in the protection of biodiversity” in Wloclawek, Poland, during the first part of workshops “The role of modern agriculture in creating...
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On November 16, 2021 there was the Co-Innovation workshop – French Farm Network in Normandy, France. There were a total of 61 participants consisting of 23 farmers, 12 advisors/agricultural group leader from CRAN or LBM, 1 journalist, 25...
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SUPER-G has recently published two public reports that can now be viewed on our website and our social media channels. One of the reports (Deliverable 2.3) summarises the main Farming Systems (FS) on Permanent Grassland (PG) in Europe (linked to...
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The H2020 SUPER-G project will participate in the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2021 with a presentation titled: ‘Creating sustainable rural spaces: understanding citizens’ perspectives of grassland landscapes and ‘ecosystem...
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Fernández-Habas et al. (2021) have published a paper on the assessment of pasture quality in permanent grasslands and how it’s essential for their conservation and management, as it can contribute to making real-time decisions for livestock...
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Covering 34% of the agricultural area in the European Union and around 60 million hectares in total, permanent grasslands are an important and integral part of European landscapes. Within SUPER-G we are trying to better understand how grassland...
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Representatives from farm networks in Northern Ireland, northern England and Normandy got together on the evening of Wednesday 23rd June to discuss the pros and cons of using multi-species swards. The discussion confirmed that farmers in...
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Open Access Government is a UK-based digital publication with a unique perspective, focusing on an interesting plethora of issues from physics to biology, economic development to agriculture, among many others. The bumper July 2021 edition of...
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