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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Sophie Tindale from the University of Newcastle, a SUPER-G partner, participated in the 3rd ESP Europe Regional conference organized by the Ecosystem Services Partnership (ESP). This event took place in Tartu, Estonia from the 7-10 of June 2021...
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On the 7th of June, Paul Newell-Price, coordinator of the SUPER-G project, participated in a joint EEAP & FAO-CIHEAM conference themed “Mountains are agroecosystems for people“ where he presented the 1st Session: Farming systems and global...
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The EGF2021 Symposium, hosted by Universität Kassel, was held last week (17-19 May). With a special focus on sensing technologies, it addressed three main themes closely related to objectives of the SUPER-G project; “Biomass and quality...
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The SUPER-G project is hosting an open access Webinar series in June, to showcase some outputs from the project and contribute to discussions around policy making. Under the theme: Permanent Grasslands (PG) in Europe – policies, services, and...
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Work Package 5 (WP5) of the SUPER-G project will develop Decision Support Tools (DSTs) to assist farmers and policy makers to assess Ecosystem Service (ES) provision on Permanent Grassland (PG). Within WP5, as part of Task 5.1, we undertook a...
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The European Association of mountain areas (EuroMontana) has published a booklet of good management practices in mountain grasslands, gathered across 18 European countries, through OREKA MENDIAN, a seven-year project funded by the European...
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One aim of our WP3 research trials is to improve our understanding of trade-offs and synergies associated with the management of PG for Ecosystem service delivery in a wide range of contexts and socio-economic circumstances. In December 2020 and...
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The report on the topic “The effectiveness of policies promoting sustainable permanent grassland across five European countries (representing five biogeographic regions)” – developed under the Task 4.1c of the SUPER-G project – is now available...
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The SUPER-G Data Management Plan (DMP) is a key element of good data management. This DMP describes the data that will be acquired or produced during research; how the data will be managed, described, and stored, what standards will be used, and...
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In mid January 2021, there was a 1st Joint Conference of the EAAP Mountain Livestock Farming Group & FAO-CIHEAM Mountain Pastures Sub-Network on the topic “Mountains are agroecosystems for people“. On page 12 there is an article...
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