Facing up to the phosphorus challenge (original) (raw)
Løes, Anne-Kristin; Cooper, Julia and Gascoyne, Kate (2015) Facing up to the phosphorus challenge.Organic Farming magazine of Soil Association, UK, September 2015 (2), pp. 36-37.
Summary in the original language of the document
The loss of phosphorus in exported products is a concern for all organic producers. The team of CORE Organic Project "Improve-P" assess attitudes to alternative phosphorus fertilisers among organic stakeholders. This paper reports on results collected via a questionnaire at the National Soil Symposium in Solihull, UK November 2014. 58 respondents showed a large interest in recycled P fertilisers, e.g. derived from human urine. One respondent
who summed up the workshop in this way: Ultimately for sustainability we have to replace P, lost off farm but balance between purity and recycling is a difficult one. We
need to focus on making best use of P reserves in soil, for example deep-rooting green manures, efficient composting, P
scavenging plants, that is, getting more P into the organic fraction and sourcing less contaminated sources of P.
| EPrint Type: | Newspaper or magazine article |
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| Keywords: | Recycling, fertilisers, phosphorus, P, UK, Improve P, CORE Organic |
| Subjects: | Crop husbandry > Composting and manuring Food systems > Recycling, balancing and resource management |
| Research affiliation: | European Union > CORE Organic > CORE Organic II > IMPROVE-P Norway > Bioforsk - Norwegian Institute for Agriculture and Environmental Research > Bioforsk Organic Food and Farming Division UK > Univ. Newcastle |
| Related Links: | https://improve-p.uni-hohenheim.de/ |
| Deposited By: | Løes, Anne-Kristin |
| ID Code: | 29379 |
| Deposited On: | 09 Oct 2015 12:42 |
| Last Modified: | 06 Oct 2016 06:12 |
| Document Language: | English |
| Status: | Published |
| Refereed: | Peer-reviewed and accepted |
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