Conference detail

For any information concerning Soil Health: Current Status and Future Needs please contact:

Prof. Nikolaos Paranychianakis

E-mail: nparanychianakis@tuc.gr

The principal goal of the “Soil Health: Current Status and Future Needs” Conference is to addresses pressing challenges related to the land, such as the need for:

Climate change mitigation and adaption,

Prevention of desertification and land degradation,

Ensuring food security and

Transitioning into more sustainable and resilient to climate change agricultural systems.

Novel knowledge on these topics is expected to contribute to the successful implementation of ongoing initiatives in farming systems and specifically land neutrality, EU farm to Fork initiative and the European Green Strategy as well as on the successfully meet the SDG .

The conference aims to gather scientists, policy makers and stakeholders to exchange knowledge on soils management in a changing world with a focus on the latest developments in the field of soil health. The selection and adoption of agroecosystem management practices based on the principles of soil health will accelerate the transition of conventional agricultural systems into more sustainable ones contributing to the mitigation and adaptation to climate change.