The Chamber of Agriculture and Forestry of Slovenia (CAFS) and the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food (MAFF) organised a consultation of the Public Agricultural Advisory Service and an event of the European Innovation Partnership (EIP) in Bled, entitled »Soil, our irreplaceable resource«. The two-day event, which took place on 18 and 19 November, also featured two lectures by Dr Borut Vrščaj, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Environmental Protection.
During the event, many interesting and useful topics were presented, ranging from the presentation of the EU Mission “A Soil Deal for Europe”, the European Research Programme on Agricultural Soil Quality, the importance of agricultural land protection to ensure food security in Slovenia, the monitoring system for agricultural soils in Slovenia, to the Soil Monitoring and Resilience Directive. Multiannual and pilot projects, currently in progress or already completed, aimed at preserving healthy soils and conservation tillage practices were presented, and two round tables were held to transfer innovative and practical solutions into general practice.
In his opening lecture on the second day of the event, Dr Borut Vrščaj presented soil as an irreplaceable and non-renewable natural resource. In the second lecture, dedicated to the presentation of the Interreg project Links4Soils, he highlighted the key characteristic of soils, their fertility and the extremely long list of ecosystem services provided by soils.
More about the events and the content of the consultation can be found in the report by Assis. Katja Črnec.
