Projects

Pollination in fruit orchards - effects of floral diversity and pesticides on pollinating insects

The EU directive 2009/128/EC makes integrated pest management mandatory for growers. This also includes conserving and facilitating important “beneficial organisms” by evaluating needs for actions against pests, limit the use of pesticides and facilitating habitats for these organisms. Pollinating insects is a very important group among these organisms, and in the latter years, more and more studies have shown a decline in pollinating insects.

BalanC - The impact of increasing spruce plantation area on the carbon balance of forests in Western Norway

Measures to increase sustainability in Norwegian vegetable production.

Reduced use of herbicides and improved soil conditions - using false seedbed and catch crops.

Grazecarb. Sustainable livestock systems: reducing GHG emissions and improving production efficiency in grazing sheep

Primary and secondary objectives
The primary objective is to measure in vivo methane (CH4) emission from dairy sheep at pasture
Secondary objectives are:
- To obtain algorithms that can be used in LCA studies to improve estimations of enteric CH4 emissions from grazing sheep
- To define key factors to be targeted to reduce CH4 emissions in grazing sheep
- To contribute to literature on CH4 estimations in grazing animals with methods based on markers