During our recent plenary meeting in Ljubljana, Slovenia, we met with Toni Kukenberger, an organic dairy farmer. In this video, he explains how his farm became organic and transitioned away from pesticide reliance. He provides advice for other farmers considering doing the same and shares insights about his farming enterprise which produces milk, cheese and yoghurt.

We also spoke with Gregor Zabukovec, an organic livestock farmer in Slovenia gives an overview of why they decided to transition away from pesticide use and into organic farming. He also shares advice for farmers considering a similar transition and explains how the government could better support sustainable farming.

 

The SPRINT consortium has a new paper published in PLOS ONE. Here they describe in detail the study protocol that has been used for the collection of the samples in WP2 (Field Campaign) adressing all sampling matrixes and sampling protocols. Click for the full article on the title below!

"Collection of human and environmental data on pesticide use in Europe and Argentina: Field study protocol for the SPRINT project"


Visualization of the Case Study Sites across Europe and Argentina
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Blue on the map = Northern Europe, Green = Central Europe, Red = Southern Europe. 
Italian and French CSS have no livestock. CSS 2 (Portugal) and CSS 9 (Netherlands) are
reference CSS for modelling. At these reference locations, additional water, sediment 
and air samples will be collected

Meet our work package leaders! In the videos below, WP leaders present the main objectives of their respective work packages. For now, Judith Nathanail (WP1), Abdallah Alaoui (WP2), Paul Scheepers (WP3) and Jane Mills (WP8), will tell you all about their respective Work Packages. More WP leaders will follow in the coming weeks!

 

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Based on extensive research, a group of leading scientists have argued that the maximum allowed residue levels of glyphosate, a commonly used pesticide, should be lowered. This reduction would lessen the damage to our gut bacteria (microbiomes) and our health.