The Impact of Subsoil Management on the Delivery of Ecosystem Services

Publication: Report
Citation: Ittner, S., Gerdes, H., Athmann, M., Bauke, S. L., Gocke, M., Guigue, J., Jaiswal, S., Kautz, T., Schmittmann, O., Schulz, S., Seidel, S. (2020). The impact of subsoil management on the delivery of ecosystem services. BonaRes Series. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.20387/bonares-bszh-qbkn

Ittner, S., Gerdes, H., Athmann, M., Bauke, S. L., Gocke, M., Guigue, J., Jaiswal, S., Kautz, T., Schmittmann, O., Schulz, S., Seidel, S. (2020). The impact of subsoil management on the delivery of ecosystem services. BonaRes Series. https://doi.org/10.20387/bonares-bszh-qbkn

An Acceptance Analysis of Subsoil Amelioration Amongst Agricultural Actors in Two Regions in Germany

Year 2021

Event:Workshop

In order to determine the acceptance of measures to enhance the subsoil in agriculture, Ecologic Institute organised two stakeholder workshops in North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany) in March 2020. The first workshop took place on 2 March in Bad Sassendorf (near Soest) and the second on 3 March in Kleve. Both were part of the BonaRes project "Soil³ – Sustainable Subsoil Management", funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research.

Better Use of Deep Soil Layers in Agriculture as Preparation for Dry Periods

An acceptance analysis of measures to enhance the subsoil

2 March 2020
Bad Sassendorf, Kleve, Germany

Event:Workshop

In June 2019, the stakeholder workshop "Optimal soil management to ensure yield capacity & acceptance analysis of measures to upgrade the subsoil" of the BMBF-funded BonaRes project "Soil³ – Sustainable Subsoil Management" took place in Moltzow (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania). This workshop is part of a series of workshops with the aim to discuss and gather the prevailing opinions on subsoil management measures with the help of an acceptance analysis. Ecologic Institute researchers discussed with farmers and other ecological actors under which conditions they would implement or support these measures.

Optimal Soil Management to Ensure Yield Capacity

18 June 2019
Moltzow, Germany

Event:Workshop

In January 2019, the stakeholder workshop "Using the Subsoil to Better Prepare for Droughts – An Acceptance Analysis of Measures to Enhance the Subsoil" of the BMBF-funded BonaRes project "Soil³ – Sustainable Subsoil Management" took place in Bonn. The aim of the workshop was to discuss the prevailing opinions on subsoil management measures. Ecologic Institute researchers discussed with farmers and other ecological actors under which conditions they would implement or support these measures. The protocol is available for download.

Using the Subsoil to Be Better Prepared for Droughts – An Acceptance Analysis of Measures to Upgrade the Subsoil

15 January 2019
Bonn, Germany

Presentation:Speech

The BONARES conference "Soil as a Sustainable Resource" took place in Berlin from 26 to 28 February 2018. Ecologic Institute staff attended the conference and presented the interim results of the Soil³ project – Sustainable Subsoil Management. Dr. Ana Frelih-Larsen, Senior Fellow at Ecologic Institute, gave a presentation on "Social acceptance of measures to improve the subsoil in German agriculture".

The Invisible Subsoil: Social acceptance of measures to improve the subsoil in agriculture

28 February 2018
Ana Frelih-Larsen

Project

Fertile soils are an indispensable resource for agriculture and the Bioeconomy as a whole. Subsoils contain a major part of the nutrients essential for plants, a resource potential that has thus far not yet been fully understood nor used. In order to harness this untapped potential, the Soil³ project examines the subsoil processes and application of alternative subsoil management measures. The Ecologic Institute will conduct research on the costs, benefits and social acceptance of these measures.

Sustainable Subsoil Management as Part of the Bioeconomy (Soil³)

Oct 2015 - Jan 2025

Language: English
Authorship: Sophie Ittner

Holger Gerdes

Miriam Athmann

Sara Luise Bauke

Martina Gocke

Julien Guigue

Sanjjay Jaiswal

Timo Kautz

Oliver Schmittmann

Stefanie Schulz

Sabine Seidel
Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Germany
Published by: Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Germany
Year: 2020
Dimension: 28 pp.
DOI: 10.20387/bonares-bszh-qbkn
Project: Sustainable Subsoil Management as Part of the Bioeconomy (Soil³)
Project ID: 3206
Table of contents: Click to show full table of contents

1 Introduction
1.1 Subsoil management
1.2 Scope of the analysis
2 Methods
2.1 Linking subsoil to the delivery of ecosystem services – expert survey
2.2 Data to assess changes of ecosystem services
3 Results
3.1 Relevance of the subsoil for the delivery of ecosystem services
3.2 Defining ecosystem services and related indicators
3.3 Changes in ecosystem services resulting from subsoil management
4 Discussion and Outlook
Acknowledgment
References
ANNEX 1
Keywords: Adaptation

Agriculture