UK-Finland Sustainability Knowledge Exchange 19-21 October 2020

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Nils Borchard
Accelerated global warming
overstretches adaptation
capacity of agricultural systems

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Soils and agro-ecological zone
Lilja et al 2009
Podzols /
Leptosols
Histosols
Histosols /
Posdzols
Combisols /
Posdzols
Faba bean
Caraway
Pea
Oat
Barley
Rapeseed
Rye
Wheat

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HumanSoil
Food
Plant

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Time (year)2000 21002050
40 km / 100yrs
upto5millkm2
Discrepancy;
call for action
Areal gain in agriculturally feasible climate
Boreal forest
adaptation
King et al. 2018
Genetics
Plant
Farm
Catchment
Challenges I: Northward shift

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Challenges II:
Water
management
Peltonen-Sainio et al 2020

6. Agricultural services and products
Customer services Stationary services (e.g. natural
plant resources
Extension services and rural
development
Soilscience,fertilizer,
soilamendments
Plantprotection
Carbon,water,and
nutrientmodelling
Grasslandsystemsand
agro-ecologicalfarming
systems
Plantgeneticsandplant
properties
Technologyinplant
production
Research,Developmentand
ImplementationMost relevant research areas

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Collaborative projects
SoilDiverAgro => Soil diversity for sustainable
agriculture
Lex4Bio => Optimized bio-based fertilizers
EcoStack => Agro-ecology for sustainable
agriculture
EJP SOIL => Sustainable and climate-smart soil
management
SustInAfrica => Sustainable agriculture and smart
pest insect management

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What next?
Research area Aim
Soil micorbiome and management • Reduce GHG emissions
• Enhancing nutrient use efficiency
Peat soils • Reduce GHG emissions
Biobased fertilizers • Reduce nutrient losses
Pest management and plant genetics • Manage alien species and
emerging pests
• Develop smart IPM (forecasting)
systems
• Resistant crops
Agro-ecology and grassland
management
• Reduce use of pesticides
• Enhancing the ecosystems capacity
to deliver ecosystem services
ICT and data science • Cross-cutting topic

9. Thank you!