Resolving the Global Nitrogen Dilemma - TUdi at the 2024 N Workshop

Organised by a committee from Aarhus University, and hosted there, the international N Workshop spanned over 5 days (17-21 June 2024) and served as an opportunity to bring together contributions from researchers around the world. This year’s edition centred around resolving the global nitrogen dilemma: how to balance the need to increase nitrogen inputs for crop productivity and human nutrition while reducing nitrogen losses that contribute to environmental pollution and pose threats to food security and ecosystem health.

The program of the event was divided into six regular and four special sessions, together with seven interesting keynotes and two roundtables. 

The regular sessions were on the following topics: 

• How to increase nitrogen use efficiency

• Reducing nitrogen losses 

• Nitrogen recycling 

• Incentives for good nitrogen management 

• Food systems 

• Livestock in agricultural systems from a nitrogen perspective 

Whilst the special sessions were in addition to oral communications and poster presentations, they covered the topics of: 

• Nitrogen communications 

• Nitrogen in organic farming 

• 19th TFRN meeting 

• Future Design Seminar 

TUdi partners Octavian Chiriac and Andrea Alpigiano, from the Department of Agriculture, Forest and Food Sciences (DISAFA) of the Univerisity of Turin presented posters on the topics of “Factors influencing nitrogen derived from soil organic matter mineralisation: results from a long-term experiment” and “Nitrogen fertiliser input reduction threats soil fertility in a medium-term experiment in NW Italy”.