Mørdre, Skuterud, Time, Vasshaglona (NIBIO)
Demonstration Site – Norway (Mørdre, Skuterud, Time, Vasshaglona)
Environmental monitoring and stakeholder engagement in Nordic agricultural settings.
In Norway, the demonstration site covers four representative agricultural areas: Mørdre, Skuterud, Time, and Vasshaglona, where the focus lies on integrating advanced environmental monitoring with participatory processes for sustainable resource management.
Main activities:
- Continuous monitoring of water quality and quantity, as well as climatic parameters (e.g., temperature, precipitation)
- Ongoing environmental modeling to analyze hydrological flows, nutrient balances, and soil dynamics (WP4)
- Stakeholder engagement through a pilot protocol (launched April 4, 2025) and workshops scheduled for autumn/winter 2025-2026 (WP5)
Objectives:
- Build a scientific database to support more sustainable agricultural practices in Nordic environments
- Promote a participatory approach to land management, strengthening dialogue between researchers, farmers, and local institutions
- Support impact assessment of agricultural activities on water and soil in climatically vulnerable contexts.
D.G.2 Nordic: explore novel approaches that especially account for significant or extreme weather events (precipitation and temperature) in reducing sediment, nutrients, and pesticide losses under different climatic regimes and agricultural systems in the Nordic region (including the Baltic sea).
D.G.2 Nordic: explore novel approaches that especially account for significant or extreme weather events (precipitation and temperature) in reducing sediment, nutrients, and pesticide losses under different climatic regimes and agricultural systems in the Nordic region (including the Baltic sea).
D.G.7.: improve smart agriculture novel solutions towards irrigation water management and nitrogen leaching mitigation
D.G.6.: co-develop, improve, adapt, and test current and novel agricultural (soil, water, nutrient) management technologies and solutions, evolve monitoring technologies and integrated solutions, and adapt, calibrate, and validate the developed tools, models, and systems
D.G.4.: create a testbed for the innovative solutions and Integrate the network of experimental agricultural watersheds of the Government of Navarra.
D.G.5.: develop a monitoring system regarding the ground and surface water status in different scenarios and identify, adapt and evaluate effective agronomical practices so that the mitigation strategies can be efficiently designed and applied
D.G.3: test and generate novel insights for zero pollution in Ukraine under climate change in the post-war recovery.
D.G.1. East-Med: Identify pathways to transform state-of-the-art solutions into traditional practices for sustainable agriculture and water conservation in water-scarce coastal Mediterranean basins facing multiple challenges.
