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Analysis of agricultural and environmental measures in the context of agricultural water conservation and of the EU Water Framework Directive in the Weser river basin
Project
Project code: TI-LR-08-PID388
Contract period: 01.03.2013
- 30.09.2014
Purpose of research: Applied research
Many water bodies in the Weser River Basin do not yet meet the requirements of the Water Framework Directive. In the project AGRUM + we analyze nutrient inputs into water bodies and what is necessary to reduce these from the view of agriculture. Diffuse nutrient inputs from agriculture stress water quality conditions. Mineral fertilizers, intensive livestock production and accompanied manure lead to a large amount of nitrogen surpluses from agriculture. These can reach groundwater and surface water via soil. The European Water Framework Directive aims to achieve good qualitative and quantitative status of al water bodies until 2015, in some exceptional cases until 2021 or 2027. In the AGRUM + Weser project we analyze the questions, where, if and how the nutrient targets of the Water Framework Directive can be achieved for the Weser River Basin.
Section overview
Subjects
- Plant Nutrition
- Agricultural hydrology
Framework programme
Funding programme
- Funding of Agricultural Research by the Ministry of Food, Agriculture, and Consumer Protection Lower Saxony
- Funding by the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen
- Funding of Agricultural Research by the Hessian Ministry for the Environment, Climate Change, Agriculture and Consumer Protection
- Individual projects of the Ministry for Agriculture and Consumer Protection North Rhine-Westphalia
- Funding through Thuringian Ministry of Infrastructure and Agriculture
- Funding of Agricultural Research by the Ministry of Environment, Agriculture and Energy of Saxony-Anhalt
Excutive institution
Participating institutions
Funding institution
- Ministry of Food, Agriculture, and Consumer Protection, Lower Saxony
- Free Hanseatic City Bremen
- Hessian Ministry for the Environment, Climate Change, Agriculture and Consumer Protection
- Ministry for Agriculture and Consumer Affairs of the German State of North Rhine-Westphalia
- Thuringian Ministry for Infrastructure and Agriculture
- Ministry of Enviroment, Agriculture and Energy of Saxony-Anhalt
Project management agencies
- Ministry of Food, Agriculture, and Consumer Protection, Lower Saxony (ML)
- Free Hanseatic City Bremen
- Hessian Ministry for the Environment, Climate Change, Agriculture and Consumer Protection (HMUKLV)
- Ministry for Agriculture and Consumer Affairs of the German State of North Rhine-Westphalia (MLV)
- Thuringian Ministry for Infrastructure and Agriculture (TMIL)
- Ministry of Enviroment, Agriculture and Energy of Saxony-Anhalt (MULE)