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High content of herbicide residues in organic fertilizers

Published: 20.12.2020 (older than 5 years)

This summer, hobby growers in Norway and Sweden experienced that their tomato and cucumber plants were not growing well. Pyralid herbicides in organic fertilizers were identified as a possible cause.

Coping with challenges in Kenyan biofuel project: First flooding, then COVID-19

Published: 17.12.2020 (older than 5 years)

This Biofuel4Kenya-project has faced unexpected risks this year; first a major flooding, followed by Covid-19 putting local communities in a highly vulnerable state.

InnovAfrica Food recipe sharing_Laifolo Dakishoni

Interdisciplinary innovations boosting food security in Africa

Published: 16.12.2020 (older than 5 years)

InnovAfrica is an ambitious project, focusing on sustainable agriculture to improve food and nutritional security in Africa.

Keep your soils alive

Published: 04.12.2020 (older than 5 years)

This year’s World Soil Day is dedicated to the theme “Keep soil alive, protect soil biodiversity” – a key element of the Soil-improving Cropping Systems that are being tested as part of the SoilCare project.

Figures show Norwegian self-sufficiency

Published: 15.05.2020 (older than 5 years)

In 2019, the self-sufficiency ratio, or the amount of domestic food consumption calculated as caloric intake, was 43%. If we exclude fish, the ratio is 42%. Adjusted for imported feed concentrate, it falls to 34%. In the last 10 years, it has varied from 41% to 48%.

"Worms in apples" throughout the country

Published: 05.11.2020 (older than 5 years)

A shortage of rowanberries has caused apple fruit moths to attack apple trees all over the country in 2020. Not since 1994 have there been such extensive attacks — with up to 100% of crops being damaged in many orchards.

Catch crops and mulch benefit environment

Published: 30.10.2020 (older than 5 years)

Catch crops and mulch introduced in vegetable cropping systems could help to keep nutrients in the soil, improve soil structure, inhibit weeds and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

More bacterial diseases discovered in trees

Published: 23.10.2020 (older than 5 years)

Bacterial diseases appear to be an increasing problem for trees in Norway, according to a new NIBIO report on forest health.

How to tackle dollar spot disease on golf courses

Published: 19.10.2020 (older than 5 years)

Dollar spot is a foliar turfgrass disease that leads to uneven playing surfaces on golf courses around the world. It is a fungal disease that appears like small, yellow and round spots, the size of American dollar coins.

Sustainable bioeconomy vital for freshwater resources

Published: 15.10.2020 (older than 5 years)

If the bioeconomy with its utilisation of renewable land-based biomass does not develop in a sustainable way, the alterations of the rural landscape, in combination with expected climate change, will seriously affect our freshwater resources.

Norway's first CRISPR food plant

Published: 14.10.2020 (older than 5 years)

Researchers at NIBIO have succeeded in creating Norway's first gene-edited food plants. The researchers used the CRISPR method to gene-edit strawberries to make them more resistant.

Sustainable agriculture technologies on a rise among African smallholders

Published: 01.10.2020 (older than 5 years)

A steadily increasing number of African smallholders are adopting sustainable agriculture technologies - one of the main objectives in the InnovAfrica project. In its mid-term review, EU’s external evaluation committee acknowledged the delivery of excellent results so far, with significant immediate or potential impact in the project’s six African case study countries.

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