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POSTPONED: Seminar and exhibition: Green biorefinery - a Green deal for agriculture

News

Photo: Henning Thomsen, AU.

2020.04.01 | DCA

Building a cross-European framework for climate-smart sustainable agricultural soil management systems

24 countries join forces in the European Joint Programme EJP SOIL. The overall objective is to provide sustainable agricultural soil management solutions that contribute to key societal challenges including climate change and future food supply

Photo: Johannes Lund Jensen. The moment Johannes Lund Jensen received his PhD degree on Skype for Business.

2020.04.01 | People

Online PhD defence for the first time - it went brilliant

With just 11 audience members, four supervisors, two opponents, a spouse and two young children, Johannes Lund Jensen received his PhD degree as the first ever at the Department of Agroecology after completing his defence online.

Photo: Janne Hansen

2020.03.30 | Research

Computer model can determine nitrogen mineralisation of catch crops

Reduced nitrate leaching and improved plant nitrogen availability are among the benefits of catch crops. A new model built by researchers from Department of Agroecology can determine the mineralisation of catch crops, and when linked to an agroecosystems model, it allows improved estimated of nitrate leaching and nitrogen supply to following…

Mon 06 Apr
13:00-15:30 | Skype
PhD defence: Soil worms cause fast transport of water and nitrogen to field drainage systems.
David Nagy will defend his PhD on Monday 6 April 2020 - on Skype for Business.
Tue 28 Apr
17:00-20:00 | European Parliament, Brussels
POSTPONED - new date will be announced. Seminar and exhibition: Green biorefinery - a Green deal for agriculture
Producing sustainable soy protein alternatives and biobased products
Tue 02 Jun
12:00-14:00 | Aarhus
POSTPONED: Conference: MRFood2020
The 15th edition of the International Conference on the Applications of Magnetic Resonance in Food Science (MRFood2020) will be held June 8-11 2021 instead of June 2-5, 2020, as announced earlier, at Aarhus University, Denmark.
Thu 24 Sep
08:49-08:49 | Copenhagen
SEGES summit 2020: THINK Piglet Health & Nutrition
Experts from all over the world will attend the summit to discuss, share and learn more about how health, nutrition and management can improve the viability of piglets from hyperprolific sows. Deadline for abstract submission is 1st May 2020.

Research

DCA cooperates with research environments at the entire university. However, the following five departments have food and agriculture as a major focus area:

Policy support

Through an agreement with Ministry of Environment and Food of Denmark, the Danish Centre for Food and Agriculture (DCA) performs research-based consultancy for the ministry and relevant government agencies within agriculture, food and environment. DCA’s goal is to advises the ministry on how to produce healthy food of optimal quality, and meet the demand for bio-based energy and materials and an increasing focus on stewardship in relation to the environment, nature and climate.


Contact

Special Consultant Klaus Horsted
Phone: +4587157975
Email: klaus.horsted@dca.au.dk

Special Consultant Ulla Sonne Bertelsen
Phone: +4587157685
Email: usb@dca.au.dk

Special Consultant Lene Hegelund
Phone: +4587157441 / +4593508931   
Email: lene.hegelund@dca.au.dk

Visit AU Foulum

AU Foulum is part of Aarhus University and is home to most of the university’s research in food and agriculture. Research areas include plants, animals, food, organic farming, bioenergy, environment, climate, soil, genetics and technology.  

Read more about AU Foulum and how to visit the centre



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Revised 03.04.2020