Best4Soil – A network of practitioners, for sharing knowledge on prevention and reduction of soil borne diseases
Healthy soils are of major importance for the future of the European horticultural and agricultural crop production. Especially in intensive production systems, soil borne diseases are a major factor with a negative impact on soil health. Newly developed best practices and sound crop rotations permit to maintain, improve or re-establish soil health in Europe. Best4Soil aims to build a community of practice network across Europe by inter-connecting growers, advisers, educators and researchers. This network promotes knowledge ready for practice on four best practices (compost, green manure, anaerobic disinfestation, biosolarisation) for the control of soil-borne diseases. The main objective of the Best4Soil thematic network is to maintain, improve or re-establish soil health in Europe. The project provides open-access databases with information on the range of pathogens and nematodes that affect vegetable, arable and cover crops to help practitioners to build appropriate crop rotations and innovative control strategies. Best4Soil has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Programme
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Project coordination
Harm Brinks, Delphy, h.brinks(at)delphy.nl
Project duration
2018 to 2021