Deliverables

Organic farming imposes severe restrictions on the use of fertilisers. For example, it strictly excludes the use of easily soluble mineral fertlisers. Animal-based fertilisers, such as products produced from waste and/or by-products from fishery, fish and seafood processing as well as aquaculture are a valuable source of Nitrogen, Phosphorous and Potassium, playing a crucial role in crop nutrition. They can be seen as promising candidates for fertilising products providing the required nutrients, while keeping the concept of sustainability and circularity at core. With the aim of determining whether the 8 bio-based fertilisers (BBF) developed throughout Sea2Land may finally also be used in organic farming, FiBL Europe pursued an evaluation on their compliance with the EU organic legislation. The evaluation was mainly based on documentation provided by the project partners in charge of the development of the relevant products.

The deliverable presents the characteristics of 26 potential biobased fertiliser (BBF) products generated in WP3, WP4 and Chile including organic fertilisers, (nonmicrobial) plant biostimulants, soil improver/growing media and liming material. Standardized analytical methods were used to determine the parameters required by the Regulation (EU) 2019/1009, such as moisture and organic matter content, nutrients, heavy metals and pathogens.

In this deliverable (D5.3) entitled Future evolution of the produced fertilizers effectiveness, the BBFs performance is studied under different climatic scenarios. To develop effective management strategies, in-depth evaluations of BBFs nutrient value and environmental performance under both average weather conditions and future climatic scenarios across Europe has been carried out. This provides an overview of expected values as well as temporal and spatial variability in BBFs performance, both within and beyond Europe. Additionally, this deliverable offers initial insights into potential effects under projected climate change scenarios.

The Ecotron trial evaluated the agronomic performance and the environmental impact of four bio-based fertilisers (BBFs) compared to a synthetic fertilizer (SYN) under a historic reference and a future RCP8.5 climate scenario.

Deliverable 5.1 (D5.1) presents the agronomic performance of biobased fertilizers (BBFs) and shell residues in pot and field trials.

Within SEA2LAND project, and more specifically in WP3, side-streams from fishery and fish and shellfish processing by-products or side-streams were used as raw materials to produce intermediate products suitable for being formulated into biobased fertilisers (BBF). The present document includes the final version of the technical data sheets of finally selected intermediate ingredients and validates BBFs produced from and fish and shellfish processing by-products or side-streams in three different regions, the Baltic Sea, the Cantabrian Sea and the Adriatic Sea.

Within H2020 in SEA2LAND project, side-streams from fishery and fish and shellfish processing by-products or side-streams will be used as raw materials to produce intermediate products suitable for being formulated into biobased fertilisers. The present document describes the technical specifications of the protein hydrolysates developed at pilot scale that have been obtained from fish viscera from fish processing industries in the Cantabrian Sea pilot study and the hydrolysates from the organic fraction of discarded molluscs combined with fish processing by-products in the Adriatic case study. Two procedures have been hereby employed wit: enzymatic hydrolysis and acid autolysis (fish viscera).

This deliverable consists of a map viewer aimed at providing quick and understandable information on soil nutrient balances in Europe. It is mainly a software that allows to view, select and download soil nutrient maps from all over Europe.
The methodology for the construction of these maps is also uploaded to the host and linked in the map viewer and can be checked to see how the maps have been constructed.

The present Minutes Report was generated in order to provide an overview of the 4th SEA2LAND General Assembly Meeting. Certain technical parts were discussed during the meeting and for further information, contact the project coordinator.