The mitigation measures decreasing the runoff of solid matter and nutrients from field cultivation can be divided into measures taken on the field, at the edge of the field and outside the field. As for the measures taken on the fields, fertilization ..
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Here you can find English summaries of two studies that were conducted in order to compare the agri-environment payment systems of 6-10 EU countries with each other and with the Finnish system. The first report first gives an overview of agr ..
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Agro-environment issues in the Baltic Sea Region were high on the agenda at the Annual meeting of the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region Priority Area 9 and the consequent Rural Development Programme seminar in Helsinki on 27-29 September. I ..
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Baltic Compass Work Package 6, “Governance and policy adaptation” has chosen several case studies in order to understand how agri-environmental measures, investments and assessment procedures, meet the multi-functional demands manifes ..
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Agricultural measures to decrease nutrient loads to the Baltic Sea The agricultural nutrient load to the Baltic Sea must be reduced and innovations within the agricultural sector are needed, both in planning and in implementation of the agricultural  ..
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It is widely accepted that agriculture counts for more than half of the N and P sources reaching the Baltic Sea, and additionally that these losses mainly originate from livestock manure. The legal framework established by EU and its Member State ..
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The first set of spring runoff peak flow has been detected in the river Vantaajoki in Finland 5 of April. Baltic Compass has been following the river since October 2010, when the project installed an automatic nutrient load measuring system at Pi ..
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The State Agency for Agriculture, Environment and Rural Areas in Schleswig-Holstein (LLUR) is a partner in many of Baltic Compass Work packages. LLURs input to Baltic Compass project is provision of environmental information by modern technologies as ..
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Baltic COMPASS is strategic project in the Baltic Sea Region, meaning that it has an important role to coordinate and liaise with related projects and activities in the region. Agro Business Park was in autumn 2009, upon start of the Baltic COMPA ..
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Baltic Compass project installed an automatic nutrient load measuring system at Pitkäkoski in the river Vantaanjoki in October 2010. The installed monitoring system is part of the Baltic Compass project's identification of ag ..
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