Tackling agricultural phosphorus load by soil amendments
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GYPREG

PROGRAMME 2021-2027
priority
2 Water-smart societies
objective
2.1 Sustainable waters
Project type
Core Project
Implementation
November 2023 - October 2026

GYPREG

The project GYPREG brings together national and public authorities, NGOs, farmers and farmers´ associations to increase the uptake of gypsum treatment of agricultural fields that allows to reduce phosphorus losses from agriculture.
Project summary

Eutrophication impacts the ecological state and ecosystem services provided by the Baltic Sea. So far there has been a limited set of measures to reduce phosphorus load from agriculture, which maintains the poor state of the coastal waters. We aim to tackle this challenge by engaging authorities and farmers to apply a good practice, gypsum amendment of agricultural fields. Gypsum has the potential to remarkably cut phosphorus losses from agriculture and to help EU member states to fulfil their obligations towards the EU WFD and MSD, and HELCOM BSAP, and to clean up their coastal waters. However, gypsum amendment is poorly known and lacks local applications, forming a barrier in its large-scale use. To facilitate uptake of the method, the project will, in close cooperation with the target groups, enhance interaction across the environmental and agricultural sectors, cocreate and adapt the method to the agricultural and environmental conditions in the partnering countries, and implement it in pilot activities. Finally, the learnings will be elaborated into policy briefs, summary reports, and training materials, and shared with policymakers, authorities, farmers and providers of agricultural extension services to maximise their adaptation by the target groups. The project will deliver nationally adapted operating models for applying the gypsum method in the partnering countries also in the future. In addition, it will result in concrete reductions in phosphorus losses.

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Budgets

GYPREG
in numbers.
  • 2.74
    Million
    Total
  • 2.19
    Million
    Erdf
  • 0.00
    Million
    Norway
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35 Benefitting organisations 1 Solution(s) in preparation 1 Solution(s) plannedfor use / upscale 1 Pilotactivities 23 Organisationsin the project

GYPREG
in numbers.

  • 60.167488124.9427473
  • 57.002817924.0871001
  • 53.346881-6.25886
  • 52.13967624999999420.91978802931338
  • 60.195603924.928423
  • 59.341476818.064424
  • 57.68582075000000511.978188284954435
  • 56.953898324.0993642
Lead partnerFinnish Environment Institute
  • Town
    Helsinki
  • Region
  • Country
    Finland
  • Region
    Helsinki-Uusimaa
Total partner budget
565,830.00
Latvian Institute of Aquatic Ecology
  • Town
    Riga
  • Region
  • Country
    Latvia
  • Region
    Rīga
Total partner budget
243,073.60
Lithuanian Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry
  • Town
    Akademija, Kedainiai district
  • Region
  • Country
    Lithuania
  • Region
    Kauno apskritis
Total partner budget
274,286.00
Institute of Technology and Life Sciences – National Research Institute
  • Town
    Falenty
  • Region
  • Country
    Poland
  • Region
    Warszawski zachodni
Total partner budget
322,316.51
John Nurminen Foundation
  • Town
    Helsinki
  • Region
  • Country
    Finland
  • Region
    Helsinki-Uusimaa
Total partner budget
485,050.00
Race For The Baltic
  • Town
    Stockholm
  • Region
  • Country
    Sweden
  • Region
    Stockholms län
Total partner budget
497,888.75
RISE Research Institutes of Sweden
  • Town
    Göteborg
  • Region
  • Country
    Sweden
  • Region
    Västra Götalands län
Total partner budget
151,900.00
Union Farmers Parliament
  • Town
    Riga
  • Region
  • Country
    Latvia
  • Region
    Rīga
Total partner budget
199,196.80

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