phosphorus Archives

Project / The project TRUST ALUM helps public authorities in the Baltic countries make better use of ALUM water treatment and improve water quality in lakes.

2023 - 2025 / About Water resources

A cartoon drawing of a woman carrying a jerry can to a water pump, situated inside a walled area with steps up.

Image bank to use with the Resource Flow mapping tool when implementing the Clean and Green framework

Other publication / A set of 116 images can be used with the Resource Flow mapping tool and other sensitization tools in the Clean and Green framework.

5 July 2023 / About Food and agriculture and Sanitation

Assessment of environmental and farm business impacts of phosphorus policies in two European regions

Journal article / This paper presents analyses of the economic and environmental impact of relevant phosphorus management policy scenarios.

30 September 2022 / About Climate policy and Public policy

Child outside latrine in Montero, Bolivia

Combining sewered and non-sewered sanitation in Montero, Bolivia: scaling up sustainably

SEI report / Additional solutions, capacity development and strengthening of governance systems are needed to allow for increased sustainability of the city's sanitation.

1 March 2022 / About Cities, Food and agriculture, Participation and Sanitation

Figure 1. Example of growth response of Italian ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum) to different fertilization treatments including (from right to left in the photo) control (no fertilizer applied), broiler litter and pig slurry all applied at rates of 30 kg P ha−1 and 250 kg N ha−1. The photo was taken on 2 July 2019 after a ~3 month-long growing period under controlled greenhouse conditions.

Soil and Plant Responses to Phosphorus Inputs from Different Phytase-Associated Animal Diets

Journal article / Commercial phytase levels and higher dietary phosphorus (P) contents in pig diets contributed making the plant–soil system more "P-conservative".

20 January 2022 / About Food and agriculture

Forage quality in tundra grasslands under herbivory: Silicon-based defences, nutrients and their ratios in grasses

Journal article / Researchers asked if and to what extent herbivores affect silicon content and silicon:nutrient ratios of grasses found in tundra grasslands.

1 January 2022 / About Ecosystems

White pig with mud-covered snout staring at camera with 4 other pigs in background on farm in sunlight, Herdern, Switzerland, September 2018

Phosphorus Flows, Surpluses, and N/P Agronomic Balancing When Using Manure from Pig and Poultry Farms

Journal article / Background levels of nutrients in soils determine whether manure will lead to phosphorus runoff. Current nitrate guidelines will lead to phosphorus surpluses.

3 November 2021 / About Food and agriculture

View of Fyris River in Storvad, near Uppsala, Sweden

Recycling nutrients and reducing carbon emissions in the Baltic Sea Region—Sustainable or economically infeasible?

Journal article / "Ecotechnologies" for recovering carbon and nutrients are costly. A so-called "bottom-up" approach can serve as a decision-making instrument.

20 September 2021 / About Food and agriculture and Water resources