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A recent study by the Thünen Institute of Climate-Smart Agriculture assessed data on soil carbon content and stocks in arable soils under organic and conventional farming in Germany. The surprising finding: the soil carbon in organically farmed fields hardly differs from that in conventionally…

A functional monitoring network for Germany's moorland areas is now in place. The 155 measuring points in open land and forests were set up over the past five years by scientists from the Thünen Institute. Today, Thursday, they are submitting their report on the development phase to the Federal…

The Thünen Institute now has its own landscape laboratory, starting out with nine experimental fields. At the Trenthorst site (Schleswig-Holstein), models for future land use are being developed, researched, and tested on an area of 600 hectares. The researchers aim to overcome traditional forms of…