Author name: Soil O-Live

A team of researchers from the European Soil O-Live project, coordinated by the University of Jaén, has discovered a novel method for detecting glyphosate (GLY) and other highly polar pesticides in different olive grove soil management practices. This news has also been published in the prestigious journal Environmental Pollution. The article ‘Rugged LC-MS/MS method for […]

The coordinator of the Soil O-Live project, Antonio Manzaneda, recently participated in the ‘Mission Soil Cluster on Data and Knowledge Management’. This meeting, held in Brussels, addressed the importance of soil health data in developing solutions for soil. Manzaneda explains that the Data Cluster meetings are essential for harmonising the type of data and, perhaps

The Soil O-Live project adds a new discovery to science: the relationship between the genetics of the olive tree holobiont, i.e. the association between the plant and its microbial community or microbiome, and greater or lesser tolerance to the fungus Verticillium dahliae. This is the main conclusion drawn from the article ‘Unveiling essential host genes

The influential journal Nature recently published an article by Soil O-Live project coordinator Antonio Manzaneda and several of the researchers involved in the project on the alarming situation of Mediterranean olive grove soil and the work being done by the European Soil O-Live project. Pasquale Borrelli, Francis Matthews, Philipp Saggau and Konstantinos Kaffas from Roma

Soil O-Live presented the awards for the 2nd Soil O-Live International Competition: Soil Health and Quality (The Soil Health & Olive Oil Quality Awards 2025) on Friday 26th as part of the International Conference on Sustainability in Olive Cultivation (ICSOC 2025). The winners were three oils from the province of Córdoba and a soil from

La Almazara Olivomundo de Santa Claro do Louredo de Portugal acogió ayer una nueva “Sesión formativa deSoil O-Live y Deoleo / Jornadas de Sostenibilidad” en la que han participado como ponentes Antonio Manzaneda, coordinador del proyecto Soil O-Live;y Bartolomé Lara, técnico global de sostenibilidad de Deoleo. During the conference, the Deoleo sustainability protocol was explained, along

The winners have been announced for the second edition of the Soil O-Live International Competition: Soil Health and Quality (The Soil Health & Olive Oil Quality Awards 2024), the only competition that links soil health with oil quality. Three oils from Cordoba have been recognised for their high quality and link to sustainability, and one

The Soil O-Live project continues to have scientific repercussions, this time in the discipline of electrochemistry. The prestigious journal ‘Electroquímica Acta’ Grant Agreement nº101091255 has echoed Soil Olive’s research on electrokinetic remediation of agricultural soils contaminated with copper developed by a group of researchers from the University of Castilla-La Mancha attached to the European project.

The Deoleo facilities in Alcolea (Córdoba) hosted the organoleptic tasting panel to choose the winners of the 2nd International Olive Oil Competition ‘Soil O-Live: Soil Health and Quality’, the only international competition that links soil health with oil quality. The jury was made up of four expert tasters: Marzia Migliorini, Sensory Laboratory Manager in Deoleo;

The Soil O-live project begins a new phase, the soil restoration phase, which will last 24 months. During this phase, different actions will be carried out on the selected farms that were diagnosed in the first phase of the project. One of these restoration strategies consists of implementing different combinations of amendments (compost and biochar)