Author name: Soil O-Live

The European project Soil O-Live has had special prominence in the annual meeting of the European Technical Committee for Standardisation (CENTC/444) “Environmental characterization of solid matrices”, held in Prague. The coordinator of the project and professor of Ecology at the University of Jaén, Antonio Manzaneda, has been in charge of presenting the main advances of […]

The Soil O-Live project has announced its 2nd International Olive Oil Competition (The Soil Health & Olive Oil Quality Awards 2024), the only competition in the world that values both the quality of olive oil and the health of the soil. This year’s edition incorporates an important novelty. While the previous edition was limited to

Over the coming months, the European project Soil O-Live and Deoleo will develop new training courses on sustainability for farmers in different parts of Spain and Portugal. The aim of these sessions, which will be held in collaboration with Jaencoop, Oleand Manzanilla Olive, Viñaoliva, Almaliva, Olivomundo and interóleo, is to instruct and inform farmers on

The Soil O-live project continues to make important discoveries in the field of zoology. The researchers from the University of Jaén, Miriam García-Ruiz, Joaquín Abolafia and Reyes Peña-Santiago, have described a new species of nematode that strengthens the taxonomic framework of the genus Capitellus, about which there was some controversy. This finding has been published

The town of Entrín Bajo in Badajoz hosted yesterday a new edition of the Soil O-Live and Deóleo Sustainability Conference. Around 25 farmers and technicians from the area took part in the event, showing their interest in promoting sustainable olive oil production among farmers. The day began with the intervention of Bartolomé Lara, a Deoleo

The company Deoleo will hold a workshop on sustainability on 2 April in the town of Entrín Bajo (Badajoz), the aim of which is to promote sustainable olive oil production among farmers. These workshops are part of the European project Soil O-Live, financed by the European Union and coordinated by the University of Jaén. The

Preliminary results of experiments with organic amendments developed within the European Soil O-Live project show that olive trees treated with a mixture of biochar and compost applied in an infiltrator increase their oil production per tree by between 7 and 24% compared to trees not treated with this organic amendment. The biochar used in the

The project partners held their annual meeting in Sicily where they shared the progress of the different work packages, reviewed the results of the analysis of the main indicators that form part of the soil health index, and made progress on the experimental designs to be followed in the next phase of the project. The

The European Soil O-live project has completed its first phase of research on soil health in Mediterranean olive groves in 2024 and has begun the phase of implementing solutions. Furthermore, training and awareness-raising in the agricultural sector regarding soil health and soil sustainability has been another of the pillars of the work of the project

The University of Jaén and Carboliva have signed a collaboration agreement that will allow the elaboration of an industrial doctoral thesis on the potential of biochar derived from alpeorujo for the regeneration of degraded olive grove soil. Specifically, the doctoral thesis, entitled ‘Evaluating the potential of biochar from olive pomace and olive pits to support