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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)

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