Compost And Digestate: Sustainability, Benefits, Impacts For The Environment And For Plant Production Proceedings Of The International Congress Codis 2008 February 27-29, 2008, Solothurn, Switzerland

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Compost and digestate: sustainability, benefits, impacts for the environment and for plant production
Proceedings of the international congress CODIS 2008 February 27-29, 2008, Solothurn, Switzerland

Edited by Jacques G. Fuchs, Thomas Kupper, Lucius Tamm & Kaarina Schenk

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Compost and digestate: sustainability, benefits, impacts for theenvironment and for plant production
Proceedings of the international congress CODIS 2008

February 27-29, 2008 Solothurn, Switzerland

Edited by Jacques G. Fuchs, Thomas Kupper, Lucius Tamm & Kaarina Schenk

The editors gratefully acknowledge financial support from Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN), Swiss Federal Office of Energy (SFOE), Federal Office for Agriculture (FOAG),Kompogas AG, Recycling Organic Materials (ROM). The content of the articles in this report are the sole responsibility of the authors. The information contained herein, including any expression of opinion and any projection or forecast, has been obtained from sources believed by the authors to be reliable, but is not guaranteed as to accuracy or completeness. The information is supplied withoutobligation and on the understanding that any person who acts upon it or otherwise changes his/her position in reliance thereon does so entirely at his/her own risk. The CODIS 2008 congress was the final event of the two projects entitled “Organic Pollutants in Compost and Digestate in Switzerland” and “Effects of Composts and Digestate on the Environment, Soil Fertility and Plant Health”. These twoprojects were support by Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN), Swiss Federal Office of Energy (SFOE), Federal Office for Agriculture (FOAG) and canton Zurich. For further information, see the project homepage at http://www.bafu.admin.ch/abfall/01472/01480/01742/index.html?lang=en.

Fuchs Jacques G., Thomas Kupper, Lucius Tamm & Kaarina Schenk (Eds.) (2008): Compost and digestate : sustainability,benefits, impacts for the environment and for plant production. Proceedings of the international congress CODIS 2008, February 27-29, 2008, Solothurn, Switzerland. Updated edition, including the papers of P.H.B. Poulsen et al. (p. 131), M. Aira et al. (p. 189), M. Aira et al. (p. 285), D. Lesinsky and M. Veverka (p. 307) © March 2008, Research Institute of Organic Agriculture FiBL, Ackerstrasse,CH-5070 Frick, Phone +41 62 8657-272, Fax +41 62 8657-273, E-mail info.suisse@fibl.org, Internet http://www.fibl.org

ISBN 978-3-03736-016-3

Cover photograph: Jacques Fuchs, FiBL, Switzerland. Cover: Daniel Gorba, FiBL, Frick, Switzerland Layout: Jacques Fuchs, FiBL, Frick, Switzerland Printed at Zumsteg Druck AG, Frick, Switzerland

A PDF version can be downloaded free of charge from thecongress internet site at www.codis2008.ch and at the Organic Archive at http://www.orgprints.org/13135.

CODIS 2008 International congress, CH-Solothurn 27th – 29th February 2008

International Congress CODIS 2008 Compost and digestate: sustainability, benefits, impacts for the environment and for plant production

Organization:
Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL) Ackerstrasse,Postfach CH-5070 Frick

Sponsors:
Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN) Swiss Federal Office of Energy (SFOE) Federal Office for Agriculture (FOAG) Kompogas AG, partner of AXPO Recycling Organic Materials (ROM)

Organizing committee:
Dr. Jacques G. Fuchs (FiBL) Nicole Rölli (FiBL) Dr. Lucius Tamm (FiBL) Dr. Kaarina Schenk (FOEN) Dr. Andreas Röthlisberger (ASCP)

Scientific committee:Dr. Jacques G. Fuchs (Research Institute of Organic Agriculture FiBL, Frick, Switzerland) Thomas Kupper (Swiss College of Agriculture, Zollikofen, Switzerland) Prof. Dr. Werner Bidlingmaier (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Weimar, Germany) Dr. Thomas Bucheli (Agroscope Reckenholz-Tänikon ART, Zurich, Switzerland) Prof. emer. Harry Hoitink (The Ohio State University, USA) Dr. Sabine Houot (National...