Innovations for Sustainable Agriculture

A full professor since 2012, Katarzyna Chojnacka Ph.D., Dr.Sc. has published over 350 papers, including 200 papers in world-known peer-reviewed scientific journals from JCR list, among them majority devoted to biosorption. She has participated in many international and national conferences as invited plenary speaker and received numerous awards. She is currently the head of Chemical Laboratory of Multielemental Analyses certified by Polish Centre for Accreditation and ILAC MRA for PN-EN ISO which specializes in determination of trace elements in environmental and biological samples, as well as in commercial products. She is the author of 30 patents and implementation of fertilizer products with trace elements to the market. For many years, she has been an expert for the National Science Centre (Poland) and The National Centre for Research and Development (Poland) Mateusz Samoraj recieved his Ph.D. in Chemical technology in 2016 from Wroclaw University of Sceince and Technology. For several years afterwards, he worked in industry as a Research and Development specialist in chemical manufacturing. He has since returned to academia and currently works as and Adjunct Professor at Wroclaw University of Science and Technology. He has published over 25 papers.

Section 1: Systemic approach of mixed crop-livestock production (for adaptation to climate change) 1. Circularity in mixed crop-livestock production - a priority for sustainable development 2. Feeding dairy cows - a key tool for reducing greenhouse gas emissions 3. Methods and techniques in manure management to reduce GHG emissions Section 2: Solutions to increase Nutrient and Carbon circularity 4. Prevention pollution caused the nutrient leaching from agricultural non-point sources 5. Waste management in mixed farming systems: valorization of agricultural waste to increase nutrient and carbon circularity 6. Sustainable livestock wastewater management: resource recovery in the context of the circular bioeconomy Section 3: Decision support platform and ICT solutions 7. Data-driven decision support in mixed farming systems: Overview and challenges 8. Design of a decision support platform for mixed farming systems Section 4: Pilot deployment and testing 9. Systems to reduce GHG emissions (in crop and animal sectors) across various climatic regions of Europe 10. Production of fertilizers from agricultural waste - circularity improvement and reduce GHG emissions 11. Mixed crop and livestock farming opportunities - integration of animal and plant production into the circular agri-food system Section 5: Evaluation of circular approaches with LCA (Life Cycle Assessment) 12. Strengths and limitations of LCA in representing mixed crops and livestock farming systems 13. LCA framework to evaluate the footprint of linear vs. circular systems 14. Case studies: Footprint results Section 6: Evaluation of circular approaches using agroecological and socioeconomic analysis. 15. Agroecological strengths and limitations of the circular approach in mixed crops and livestock farming systems. 16. Socio-economic analysis of circular approach in mixed crops and livestock farming systems