The sustainable transformation and valorisation of agro-livestock and forestry residues offers a major opportunity to improve soil health, enhance agricultural productivity, and support climate change mitigation within a circular economy framework. By converting organic waste streams into value-added soil amendments through processes such as composting, co-composting, pyrolysis, or anaerobic digestion, agricultural systems can move from linear resource use towards more resilient and regenerative soil management strategies, in line with the objectives of the EU Mission Soil.
By integrating waste valorisation and nutrient management perspectives, this session aims to bring together researchers, early-career scientists, and practitioners to exchange knowledge and advance sustainable soil management in circular agroecosystems. Emphasis will be placed on initiatives that translate scientific advances into tangible practices for sustainable agriculture and resilient agroecosystems.
Within this broader context, the session also addresses nutrient cycling and soil remediation through the use of organic amendments and chars, including biochar. These materials can contribute to improved nutrient retention and use efficiency, reduced nutrient losses and emissions, and enhanced soil–water–plant interactions, depending on feedstock, processing methods, application rates, and site-specific conditions.
This session aims to address:
• Field and lab experiments on productivity, nutrient efficiency, and soil health.
• Remediation of polluted soils and aquatic systems.
• Modeling nutrient cycling, pollutant dynamics, and amendment behavior.
• Life cycle assessment and sustainability studies.
• Effects of feedstock, processing, and transformation methods (composting, anaerobic digestion, pyrolysis, etc).
• Investigations on emissions, volatilization, and leaching.
• Agro waste valorization for a sustainable agriculture.
The session aims to create a meeting point for researchers, early-career scientists, and practitioners from academia, research centers, and industry to present recent results and exchange knowledge on waste management, recycling, and valorization strategies. Emphasis will be placed on initiatives that translate scientific advances into tangible practices for sustainable agriculture and resilient agroecosystems.