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INRAE launches PSOILICY effort to connect soil science with public policy

INRAE said on 16 October that PSOILICY will bring together 15 partner organizations across Europe for 42 months. Funded through Horizon Europe, the project aims to help public decisions draw on soil-health research. Partners met for a three-day launch meeting in Nancy in early October.

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Planned work includes a network of national soil-health hubs, an interoperable knowledge-management tool and resources to improve science-policy cooperation. These are project objectives: the announcement reports neither completed soil restoration nor a finished hub network.

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