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The 'RECARE Video Guidance Document' has been produced by our colleagues Katie Hickford and Jane Mills from partner institute CCRI. The document has been produced '...for researchers wanting to produce a high-quality video to summarise a project… with little or no previous experience' .

The document can be downloaded HERE.

The next plenary meeting of the RECARE project will be held in Sibiu, Romania, and will be hosted by colleagues of the National Research and Development Institute Bucharest (ICPA). The dates for the upcoming meeting are Tuesday 17 - Friday 20 April 2018.

The meeting program and meeting information page are available from the links below. The registration page is now open; all project partners please register for the meeting.

  • The meeting program (v3) can be downloaded HERE.
  • The meeting information page is available HERE. (download pdf version HERE)
  • The meeting registration page is available HERE; registration is now open.

There has been a great deal of discussion about the use and extension of the approval of the use of glyphosate as a herbicide. Glyphosate is currently the most used herbicide in Europe. In 2016 the approval by the European Commission for the use of this agent expired. However, an extension of approval of use is currently being discussed. One of the conditions of this is that the agent cannot have a negative impact on the health of people, animals and the environment. Yet, little attention has been given to the presence of glyphosate in agricultural soil as a result of the broad use of this agent in agriculture. A scientific publication written by an international group of scientists led by Wageningen University & Research has recently been published in the journal Science of the Total Environment. This article contains the details of more than 300 soil samples taken from agricultural land in ten European countries, and argues against renewal of the approval of use of this herbicide. 

  • Reference to the paper: Silva, V., et al., Distribution of glyphosate and aminomethylphosphonic acid (AMPA) in agricultural topsoils of the European Union, Sci Total Environ (2017), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.10.093