CERMANU

The Interdepartmental Centre for Research on Nuclear Magnetic Resonance for Environment, Food, Agro-ecosystems and Innovative Materials (CERMANU), located in the Department of Agriculture of University of Napoli Federico II, involve two working-groups for "Soil Environment" and "Structural and Functional Biology" devoted to the characterization and dynamics of organic matter in the environment and to the analysis of plant-soil system interactions and ecosystem studies. The research activity include also the following tasks:

analyses of agricultural and forest ecosystems,
interactions of agro-ecosystems with and anthropogenic pollutants and agrochemicals and development of sustainable remediation technologies,
analytical traceability of agricultural products,
recycling of agricultural biomasses, innovative SOM managements for organic carbon sequestration in agricultural soils and control of greenhouse gases emissions from agro-ecosystems.

In the last five years the CERMANU has been involved in the following projects concerning the area of the proposal:

Regional project PSR-Campania "Biocompost - Innovation and management in biological agriculture: on-farm composting and soil application of compost and compost TEA";
Coordinating partnership for the National project on "Sustainable methods for the sequestration of organic carbon in agricultural soils" (FISR-MESCOSAGR) funded jointly by the Ministers of Research, Agriculture, and Environment of Italy;
National representative partner in the European Project "ANAEE-Analysis and Experimentation on Ecosystems";
Partnership in European Project "BIOFECTORS Resource Preservation by Application of BIOefFECTORS in European Crop Production".