Half of the world’s food security is dependent on nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizer use. Often, an excessive application of these fertilizers ends up in our water bodies as agricultural run-off, generating wastewater rich in nutrients.
Nutrient recycling and recovery from sewage sludge can greatly reduce the demand on synthetic fertilizers, offsetting around 13% of the global fertilizer demand in agriculture. Recovering these nutrients (phosphorus and nitrogen) prevents them from being lost to the environment, thus reducing pollution pressure on marine and freshwater ecosystems and reducing biodiversity loss.
This webinar, organised by the Global Partnership on Nutrient Management (GPNM), taking place on 15 April 2025, 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM Nairobi time, aims to showcase a few projects that are working to reduce phosphorus pollution in the environment through innovative phosphorus recycling and recovery approaches.
