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Expert forum at the Future Forum on Rural Development at Green Week

19/01/2026  How can water be retained in the landscape? This is the topic of the expert forum on sponge landscapes and paludiculture on 21 January at Green Week. Water is key to making agricultural landscapes resilient to the effects of the climate crisis. The forum will provide best practice examples of how agriculture, nature conservation and local authorities can achieve this through water meadows, controllable drainage, agroforestry systems, humus formation or peatland rewetting and paludiculture. The speakers Corinna Friedrich and Thomas Köhler (DVL), Josef Sedlmeier (Regensburg Landscape Conservation Association) and Dr Franziska Tanneberger (co-director of the Greifswald Moor Centrum) will also discuss the framework conditions and transferability of practical experience to other regions.

The expert forum will take place from 2:30 to 4 p.m. in Room A6 in the City Cube and can also be followed via livestream. It is organised by the German Association for Landscape Conservation (DVL) in cooperation with the Greifswald Mire Centre.