Agricultural Nitrogen Use Efficiency Platform
AgNUE is an international research platform advancing the measurement, modelling and management of nitrogen in agricultural systems.

Scope of project
The AgNUE project in numbers.
14
Partners engaged
Collaboration across leading institutions in Europe and the US driving forward nitrogen use improvements
12
Intensively monitored fields
Generating high-quality data across diverse agricultural systems
5-year
Research platform
Building the datasets and models needed to reduce uncertainty

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News
Explore articles, analyses and other communication related to the project.
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From rice fields to global climate solutions
Professor Klaus Butterbach-Bahl has studied the relationship between agriculture and the climate for more than…
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Building the transatlantic field foundation for AgNUE
Agricultural systems may differ across continents, climates and production systems, but many of the challenges…
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Comparing methods for measuring ammonia emissions in the field
Picture: AgrosceNa-NEXT, Alberto Sanz-Cobeña Ammonia emissions are an important pathway for nitrogen losses from agricultural…
What we do
Field-based data generation
Building the foundation through intensively monitored research sites that generate high-resolution nitrogen datasets across agricultural systems.
Mechanistic experimentation
Investigating the biological and chemical processes that drive nitrogen transformations, emissions and crop uptake.
Soil microbiology
Understanding how soil microorganisms influence nitrogen cycling, emissions and ecosystem processes at the microscopic level.
AI-powered
modelling
Combining datasets, advanced models and AI-driven approaches to reduce uncertainty and improve nitrogen predictions.

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