Enabling Nutrient Symbioses in Agriculture (ENSA)

Decarbonizing and enhancing the sustainability of farming is crucial to supporting the needs of a growing global population. Scientists from internationally-renowned institutions around the world, are collaborating on the ENSA project to help make global agriculture more sustainable and equitable. The ENSA project focuses on improving and expanding the use of beneficial microorganisms for the delivery of nutrients essential for crop production.

The aims of the programme are to replace the need for inorganic fertilisers by using beneficial microorganisms, providing a more easily accessible form of nutrient acquisition for smallholder farmers. Currently, ENSA is field trialling new technologies towards this aim. Achieving this will be a major scientific breakthrough that would help the move toward the United Nations Sustainability Development Goal (SDGs) to end hunger.