This video was produced in partnership with Fisheries and Oceans Canada and Ingenium.

Potatoes may seem innocent enough. But their farming can impoverish the biodiversity of lakes, oceans, rivers... But don't worry: there are plenty of solutions that can be implemented to remedy this.

00:00 Potato love
01:19 Nitrogen for growth
02:39 Agriculture breaks a natural cycle
03:11 Fertilizers
04:04 Eutrophication
06:39 Solutions (there are plenty!)
09:10 Summary
10:21 Mosquito attack

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   • L'Eutrophisation: proliférations d'al...  
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Crop rotation: https://corpus.ulaval.ca/jspui/bitstr...
If we compare agriculture with chemical fertilizer (known as "mineral") vs agriculture with slurry, at equal production, the risk of eutrophication is even worse for slurry: https://lop.parl.ca/sites/PublicWebsi... en_CA/ResearchPublications/202007E
Slurry is susceptible to leaching: https://quebecvert.com/medias/D1.1.61...

IMAGE SOURCES
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