b'Field Trip Option 4: Workshop (Clayton Whites Hotel):A Catchment Challenge, an interactive workshop on balancingcompeting demands on land functionsFunctional Land Management (FLM) WorkshopsCatchment ChallengeLilian OSullivan1, Ger Shortle2 and David Wall11Teagasc, Crops Environment and Land-use Programme, Johnstown Castle, Co Wexford2Teagasc, Advisory, Johnstown Castle, Co Wexford Functional Land ManagementThe challenge to meet both food security and environmental sustainability has resulted in aconfluence of demands on land within the European Union (EU). Functional Land Management (FLM) offers policy makers a framework support tool that seeks to optimise the agronomic and environmental returns from the land based upon the selective augmentation of specific soilfunctions. FLM recognises that soils deliver multiple functions simultaneously tosociety,namely: 1)food production, 2)water purification & regulation, 3)carbon sequestration, 4 )the provision of a habitat for biodiversity and 5)the ability to absorb external organic nutrients such as sewage sludge or organic manure. FLM is an integrative framework that takes a landscape approach thereby allowing agriculture and environmental sustainability to be considered together. Soil quality within FLM is thecapacity of the soil to supply these soil functions sustainably, with demand defined by policydrivers. The introduction of the demand concept within FLM therefore allows changes insoil quality to vary through a change in demand. In this way, FLM offers considerable possibility as a policy integrator for sustainability with potential to utilise existing policy instruments for FLM governance. The discrepancies in relation to the supply and demand for soil functionsassociated with scale described by Schulte et al. (2015) have implications for soil and landmanagement: some soil functions must be managed at local field and farm scale, whilst others may be offset between regions with a view to meeting national or continental targets. Function Land Management WorkshopsA series of participatory FLM workshops have been conducted across a diverse range ofstakeholders. The purpose of these workshops is to communicate the FLM concept and tochallenge participants to take a holistic approach to the landscape. Furthermore, this provides the opportunity for often diverging stakeholders to work together, to find common solutions tosatisfy the growing demands on the land using the FLM concept. 94'