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Winter Harvest: Supporting the Development of Organic Winter Growing
In Austria, apart from corn salads, hardly any organic vegetables are available during the winter from domestic production. As a result, most of the vegetables on sale are imported or grown through high-energy intensive production. To address this problem, a project has been developed called winter harvest: seasonal, energy-extensive and...
Austria
2015 - IFOAM EU Group
مقالة في مجلة
Flemish Organic Research & Knowledge NetworFlemish Organic Research & Knowledge Network: Promoting Farmer-Led Knowledge Exchange and Research
The Flemish Knowledge and Research Network for Organic Food and Farming (FORK) was created in 2009 by Landwijzer, the organic training centre, BioForum, which represents the Flemish organic food and farming sector, the Coordination Centre for Applied Research and Extension on Organic Agriculture (CCBT) and the Network for Organic Food...
Belgium
2015 - IFOAM EU Group
تقرير
Country report on the implementation of the new CAP and its possible effects on permanent pastures: SPAIN
The 17 regional governments in Spain have considerable autonomy in agricultural and nature conservation policies. There are 17 individual Rural Development Programmes, as well as a national programme for certain measures. In the case of Pillar 1 of the CAP, a common model of implementation was agreed between all the...
Spain
2015 - European Forum on Nature Conservation and Pastoralism
فيديو
The voice of European Farmers & Agri-cooperatives talk about producing food for a growing Europe
Copa and Cogeca : the voice of European Farmers & Agri-cooperatives talk about producing food for a growing Europe
European Union
2015 - Copa & Cogeca
دراسة حالة
Overview of the agricultural inputs sector in the EU
This study analyses the seed, feed, energy, fertilizer, and plant protection agents farm input sectors from two perspectives: the demand side and the supply side. Average input shares in the EU-27 for seeds and fertilizers declined while they increased for feeds. Market concentration is the largest in the plant protection...
European Union
2015 - European Union
موجز في السياسات/ وثيقة في السياسات
Making national forest funds more effective
This Policy Brief has been issued in conjunction with and partly as a summary of "Towards effective national forest funds", Forestry Paper no. 174. It aims to give a quick overview of the mechanism of financing sustainable forest management projects through national forest funds (NFFs) and on how this financing...
2015 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
مقالة في مجلة
Silo Bio Ouest: A Cooperative Solution to Ensure the Quality of Organic Grain
The wide diversity of different grains produced by organic farmers, as a result of their long-term crop rotation systems, means a significant number of dedicated silos are needed to meet the enhanced requirements for quality and traceability. These are often unavailable in the existing storage facilitates used by the conventional...
France
2015 - IFOAM EU Group
موجز في السياسات/ وثيقة في السياسات
Strengthening public forestry institutions
This brief describes the changing context within which public forestry administrations operate and outlines concrete steps they can take to adapt to this changing context and to strengthen their capacity to fulfil their mandates.
2015 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
مقالة في مجلة
The Little Milk Company: A Group Marketing Initiative by Organic Dairy Farmers
Dairy farmers generally produce either summer or winter milk, depending on their farm’s calving system, with few exceptions, where milk is produced all year round. Due to its higher production costs, especially the price of organic feed, winter milk attracts a higher price premium than summer milk. Although some organic...
Ireland
2015 - IFOAM EU Group
مقالة في مجلة
Bio connect: Coordinating Research and Knowledge Transfer Amongst Organic Stakeholders
Research priorities are often defined by policy makers without involving stakeholders sufficiently, or with ineffective measures put in place to disseminate the final results. Responding to this problem, the Dutch organic sector set up Bioconnect in 2005, with the aim of reorganising the coordination of organic research and knowledge transfer...
Netherlands (Kingdom of the)
2015 - IFOAM EU Group
مقالة
Functional Short Food Supply Chains in the Field of Romanian Rural Tourism. Case Study: Harghita and Neamț Counties
Nowadays, one cannot talk about an authentic rural tourism within a certain destination without emphasizing the local cultural heritage (cultural landscape, customs and traditions, gastronomy and so on). In the existing context, the local gastronomy is perceived as a marketing instrument efficient in differentiating the rural touristic destinations. A special...
Romania
2015
مقالة في مجلة
Farmer-To-Farmer Exchange: Promoting Conversion to Organic Farming
Converting to an organic farming system or developing one further, can present major challenges for conventional producers who lack basic or advanced information about agro-ecological practices, or who do not understand the value of such practices. This often creates a barrier to potential new converts, or for the up-take of...
Spain
2015 - IFOAM EU Group
تقرير
Country report on the implementation of the new CAP and its possible effects on permanent pastures: The UNITED KINGDOM
Agriculture is a devolved power in all 3 cases in the UK (Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland); English agricultural matters are run by an England-only administration (Defra) but under the control of UK Ministers and the UK parliament. The environment is similarly devolved, but habitat conservation status for Article 17...
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
2015 - European Forum on Nature Conservation and Pastoralism
مقالة في مجلة
Protein Tips: Producing More Organic Fodder Locally In Response to Climate Change
The aim of the project Protein Tips was to increase the amount of locally produced fodder, as a response to climate change, in order to reduce the need to import soy beans for protein fodder. Research showed that the use of locally produced protein fodder crops could considerably improve the...
Sweden
2015 - IFOAM EU Group
فيديو
Jyoti Fernandez - Public Debate on Agroecology in the European Parliament
In September 2015, family farmer Jyoti Fernandes spoke at a Policy Debate in the European Parliament. The video is embedded below and a full transcript of the talk is available here. Being part of the UK Landworkers’ Alliance and the European Coordination of La Vía Campesina (host of the debate),...
2015 - La Vía Campesina
مقالة
Cooperatives mean the development of the Romanian agriculture
Les avantages des coopératives et des groupes de producteurs.
The advantages of cooperatives, groups and organisations of producers.
Romania
2015 - RNDR
مقالة في مجلة
Improving implementation of rural development policy
All EU citizens benefit from Rural Development Programme (RDP) actions and the 2014-2020 programming period involves new emphasis on improved implementation opportunities that can boost the range and reach of RDP benefits. The following overview article identifies some of the main issues that can help improve the effectiveness of RDP...
2015 - European Union
دراسة حالة
The Profitability of Seasonal Mountain Dairy Farming in Norway
Summer mountain dairy farming has a long tradition in Norway. At the same time it seems to be more interest in seasonal mountain processing expected due to:
Health aspects of mountain products may be important for demand
Grazing is to be promoted due to animal welfare concerns
The risks are probably related to...
Norway
2015 - Norwegian Agricultural Economics Research Institute
متنوّعات
All EU countries ready to support Operational Groups for farmers and foresters
Farmers and foresters from all over Europe are very keen to start up new innovative projects, since the European Commission has made funding opportunities available to set up ‘Operational Groups’. Inger Pehrson, Coordinator of the Innovation Network from the Swedish Rural Network confirms: “It is the first time that a...
2015 - Agriculture&Innovation
مقالة في مجلة
Financial Instruments: making funding go further
Rural Development Programmes (RDPs) can use a combination of grants and FIs to support projects and schemes. Grants distribute funds that do not need to be repaid by beneficiaries. FIs provide RDP funding for investments that are repaid by beneficiaries through loans and micro-finance, guarantees, equity, interest rate subsidies, or...
2015 - European Union
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