From the 10th to the 12th of November 2017, over 100 people from more than 40 cities came together in Essen, Germany to exchange ideas and experiences about food policy councils (FPCs, in German: Ernährungsräte). This was the first networking congress of recently created food policy councils and initiatives planning to do...

La agricultura familiar resulta fundamental para garantizar la sostenibilidad alimentaria, así como la cohesión social y territorial de las zonas rurales. Es un modelo agrario estratégico en el combate contra el despoblamiento, gracias precisamente a su implantación en el territorio, a su capacidad de generar empleo para jóvenes y mujeres...

Denmark has the highest market share in the world of organic food and beverages (13,0% in 2021). Danes are proud to have a shared vision to be the world leaders in developing sustainable organic production. Denmark is a small country with a high proportion of agricultural land (good soil, good...

BENCHMARKS proposes the co-development within 24 European case studies of a multi-scale and multi-user focused monitoring framework that is transparent, harmonised and cost-effective. Underpinned by the best scientific knowledge and technologies this framework provides a clear soil health index for benchmarking, using indicators that are pertinent to the objective of assessment,...

Luxemburg has experienced immense population growth since 1970, almost doubling to some 650,000 today. This population growth has been largely due to immigration. Luxembourg also experiences significant daily cross border movement of workers with some 220,000 arriving and leaving every day. These consumers are very much tied to their own...

The Group came together to identify ways in which the role of the organic producer in the organic value chain can be strengthened through cooperation. During the two thematic group (TG) meetings members took stock of the policy & regulatory framework; identified the key enabling conditions and barriers to strengthen...

Horizon Europe, the EU’s key funding programme for research and innovation, includes regular calls to set up EU-wide advisory networks. COREnet was the first such network, launched in 2022. Over the next two years, there are five more of these advisory network calls on different topics. Applying to this type...

Even before the EU Farm to Fork Strategy launched in 2020, the EU took action to make food systems more resilient to shocks. But did the EU’s ambitions bear fruit? Cecilia D'Alessandro and Paulina Bizzotto Molina break down lessons learned from their evaluation of the EU’s support to food systems abroad,...

The Family Farming Knowledge Platform (FFKP) Monthly Digest showcases the latest contents uploaded in the FFKP to provide its readers with relevant and up to date information on family farming main themes such as agroecology, smallscale fisheries, pastoralism, indigenous people, and more. For more documents, feel free to search in the...

On behalf of the Agroecology Fund project by the ECA Community of Practice on Agroecology, the team at Agro-Perma-Lab (Poland) is preparing a series of articles, online Agroecology Schools' series as well as 3x quarterly newsletters in 2023. This series is designed for anyone with an interest to advance Agroecology in...

Our food and farming systems need to respect the planetary boundaries, be climate neutral, circular, diverse, and fair. They need to be resilient and prepared for external shocks and crises like we recently experienced with the Covid-19 pandemic, the Russian war in Ukraine and the related energy, fertiliser and food...

All of a sudden, they are there. Just a moment ago, helpers had cut a cocoa pod and draped it on the table. They had straightened the cube-shaped seats while wistfully staring at the half-empty aisles. Everything was still being set up and food was still cooking in kettles on...

Sustainable, ecological approaches to European farming, the heart of the European Green Deal, are needed to safeguard food supplies for EU citizens and protect the long-term livelihoods of rural communities. The emergence of more support for organic systems as a form of agro-ecological production can help address these policy challenges...

• Replacement of Contentious Inputs in Organic Farming Systems • Evaluates solutions to further reduce the use of external inputs and develop cost-efficient and environmentally safe tools and technologies to: • Reduce the use of copper and mineral oil in plant protection • Identify sustainable sources for plant nutrition •...

We’re back with Shane Casey in The Burren, where it’s been a good Spring. Family and farm are thriving. For Shane, nature conservation and productivity go hand in hand. As the debate rages around the EU Nature Restoration Law, he is sympathetic to the farmers who are being asked to...

The Organic Research Centre is a leading, independent, research charity working for better farming, food and health, promoting environmental sustainability, quality food and health and wellbeing for all. We work in the UK and internationally to: research and develop practical, sustainable land management and food production systems based on organic...

There is broad consensus on the key role of organic production and consumption in the transition to a sustainable food system, with the Farm to Fork Strategy including the objective of ‘at least 25% of the EU’s agricultural land under organic farming by 2030 and a significant increase in organic aquaculture'. To achieve this target and to help...

With the new programming cycle for 2021-2027 now under implementation, the seventh progress report provides an opportunity for closure with respect to the EU’s ambitious 2013 pledge to allocate EUR 3.5 billion to nutrition between 2014 and 2020. The annual resource tracking exercise presented here confirms that by 2020 the...

La agricultura siempre ha mirado más a las plantas que a sus raíces, más al verde que a los suelos. Pero la agricultura regenerativa se ha fijado precisamente en las tierras donde cultivamos, con el objetivo de mejorar la salud del suelo, aumentar la biodiversidad y mejorar la disponibilidad y...

ALL-Ready and AE4EU jointly host their final project conference at the European Committee of the Regions in Brussels on 27 September 2023. REGISTER HERE The one-day conference will shed light on how the two projects paved the way for a European Network of Living Labs and Research Infrastructures. Both projects will feature...