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Combining systemic and pragmatic approaches for the holistic diagnosis of a farm in agroecological transition in a health context
Introduction: Today, agriculture and livestock farming are facing environmental, social and health challenges. The agroecological transition is a possible response to these challenges. It requires changes in practices but also an evolution in farmers' ways of thinking and relationships with living things. Some diagnostics of farms, such as the global analysis...
France
2023 - INRAE
Video
Organic approach to plant health care and pesticides regulation - Full version
This video explains the organic approach to plant health care, gives insights into the Sustainable Use of Pesticides Regulation (SUR), and explains what policy makers need to do to reach the reduction goals set by the EU Green Deal's Farm to Fork strategy.
2023 - Ifoam Organics Europe
Newsletter
Organic Farm Knowledge platform - Newsletter May 2023
The Organic Farm Knowledge platform (organic-farmknowledge.org) provides access to a wide range of tools and resources about organic farming that can help improve production. We are pleased to share this month’s newsletter with you. We look forward to sharing more news with you in June.
2023 - The Organic Farm Knowledge platform
Policy brief/paper
Farmers want nature restoration
On 15 June the European Parliament’s Environment Committee will vote on their report on the Nature Restoration Law. Organic farmers very much contest the unjustified opposition the legislation has faced over the past months and object the constructed narrative that the Nature Restoration Law would threaten food security, or that...
European Union
2023 - Ifoam Organics Europe
Newsletter
TP Organics Newsletter - June 2023
TP Organics Newsletter - June 2023
European Union
2023 - TP Organics
Project
CORE Organic Pleiades: International collaboration for organic research
The CORE Organic Pleiades is an international network of 43 partners in 27 countries/regions, that joins forces to fund transnational research projects within the area of organic food and farming. The network is implemented under the Horizon Europe project OrganicTargets4EU. The CORE Organic Pleiades network period began on 1 September 2022 and...
European Union
2023 - CORE Organic Pleiades
Newsletter
IFPRI Insights
The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) is pleased to announce a new operational structure intended to strengthen our research, delivery, and scaling collaborations with partners on evidence-based policy solutions to sustainably reduce poverty and end hunger and malnutrition in developing countries. The updated structure also facilitates cross-CGIAR collaboration in line with...
European Union
2023 - The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI),
Newsletter
Agroecology TPP newsletter - Second Edition - March 2023
In this second edition of the Agroecology TPP newsletter, we want to take a moment to reflect on a major milestone – namely, the first Agroecology TPP’s All Members’ Forum meeting, which was held in Montpellier, France and online on 22-23 February.
Due to a number of COVID-19-related restrictions experienced over...
2023 - The Transformative Partnership Platform on Agroecology
Report part
Where is the Food we need?
It never ceases to amaze me why it’s so difficult to buy locally produced food that is tasty, seasonal, fresh and chemical-free directly from farmers. Why do government policies and programmes always seem to favour big agro-business and supermarket culture? It’s Thursday. I’m on my way to collect this week’s...
Poland
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Website
Le projet agro-écologique en France
Le projet agro-écologique en France. Articles, nouvelles et événements relatifs à l'agro-écologie et à ses pratiques en France
European Union
2023 - French Ministry of Agriculture, Agrifood and Forestry
Policy brief/paper
AGROECOLOGY EUROPE’S COMMENTS ON THE PROPOSAL FOR A DIRECTIVE ON SOIL MONITORING AND RESILIENCE (SOIL MONITORING LAW)
Agroecology Europe (AEEU), the European association promoting agroecology as a set of practices, a science and a movement across Europe welcomes the Commission’s COM(2023) 416 Proposal for a Directive on Soil Monitoring and Resilience published on the 5th of July 2023.
The Soil Monitoring Law (SML) marks a positive starting point for...
2023 - Agroecology Europe (AEEU),
Journal article
Farmers’ profiles and attitudes towards the implementation of rainwater harvesting systems in intensive agriculture
Rainwater harvesting (RWH) systems are presented as a feasible alternative to increase water resources for agricultural use. However, the installation of these systems in farmers’ holdings is very limited. It is necessary to know the opinions and attitudes of farmers towards these systems to develop specific measures that respond to...
Spain
2023 - Universidad de Almería, Spain
Blog article
Enhancing food security under changing weather patterns: farm adaptation
On 14-15 March 2023, 80 participants from across Europe met at the EU CAP Network workshop in Bologna, Italy, to discuss how to enhance food security under changing weather patterns. The workshop focused on exchanging knowledge and sharing innovative, inspirational practices and approaches that support farmers in adapting to changing...
European Union
2023 - EU CAP Network
Policy brief/paper
THE YOUTH MANIFESTO “AFFORDABLE SUSTAINABLE FOOD AT THE HEART OF OUR FUTURE” : THE IMPORTANCE OF MAKING SUSTAINABLE FOOD ACCESSIBLE TO YOUTH
The young people interviewed often reported being unable to afford sustainable food due to their limited budget. The difference in prices between sustainable and unsustainable food often pushed young people to buy the cheapest food available, resulting in unsustainable food consumption. Several participants expressed that high prices represented one of...
European Union
2023 - The Agroecology Europe Youth Network
Journal article
Food systems in depressed and contested agro-territories: Participatory Rural Appraisal in Odemira, Portugal
Farming regions in Europe, particularly in the South, are increasingly feeling the effects of climate change due to factors such as drought, extreme weather events, and desertification, with severe consequences for food security and food sovereignty. Additionally, decades of rural mismanagement have left countless of these farming territories severely depressed...
Portugal
2023 - Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
Blog article
CAP Environmental Derogations: What is the Impact on Food Security?
Back in March 2022, and following the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, the conservative branch of the EU parliament and agricultural ministers started to build on their narrative of at-risk food security in the EU. This narrative, pushed by COPA-COGECA for weeks, ended up in a communication by the EU Commission and...
European Union
2023 - ARC 2020
Manual
Black Sea turbot
A comprehensive production manual
In the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, aquaculture plays a major role in achieving food security and can deliver many socioeconomic benefits and help to maintain or increase production of aquatic foods while ensuring wild stocks are fished within their maximum sustainable yield. Given the importance of this sector and...
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Policy brief/paper
New position paper on the management of pesticide residues in organic products
The position paper represents a real milestone and provides for a guide that has been expected from many organic stakeholders within and outside the EU. With this position paper we aim to make it widely recognized that organic production is performed in a contaminated world with the omnipresence of pesticides...
European Union
2023 - Ifoam Organics Europe
Newsletter
Agroecological Transition of TERritorial food systems Newsletter
ATTER (Agroecological Transition of TERritorial food systems) is an EU-funded project for scaling up agroecological transitions for territorial food systems through cross-case studies, relying on 16 territorial case studies anchored in five countries (France, Italy, United Kingdom, Brazil and USA) and 18 participating organisations.
European Union
2023 - ATTER (Agroecological Transition of TERritorial food systems)
Project
Social farming in Spain’s Canary Islands supports rural women and families
The ‘La Jaira de Ana’ farm was set up using LEADER funding to raise awareness (through participatory experiences and workshops) about the importance of the primary sector for the culture and society of the Canary Islands. In this context, in addition to goat farming they also organise dedicated key support...
Spain
2023 - EU CAP NETWORK
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