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Organic farming - Innovative approaches to support conversion
This brochure has been produced within the framework of the European Innovation Partnership for Agricultural Productivity and Sustainability (EIP-AGRI), which was launched by the European Commission to promote innovation in the agricultural and forestry sectors and to improve connections between research and practice. This publication follows up on the work...
European Union
2022 - Eip Agri Agriculture & Innovation
Policy brief/paper
Horizon Europe – EU R&I Partnerships on Agroecology & Sustainable Food Systems
EU Partnerships are a new and ambitious instrument in Horizon Europe, the EU’s 9 th Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (R&I). With ERA-Nets (including ERA-Net CORE Organic) and JPIs ending in their current format1 , the new partnerships are expected to pool resources of a wide range of public...
European Union
2022 - TP Organics
Newsletter
Innovation & knowledge exchange | EIP-AGRI Organic Farming
This is a special thematic edition of the Innovation, Knowledge Exchange and EIP-AGRI newsletter. This edition focuses on organic farming.
European Union
2022 - Innovation, Knowledge Exchange and EIP-AGRI
Blog article
Organic, protecting Europe's genetic diversity
Organic farming seeks to protect the genetic integrity of living organisms, and this is why no GMOs are used in the organic production process. It ensures the availability of enough GMO-free and organically compatible resources. The organic sector commits to meeting consumers’ highest expectations about the genetic resources it is...
2022 - Organics Europe
Report
Organic living labs and lighthouse farms in Europe
In light of the new Organic Action Plan for the EU, which recognises the importance of research and innovation for organic, knowledge exchange on organic farming, and building organic agricultural knowledge and innovation systems (AKIS), TP Organics’ study, based on mapping and screening existing cases in Europe, presents seven organic...
European Union
2022 - TP Organics
Newsletter
Social FARMS Newsletter #3 | July 2022
Social FARMS is an innovative Strategic Partnership project started in November 2020 and ending in October 2022, granted under the European Union Programme Erasmus+ within the Key Action 2 Cooperation for Innovation and the Exchange of Good Practices. The project focuses its priorities on access for disadvantaged, with specific attention...
2022 - Social FARMS
Guidelines
A new strategic vision for sustainable aquaculture production and consumption in the European Union
Did you know that more than half of the world’s fish and other aquatic food for human consumption comes from aquaculture? In fact, the farming of fish and shellfish (aquaculture) has been the fastest growing food production activity in the world in recent decades. This growth is expected to continue.What are the benefits...
European Union
2022 - European Commission
Policy brief/paper
Scientific evidence on the contribution of organic farming to sustainable food security
With the current conflict in Ukraine and food security now being a major political question (e.g., Aubert et al. 2022, Dankevych 2022a, Dankevych 2022b, Glauber & Laborde 2022), this briefing explains how organic contributes to sustainable food security, summarising the most relevant and recent scientific publications that critically assess the...
European Union
2022 - TP Organics
Policy brief/paper
Improving Eco-schemes in the light of agroecology: Key recommendations for the 2023-2027 Common Agricultural Policy
On 25 June 2021, the European Union (EU) finalised its negotiations for the new Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) that is set to come into power on 1 January 2023 and run until 2027.
While this CAP is being championed by its creators as a radical new framework for tackling agricultural and...
European Union
2022 - Agroecology for Europe (AE4EU)
Guidelines
Putting the science into fisheries management
Sustainable fisheries management starts with scientific research – and an enormous amount of it is taking place across the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, supported by the GFCM. Small-scale fishers have a central role to play in the monitoring and data collection activities that inform the work of fisheries scientists,...
2022 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO, GFCM
Article
Why Legumes are Necessary for the Agroecological Transition
Legumes are a special group of plant species that includes crops such as peas, beans, and clovers. Legumes are unique because they require no synthetic nitrogen fertiliser to grow and once they are harvested, the nitrogen-rich crop residues can be left in the field as manure. This process further offsets...
Italy
2022 - Agroecology Europe
Newsletter
Romanian National Rural Development Network Newsletter - 2/2021
Romanian National Rural Development Network Newsletter - Topics include discussions on transition period call for projects; survey on LEADER impact on balanced development;19meeting of NRNs, EU and national news, and many many more
Romania
2021 - Romanian National Rural Development Network
Technical paper
Low-carbon dairy farm: reducing the climate impact of milk production in the mountains
The Low Carbon Dairy Farm consists of conducting an environmental and technico-economic diagnosis on each farm and identifying potential actions to improve its carbon footprint. The objective is to build a progression strategy in collaboration with the farmer, so that the action plan fits the realities of the farm and...
2021 - Euromontana: the European Association for Mountain Areas
Blog article
Growing Organic in Latvia
The question is though – how often do I get to choose between organic and conventionally grown produce here, in Riga, Latvia? Well, it turns out that if I am very motivated, I can find quite a wide variety of products, even locally produced ones except for example exotic fruits,...
Latvia
2021 - IFOAM Organics International
Project
Support to Rural Entrepreneurship, Investment and Trade in Papua New Guinea (EU-STREIT PNG)
The Programme is focusing on three value chains of cocoa, vanilla and fisheries (aquaculture, riverine and in shore/reef) and aims to achieve an overall objective "To increase sustainable and inclusive economic development of rural areas" through a combination of two integrated outcomes: (1) Increasing the economic returns and opportunities from...
European Union - Papua New Guinea
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Event
EIP-AGRI Seminar 'CAP Strategic Plans: the key role of AKIS in Member States'
EIP-AGRI Seminar: “CAP Strategic Plans: the key role of Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation Systems (AKIS) in Member States” - Online seminar
The EIP-AGRI Seminar 'CAP Strategic Plans: the key role of AKIS in Member States' was initially planned to take place in Warsaw, Poland on 22-23 April but it was postponed...
European Union
2021 - Eip Agri Agriculture&Innovation
Project
Planting the seeds of a sustainable organic farming future
The EU-funded LIVESEED project, launched in 2017, wanted to tackle the issue of organic seed availability and quality from a variety of angles, from market aspects through to regulation.
“We wanted to know for example, how transparent the market is,” explains project coordinator Ágnes Bruszik from the European Office of the...
European Union
2021 - European Commission
Report
Recent agricultural policy developments in the context of the EU approximation process in the pre-accession countries
The aim of this report is to analyse recent agricultural policy developments in the countries/territories of the Western Balkans (WBs) and Turkey and their state of harmonisation with the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of the EU. The report provides both comparative cross-country analyses and a more detailed assessment in the...
2021 - Joint Research Centre (JRC)
Blog article
Transitioning towards organic farming
Bio-inputs replaced chemical inputs on farmers fields
With 11 years of experience in organic farming and 5 years working with marginalpaddy farmers (organic) at Gondeda, Tal. Chimur, Dist. Chandrapur, Maharashtra, last season of Kharif, we (Generous Technologies Pvt Ltd) tried our hands in the high pest pressure zone of paddy area...
European Union
2021 - Leisa India
Blog article
“La agricultura regenerativa es el futuro, hay que sanar el suelo”
Raúl Rituerto se vale del ganado para nutrir, abonar y recuperar la tierra de sus variados cultivos de Azazeta
Hasta hace treinta años, los agricultores cultivaban un poco de todo en sus campos. Sin embargo, las últimas décadas ha habido una tendencia hacia la especialización, que no es buena. Quien así se pronuncia es Orkatz Pagola, uno de los formadores de los cursos sobre agricultura regenerativa que imparte el organismo EIT Food.
La agricultura regenerativa viene...
Spain
2021 - Regeneration International
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