BRESOV aims to tackle the nutritional challenges of a growing world population and changing climatic conditions by enhancing productivity of different vegetable crops in an organic and sustainable farming infrastructure. BRESOV works on broccoli, snap bean and tomato as those staple vegetable crops have significant roles in meeting our global food and nutritional security goal, and under...

Correction: The original version of this story had a headline stating the E.U. joined South Pacific groups. The Seychelles Fishing Authority (SFA) and Sustainable Indian Ocean Tuna Initiative (SIOTI) are both based in the Indian Ocean, not the South Pacific.  The Seychelles Fishing Authority (SFA), Sustainable Indian Ocean Tuna Initiative (SIOTI),...

2023 is the year when the EU’s Farm to Fork Strategy aims to confirm policy proposals for establishing an EU legislative framework covering sustainable food systems. The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) plays many instrumental roles in supporting Member States’ transition to sustainable food systems. Networking CAP know-how in such fields offers useful added value opportunities...

To stand out, organic farming must continue to improve and to raise the bar, refusing to settle for minimum standards. Companies are more and more seeking to align their brands with sustainability, but we must remain vigilant to avoid greenwashing and ensure genuine commitment to organic principles. To thrive in this...

On 21 March 2023, Agroecology Europe organised an agroecological farm visit for Members of the European Parliament and their team members of the AGRI and ENVI Committees of different political groups including the Renew Group, the EPP Group and the Greens. In the fields of the Warelles Farm in Petit-Enghien, thirty...

Con objeto de catalizar la adopción de prácticas agrarias sostenibles y saludables para la mitigación y adaptación a la emergencia climática, la Red de Municipios por la Agroecología presenta su última publicación: “¿Cómo apoyar desde las políticas locales los servicios ambientales que presta la agroecología frente a la emergencia climática?”. Este...

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...

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.

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.

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...

TP Organics Newsletter - June 2023

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...

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...

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...

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...

Le projet agro-écologique en France. Articles, nouvelles et événements relatifs à l'agro-écologie et à ses pratiques en France

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...

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...

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...

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...