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Note/document d'orientation
Integrating agroecology into European agricultural policies
Position paper and recommendations to the European Commission on Eco-schemes
On January 14, 2021, the European Commission published a list of agricultural practices that could be supported through the Eco-schemes to be put in place by EU Member States. This list aims to contribute to the debate on the reform of the CAP and its role in achieving the objectives...
European Union
2022 - Agroecology Europe
Projet
Inspirational idea: Certification of Pesticide residue free fruit & veg
Improved technology, organisation and marketing for the production of fruit and vegetables without pesticide residues.
Many farms growing fruit and vegetables under conventional farming systems are applying production techniques which reduce, either partially or totally, the application of synthetic pesticides. AgroTrend is a Polish Operational Group which is developing a zero-residue...
Poland
2022
Projet
Inspirational idea: Controlling wireworms in potato production
Austrian Operational Group looking for alternative, environmentally friendly control methods.
Wireworms, the larvae of click beetles, cause major losses in potato production across Europe. The situation in recent years seems to be worsening due to climate change as Johannes Mayer, Austrian potato farmer explains: “Wireworm damage is more significant in drier...
Austria
2022 - Eip Agri Agriculture & Innovation
Projet
Inspirational ideas: Everything you need to know about sheep on one digital platform
An Operational Group in Bulgaria is developing a national web-based platform to pool resources and knowledge and create a place for different stakeholders from the sheep breeding sector to exchange experiences. Simeon Karakolev from the project “The ‘All for the sheep’ platform features everything you would need to know about...
Bulgaria
2022 - Eip Agri Agriculture & Innovation
Rapport
Peasant Agroecology according to ECVC
Peasant Agroecology is a way of life
Peasant agroecology supports life-enriching systems and opposes life-alienating systems. It offers solutions to the major environmental, social, economic and political challenges we are facing today. It is a living practice, as well as a science and a socio-political movement, built and fostered by people over thousands of years. For aeons...
2022 - EUROPEAN COORDINATION VIA CAMPESINA
Rapport
Policy workshop: how to make pesticides and herbicides unnecessary through the redesign of farming systems ?
The Farm to Fork and Biodiversity strategies as part of the European Green Deal objectives set up important targets to improve the sustainability of farming and food systems, among which reducing the overall use and risk of chemical pesticides by 50% and the use of more hazardous pesticides by 50%...
European Union
2022 - Agroecology Europe
Divers
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
Note/document d'orientation
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
Bulletin d'information
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
Article de blog
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
Rapport
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
Bulletin d'information
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
Directives
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
Note/document d'orientation
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
Note/document d'orientation
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)
Directives
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
Bulletin d'information
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
Document technique
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
Article de blog
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
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