This is a special thematic edition of the Innovation, Knowledge Exchange and EIP-AGRI newsletter. This edition focuses on organic farming.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

  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...

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...

The Operational Group Biogemüse in Northern Hesse (Germany) identified a growing demand for fresh organic vegetables, but there was a lack of local produce available. At the same time the rural population was falling steadily and there was a low number of jobs which affected vulnerable population groups in particular....

For this year’s Organic Innovation Days, the only EU event on research & innovation for organic, TP Organics is collaborating with the two Horizon 2020-funded EU projects RELACS and Organic-PLUS, which both aim to reduce the use of contentious inputs in organic farming. The event will take place online on 30 November and 1 December 2021,...