EIP-AGRI launched a call for experts for new Focus Groups on the following topics: Grazing for carbon: The Focus Group will explore management practices and business models for increasing the soil carbon content from grazing systems New forest practices and tools for adaptation and mitigation of climate change Applications are open until 23 March 27. Focus Groups are temporary groups …
The Conference of the Nordic Association of Agricultural Scientists (NJF) on the topic of organic production and food systems, will be held in Finland, on 19-21 June 2017. The aim of the event is to garther experts in the multidisciplinary field of organic research and is dedicated to provide a forum for a discussion on the following topics: sustainable organic production …
Every three years IFOAM - Organics International, Rural Development Administration (RDA) of the Republic of Korea and the IFOAM Technology Innovation Platform (TIPI) honor the great work of organic innovators with the Organic Farming Innovation Award (OFIA). Innovations should extend to the following: are new in their context are applicable to organic farming, processing and trade are relevant for solving …
LEAP-Agri call for preliminary proposals has been launched. LEAP-AGRI (A Long term EU-Africa research and innovation Partnership on food and nutrition security and Sustainable Agriculture) is a partnership (an ERA-NET co-fund) between 30 partners including 24 funding organisations from nine African countries, nine European countries and an international organization. It invites consortia composed of at least four research organisations and/or …
The next Ecofruit Conference will take place in February 19-21, 2018 at Hohenheim, Germany. The call for papers will be launched in the summer of 2017. 18th International Conference on Organic Fruit Growing - “Ecofruit” is the continuation of the 17 previous conferences. It aims to bring together European researchers and consultants working on topics related to organic fruit growing. …
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