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New Organic Action Plan: Focus on research & innovation
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The European Commission has launched the new Organic Action Plan (OAP) for the EU on 25 March 2021, which aims to help achieve the Farm to Fork target of 25% of agricultural land under organic farming by 2030 (part of the European Green Deal). The new OAP recognises that research will be key for the achievement of …
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Press release: Solutions for sustainable feeding & animal welfare in organic farming
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25-26 January 2021, online conference – Organic farmers strive to feed their animals with feed produced at or near the farm while ensuring animal well-being. In a joint conference, four research projects, OK-Net EcoFeed, PPILOW, FreeBirds and POWER, presented solutions helping farms to implement these objectives in practice. Bram Moeskops, IFOAM Organics Europe, coordinator of OK-Net EcoFeed said “Adopting a …
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Focus on organic & agroecology in the AgR4D agenda: TP Organics' feedback to the new Global Approach to Research, Innovation, Education and Youth
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The European Commission is updating the current international strategy for Research, Innovation, Education and Youth. In its feedback to the consultation on the roadmap for the upcoming Communication on the Global Approach, TP Organics stressed that the Agricultural Research for Development (AgR4D) agenda as well as international cooperation under Horizon Europe should focus on R&I for organic and agroecology as …
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EIT Food Innovator Fellowship 2021
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EIT Food launched its 2021 Call for applications for the EIT Food Innovator Fellowship, a programme is designed for postdoctoral fellows and young professionals wishing to impact the agri-food systems by transforming lab ideas into business ideas. Our agri-food systems need to change and adapt in response to one of the grand challenges of our time, the "Food-Health-Planet" challenge. Talents …
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Save the date: Global symposium on Soil Biodiversity
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FAO Global Soil Partnership (GSP), the Intergovernmental Technical Panel on Soils (ITPS), the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the Global Soil Biodiversity Initiative (GSBI) and the Science-Policy Interface of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (SPI UNCCD) will hold the Global Symposium on Soil Biodiversity (GSOBI21) on 19-22 April 2021 from 13:00-16:00 CET online. The symposium …
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Innovation story in focus
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Humuvation: Innovative cultivation systems to promote yield stability and humus formation
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Climate change affects crop yields, causing them to fluctuate significantly. Agriculture is both impacted by climate change and contributes to it through the release of greenhouse gases. German Operational Group HUMUVATION decided to tackle these two challenges by focusing on agriculture’s potential to fix carbon. It will combine existing cultivation systems and adapt them to the …
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