2021.01.11 | Agriculture and food
The EU has adopted ambitions targets to increase organic production as part of the European Green Deal indicated in the Farm to Fork and Biodiversity Strategies under the objective of 25% of the EU’s agricultural land under organic farming by 2030. This high target entails specific knowledge and research needs that can be sustained through new and…
2020.12.09 | Agriculture and food
In the SusOrgPlus project, the concept of heat pump drying and conventional drying were used to dry organic apples. This aims to improve product quality and sustainability through reducing environmental impacts.
2020.12.07 | Agriculture and food
The possibility of controlling soil-borne pest nematodes by using Brassica* species. plants as cover crops in the inter-row space of vineyards followed by biomass incorporation and so called biofumigation was investigated in the CORE Organic Cofund project BIOVINE.
2020.12.04 | Agriculture and food
Diversification of farming systems might provide significant environmental and socio-economic benefits. Multi-species livestock farms are complex, and therefore difficult to characterize; however, this complexity can potentially be an advantage for developing robust animal production systems. Here, the Mix-Enable project presents some initial…
2020.12.04 | Agriculture and food
Within the Mix-Enable project we interviewed farmers running mixed organic livestock farms to assess their individual satisfaction and wellbeing. Despite the high workload, the overwhelming majority of farmers rated their satisfaction at work as high or often high.
2020.12.04 | Agriculture and food
A recent article published in Viola, a Swedish magazine, explains what the Greenresilient project is doing and why is it important for Swedish producers. Find out more about the Swedish context as well as other Greenresilient partner countries.
2020.12.04 | Agriculture and food
Intercropping of vegetable crops asks for field operations performed individually for each row of crops or even for each single crop plant.
2020.12.01 | Research news
The EU has adopted ambitions targets to increase organic production as part of the European Green Deal indicated in the Farm to Fork and Biodiversity Strategies under the objective of 25% of the EU’s agricultural land under organic farming by 2030. This high target of 25% organic set for 2030 entails specific knowledge and research needs that can…
2020.09.24 | Agriculture and food
The European Technology Platforms (ETPs) ‘Plants for the Future, ‘Food for Life’ and ‘TP Organics’ have jointly published a policy brief with Research & Innovation recommendations to address the most pressing challenges facing primary production and consumer aspects in our food systems. The policy brief is a response to the European Green Deal and…
2020.09.24 | Agriculture and food
The Greenresilient project organised a visit on July 9th to the experimental sites in Avignon (France) to discuss the latest research about crop mixtures, functional biodiversity and mulching in the framework of organic greenhouse production.
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