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2020.02.07 | Agriculture and food
Development of new organic ingredients from the tomato variety “Pera d’Abruzzo”
Consumers concern on environmental and health issues related to nutrition. In this regard, the consumption of organic food is increasing worldwide and organic food often is expected to be produced more sustainable and provide more healthy properties than the correspondent conventional ones. In the CORE Organic Cofund project SusOrgPlus natural…
2020.02.07 | Agriculture and food
Searching for grapevine fungal trunk pathogens on cover crop roots
The potential role of cover crops as alternative hosts for soil-borne fungi plant diseases has not been thoroughly explored. Root samples from cover crops from experimental plots in the CORE Organic Cofund BIOVINE project has been analysed to find out more.
2020.02.06 | Agriculture and food
Cover crops can mitigate effects on grape pathogen dispersal
Different kind of ground covers has been indicated as an efficient way to limit rain-splashed dispersal of disease-causing spores in several crops, but not in vineyards. In the CORE Organic Cofund project BIOVINE cover crops are tested to reduce both splash- and air-borne diseases.
2020.02.05 | Agriculture and food
Video from Greenresilient
Innovative production in the greenhouse: flower strips, mixed crops, plant mulch
2020.02.05 | Agriculture and food
What are farmers’ perceptions and experiences of dam-rearing in organic dairy herds?
Interviews with farmers and other actors, carried out in the CORE Organic Cofund project GrazyDaiSy, bring forward perspectives related to calves, cows, humans and systems, of relevance for future development of dam-rearing systems.
2020.02.05 | Agriculture and food
The SUSFOOD and CORE Organic Joint Call is open for full-proposals submission
Deadline for online submission is 27th of March 2020 (15:00 CET).
2020.02.04 | Awards
Best projects awarded
Out of 33 finalized projects, FertilCrop and TILMAN-ORG were awarded as Best CORE Organic Projects.
2020.02.03 | Research news
Open Access requirements in H2020 – help for projects
A brief supports CORE Organic projects in their implementation of the H2020 Open Access requirement, and while the information is specific for CORE Organic projects, this may also be of interest for other H2020 projects with the same obligation.
2020.01.31 | Research news
Designing resilient organic greenhouse production systems for Europe
Updates from the first half of the GREENRESILIENT project
2020.01.31 | Agriculture and food
Organic Greenhouse Production: Towards an Agroecological Approach in the Framework of the New European Regulation
Fabio Tittarelli, the coordinator of the CORE Organic Cofund Greenresilient project recently published a new scientific article on organic greenhouse production “Organic Greenhouse Production: Towards an Agroecological Approach in the Framework of the New European Regulation—A Review” in Agronomy.