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New report highlights benefits of organic farming form biodiversity
A new report by IFOAM Organics Europe highlights the contribution and benefits of organic farming to protecting Europe’s biodiversity.
The report recommends Member States...
2021 Natexpo Awards winners announced
Reflecting the vitality of the organic sector, the Natexpo Awards have, since 2005, paid tribute to the most innovative, useful, convenient and original products...
Dairy alternatives industry re-energised after beating off ‘censorship’ threat
Europe’s €3.6 billion plant-based food market is an extraordinary success story by any measure, growing by nearly 50% in the last two years (2018-2020,...
Increased support to organic farming in future CAP plans is needed to reach EU...
A new report by IFOAM Organics Europe highlights how much of the national CAP budgets will need to be dedicated to organic farming in all...
EOC 2021: Putting organic at the heart of the European Green Deal
The EOC 2021 (European Organic Congress) is a key annual fixture for the European organic movement, an invigorating ‘ideas factory’ where the industry debates...
BIOFACH and VIVANESS 2022: from 15–18 February at Nuremberg
Following a successful digital edition in 2021, BIOFACH and VIVANESS, the organic food and natural and organic cosmetics community will gather at Exhibition Centre...
Paul Holmbeck presentation: ‘25% Organic In 2030, We Can Make It’
The main dish of the OPTA General Assembly was for sure the lunch-session with guest speaker Paul Holmbeck, until spring 2020 director of Organic...
Just add water: The battle raging over ‘organic hydroponics’
One way of looking at organic and hydroponics is to see them each as valuable assets in the sustainable farming toolbox. They are both...
FiBL celebrates a complete success with its first digital Open FiBL Day
One day, six institutes, 45 sessions, 142 staff members, 1735 participants from over 90 countries: the first digital Open FiBL Day met with great...
Chemical drift onto organic fields: the phosphonic acid
Chemical residues found in food create a general tension between the coexistence of conventional agriculture and organic farming. This is the case of phosphonic...
