Bio Eco Actual
Mark Smith: “Above all, consumers demand transparency”
Mark Smith holds a PhD in Chemistry and Genetics. Over the last ten years, he has worked on strategic interdisciplinary coordination and collaboration projects...
Free From Expo 2021 proves a great success – despite restrictions
Despite the tightened measures as a result of increasing COVID-19 infections, Free From Food Expo 2021 opened its doors in the Amsterdam RAI on...
International FiBL cotton project honoured with research prize
The FiBL project Green Cotton/Seeding the Green Future of the Department of International Cooperation was presented with the SFIAR Award. At the award ceremony...
OPTA Europe launches Manifesto for Organic Climate Action
The General Assembly of OPTA Europe has recently adopted the Manifesto for Organic Climate Action. An important signal from the organic processing and trade...
Weighing up the zero waste opportunity
The rapid rise of the zero waste store is being called a retail revolution, and has been grabbing headlines around the world. Across Europe...
Gerard Versteegh: “Organic integrity is at the true core of our business”
Gerard Versteegh is the president of Tradin Organic, the world's leading supplier of organic ingredients. Founded in the early 1980s, the company is known...
Bavo van den Idsert: “We need a fast move to true cost accounting and...
Bavo van den Idsert (1960) began his contact with the ecological world in 1987, when he finished his studies of Dutch language and literature....
OPTA Europe recommends integration of Nova-concept into the Nutri-score
The members of OPTA Europe have adopted the OPTA Position paper on Nutrition labelling and communication in reference to the Nutri-score.
OPTA Europe expresses additional...
How to make organic plant breeding mainstream
Organic plant breeders celebrated their 20th anniversary in Brussels to discuss with stakeholders and policymakers the necessary changes to boost organic plant breeding to...
European Parliament approves disappointing new CAP
The European Parliament’s Plenary adopted the new CAP (2023-2027) Regulation with 452 votes in favour, 178 votes against, and 57 abstensions.
Organic needs environmentally...