Patent on sweet and hot peppers not revoked
The European Patent Office (EPO) rejected an opposition filed against a patent held by Syngenta (ChemChina) claiming conventionally-bred sweet and hot peppers (EP2140023). Syngenta...
BIOFACH and VIVANESS 2023: Strong, positive presentation by both trade fair...
BIOFACH and VIVANESS returned to their February slot with an impressive first in-person show following the one-off Summer Edition in 2022. During the four-day...
SANA 2023 turns B2B and aims at internationalization
In 2023, SANA, the International Exhibition of Organic and Natural Products, turns 35 years old in a strictly B2B version, aiming to welcome only...
BIOFACH and VIVANESS 2023: 2,765 exhibitors and trends from “New Glocal”...
From 14–17 February 2023, it will be "all systems go" in Nuremberg. International representatives of the organic food and natural and organic cosmetics sector...
European organic market reached €54 billion in 2021
Increasing by almost 4 percent, the European organic market reached another high in 2021: 54.5 billion euros. Organic farmland expanded by almost 0.8 million...
Organic retail sales reached almost €125 billion and organic farmland grew...
Organic farmland and retail sales both continued to show growth worldwide, according to data from 191 countries (data as of the end of 2021)....
EU organic movement warns against greenwashing
IFOAM Organics Europe warns against the misuse of claims, labels, or communication initiatives about food products, that contribute to greenwashing and hinder the agroecological transition...
Visionary and resilient into the future
At the first digital salon at BIOFACH and VIVANESS, Tina Andres, Chair of the Bund Ökologische Lebensmittelwirtschaft (German Federation of the Organic Food Industry,...
Rising resistance against patents on seeds and agricultural food products in...
Last November, the European Patent Office (EPO) reaffirmed a patent on beer and barley derived from traditional breeding granted to the breweries Carlsberg and...
How should organic respond in a ‘permacrisis’?
In December the BBC reported that the Collins English Dictionary’s Word of Year 2022 was permacrisis, meaning "an extended period of instability and insecurity,...
Steffen Reese: «For organic to persist and thrive, we need political,...
2022 has not only been a year of escalating crises around the world, but also the year that saw the Naturland association celebrate its...
Organics in international development cooperation
The holistic concept of organic presents solutions for many current challenges and contributes to the SDGs. That makes it interesting for international development cooperation....
