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Organic Innovation Days 2021: A successful demonstration of promising innovations
The Organic Innovation Days 2021, TP Organics’ annual public event and the only EU event on research and innovation for organic agriculture, was successfully held online on 30 November and 1 December, under the title “Better inputs for organic agriculture”.
Belgium
2021
Project
SureVeg Project
SUREVEG will develop and implement new diversified, resource-efficient and intensive vegetable cropping systems.
The systems are based on strip-cropping, and fertility strategies combined from recycling of waste and plant-based soil-improvers and fertilizers.
The purpose is to meet the needs of the organic vegetable sector comprising ecological intensification, resilience, fertilization, resource-efficiency and biodiversity.
Field...
Belgium - Denmark - Finland - Italy - Latvia - Netherlands (Kingdom of the) - Spain
2021 - Aarhus University, Denmark
Newsletter
Access Agriculture e-newsletter May 2021
This monthly e-newsletter gives a bird’s eye view of all the exciting updates from Access Agriculture, a world-leading organisation for quality agricultural training videos in international and local languages, working across the Global South.
Belgium
2021 - Access Agriculture
Website
Access Agriculture platform now in Portuguese!
Based on demand from its Lusophone user community across the Global South, Access Agriculture has launched a Portuguese-language version of its video-sharing platform (www.accessagriculture.org/pt). The platform is already available in Bangla, English, French, Hindi and Spanish.
Belgium
2021 - Access Agriculture
Newsletter
Access Agriculture e-newsletter July 2021
This monthly e-newsletter gives a bird’s eye view of all the exciting updates from Access Agriculture, a world-leading organisation for quality agricultural training videos in international and local languages, working across the Global South.
The Access Agriculture Panorama features information on new videos, audio podcasts, blog posts, articles contributed by experts,...
Belgium
2021 - Access Agriculture
Newsletter
Access Agriculture e-newsletter June 2021
This monthly e-newsletter gives a bird’s eye view of all the exciting updates from Access Agriculture, a world-leading organisation for quality agricultural training videos in international and local languages, working across the Global South.
Belgium
2021 - Access Agriculture
Newsletter
Give wings to women entrepreneurs in rural India
Access Agriculture Panorama No. 14 - September 2021 Newsletter
Belgium
2021 - Access Agriculture
Newsletter
Access Agriculture Panorama - December 2021
This monthly e-newsletter gives a bird’s eye view of all the exciting updates from Access Agriculture, a world-leading organisation for quality agricultural training videos in international and local languages, working across the Global South.
The links to different language versions are given below each section.
Belgium
2021 - Access Agriculture
Blog article
Training trees
Many people are familiar with pruning trees, but on a recent course organised by the association of ecological gardeners (VELT) in Bocholt, Limburg, Belgium, I learned another important trick to shape trees and harvest more fruit. By training trees, you make branches grow in the direction you want. That sounds...
Belgium
2020 - AGROinsight
Blog article
Eating bricks
In Belgium we have an expression: “all Belgians are born with a brick in their stomach”, meaning that all citizens aspire to build their own house someday. But when bricks are literally eaten, something has gone seriously wrong.
Belgium
2020 - Agroinsight
Website
Réseau des GASAP - Belgique
Les GASAP (groupe d’achats solidaires de l’agriculture paysanne) proposent de la vente directe, sans intermédiaire, qui permet un lien direct et solidaire avec des fermes locales qui travaillent pour une agriculture « agroécologique », pourvoyeuse d’emplois dans nos régions. C’est bien plus qu’un panier de légumes bio, c’est une véritable alternative alimentaire.
Frères des AMAP françaises, les GASAP sont une initiative citoyenne...
Belgium
2020 - Groupes d’achats solidaires de l’agriculture paysanne - Belgique
Blog article
Trying it yourself
Helping to write a script for a farmer training video on vermiwash triggered my interest in trying it out myself, as I began to wonder if ideas from tropical India could work in temperate Belgium.
Belgium - India
2020 - Access Agriculture
Blog article
The village hunter
Regulations to curb the indiscriminate and dangerous use of pesticides on seed and in fields must go hand in hand with other measures, such as promoting hedgerows that fulfil important ecological functions for birds and pollinators. Also, environmentally-friendly alternatives could be further investigated and promoted. Green, innovative technologies, such as...
Belgium
2020 - AgroInsight
Blog article
Reviving soils
Globally an estimated 20 to 60 million hectares of land in developing countries are acquired by foreign companies and investors. This so-called “land grabbing” has taken place for various reasons. The most obvious one is the hunger for maximising profit. The devastating effects on deforestation for the expansion of biofuels,...
Belgium
2020 - AgroInsight
Project
#17Reasons2Coop - Agri-cooperatives contribution to the United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals
The campaign #17Reasons2Coop aims at promoting agri-food and forest cooperatives as a critical tool to design tomorrow’s agriculture. Since the beginning of their existence and at each stage of their growth, by responding to farmers’ needs, agri-cooperatives have been pursuing the objective of social, economic and environmental sustainability. Sustainability is...
Belgium
2019 - COPA COGECA - EU farmers and agri-cooperatives
Blog article
Hemp: high time for the EU to weed out prejudice
A LinkedIn Op-ed on the potential of the hemp sector and its benefits for enviornment and bioeconomy.
Belgium
2019 - Copa Cogeca
Newsletter
Farm-Success project newsletter – 4th edition
Welcome to the final newsletter from the Farm-Success project!Since you last heard from us we have been carrying out the final adjustments, tests, and translations to our online training platform. We have also held several multiplier events across Europe in which young farmers and other stakeholders have discussed the importance of succession processes...
Belgium - Czechia - Italy - Slovenia - Spain
2018
Video
Food is Life...Life is people. The #FutureofCAP and the #EUbudget
Italian MEP Paolo De Castro and Copa-Cogeca Secretary General Pekka Pesonen sit down for an important exchange of views on the future of the Common Agriculture Policy and the EU budget.
Belgium
2018 - COPA COGECA
Practices
Innovation Award for Women Farmers 2018
COPA launched the fifth edition of the Innovation Award for Women Farmers entitled “Innovative solutions for farming sustainability”.
With this initiative Copa wishes to highlight the innovative activities and projects carried out by women involved in farming and/or forestry throughout the EU. The projects presented by these women demonstrate their ability...
Belgium
2018 - COPA COGECA
Policy brief/paper
CAP Key Messages
Food is Life...Life is People
A set of key messages on the EU's Common Agriculture Policy and its benefits for farmers and agri-cooperatives.
Belgium
2018 - COPA COGECA
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