Organic farming

Organic farming and gene editing could complement each other very well and contribute to more local and global sustainability, according to a new study that takes a look at Europe’s Farm to Fork Strategy and its…

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Organic farming

Results from long-term trials established by FiBL and its partners in Kenya, India and Bolivia reveal that the profitability and productivity of organic agriculture can equal conventional agriculture. Furthermore, this…

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Organic farming

Results from long-term comparative farming systems research of the Swiss Research Institute of Organic Agriculture FiBL and its partners in Kenya, India, and Bolivia reveal that profitability and productivity of organic…

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Organic farming

Global organic agriculture continues to grow, as the latest data on organic farming worldwide in this publications shows. It reveals that 2018 was another record year for global organic agriculture.

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Organic farming

The positive trend in organic agriculture seen in the past years is gaining more ground. Over 70 million hectares were organically managed at the end of 2018, a growth of nearly 3 per cent compared to 2017.

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Organic farming

Organic farming provides important impulses to make our food system more sustainable. This is demonstrated by eleven international experts – including lead authors Frank Eyhorn of Helvetas and Adrian Müller of the…

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Organic farming

At the 3rd Organic Forum in Kirchberg, Germany, representatives of Sikkim, India – which is the first organic state world-wide – and Zanzibar, Tanzania and Andhra Pradesh, India, presented their approaches in preparing…

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Organic farming

Global organic area reaches another all-time high, according to new data from FiBL and IFOAM. Organic farmland increased by 20 per cent compared to 2016.

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Organic farming

Western diets are not transferable to what will soon be ten billion people, for there are simply not enough water resources and spaces of arable land to support such a population. Experts discussed prospects for a…

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Organic farming

In a long-term project in Kenya, the Swiss-based Research Institute of Organic Agriculture has examined the potential of organic and conventional agriculture regarding soil fertility, the occurrence of pests and…

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