[PDF] Top 20 Coordination of European transnational research in organic food and farming

... Organic farming represents a possible alternative with a more holistic view of agriculture and food production, and directly addresses the prob- lems faced in many areas of conventional agricultural ... See full document

... regarding research priorities, programmes, funding mechanisms and ongoing research projects as well as publications and re- sults, which are in great demand by different ...CORE Organic I recognised ... See full document

... international research group and organisations will be though the EU research ...global research institutes and organisations as for example IFPRI (International Food Policy Research ... See full document

... new research and development project funded under Core Organic II — after going through the same independent assessment and selection process as all other ...Core Organic II ERA-NET is to prepare for ... See full document

... different European acts issued after the Council Regulation 2091/92, have all recognized organic farming as a strategic tool to realize a sustainable development of European society: the ... See full document

... of organic food and farming systems have to be assessed for the future of ...of organic food and farming systems. Does organic agriculture stick to a niche strategy of ... See full document

... of organic farms and industries provide. Several European universities have recently started to offer Bachelors and Mas- ters courses on organic food chain management, as they perceive this to ... See full document

... the organic sector and from the wider public to discuss strategic research priorities that will enhance the sectors’ ability to produce high qual- ity foods consistently, reliably and in sufficient ... See full document

... of organic farming, the investigation of organic farming and climate change, and improving animal husbandry systems with respect to animal ...for organic farming, and particular ... See full document

... National/State Organic Action Plan (OAP) has been approved in 2007 with the global aim to establish the baseline for the policy action of the Agriculture Ministry for organic farming in the next ... See full document

... of organic food consumption compared to conventional health foods, through a direct estimate of consumption, it can be seen that the few researches such as those cited in this section have shown that ... See full document

... Research for organic food and farming systems – a European priority.. Why?[r] ... See full document

... the organic food chain on the road towards increased sustainability, efficiency and environmental and sociatal ...the research agenda is to provide a well sup- ported document which will enable the ... See full document

... Organic food is more and more available on the shelves of conventional food ...domestic organic products in supermarkets was available in Rimi shops together with “Talu Toidab” (Farm ... See full document

... The European organic food market is emerging from its pioneer- ing phase, and in some countries at least, it is growing into matu- ...for organic food in EU and North America, the two ... See full document

... local organic mar- ket is mainly placed around the capital city, where a major part of the consumers are foreigners and affluent higher middle class ...selling organic products, and they are situated in the ... See full document

... Farm Research Centre, WIRS, SAC, will be invited to provide links from their own ...For organic producers, technical messages distilled from the study tour reports will be offered for publication in ... See full document

... specialised organic pig and poultry farms rose from 11 in 1996 to 52 in ...all organic farms keeping pig and poultry, respectively rose from 160 and 2000 in 1998 to 390 and 4200 in 2003 ...other ... See full document

... the organic food system often lack transparency in the eyes of both the supply-chain members and the end ...While organic supply has shown to be remarkably adaptive to changing demands so far, in the ... See full document

... Work done by the EU Scientific Committee on Plants (SCP) shows that at those levels of seed contamination, allowing only 0.2% for cross pollination (none for sugar beet) and virtually nothing for other potential sources ... See full document