Content Related to "Future Promotional Policy must recognise Organic Farming, says MEPs"
Nov 14/15, 2019,
at the Julius Kühn-Institut, Königin-Louise-Str. 19, 14195 Berlin, Germany
We would like to invite farmers and growers, scientists, regulators, agricultural advisers and other people working with or on copper in a context of plant protection to contribute to the conference programme. Contributions will be presented in English.
Plant health in organic farming is managed mainly through preventive and indirect measures such as the choice of appropriate species and varieties adapted to local conditions, wider crop rotation, the enhancement of agro-biodiversity, the release of macrobials as well as mechanical and physical methods. Synthetic pesticides and fertilisers used in conventional farming are replaced in organic farming by strategies, not exclusively by another input:
Organic agriculture can help us to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals put forward by the United Nations.
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Sustainable Development Goal 3: Good health and well-being
The “Haus der Bauern” foundation organises an international congress on the issue of “peasants’ rights” from 7-10 March 2017, which will be attended by peasants, small scale producers, rural workers, and other people working in rural areas as well as other international organisations and numerous stakeholders.
For the seventh year farmers, food craftsmen and critical consumers will gather in Berlin for Wir haben es satt (We are fed up) demonstration, calling for healthy food, family farms, organic and agro-ecological agriculture and fair trade.
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Make Europe recognize soil as a common good - Sign and share People4Soil’s European citizen’s initiative
IFOAM EU organised an event 'Countering Climate Change with Organic Agriculture' in association with the Roundtable on Organic Agriculture and Climate Change (RTOACC) and the Representation of the Veneto Region to the European Union in the Committee of the Regions, Brussels on 11 November 2014.
Please find available presentations below:
Scientific panel - the benefits of organic farming for climate mitigation and adaptation
