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Ecovia Intelligence: 11th Sustainable Foods Summit in Amsterdam
Europe, Europe
15.04.2019 EditorThe eleventh European Sustainable Foods Summit will be hosted in Amsterdam, Netherlands, from 13th-14th June 2019. The summit comprises four dedicated sessions.
New method for egg production: When male chicks do not even hatch
Europe, Germany
20.11.2018 EditorGender determination in the egg provides the possibility to only breed laying hens. The first eggs produced in this way are now available in conventional retail.
Switzerland: Organic sales of vegetables, fruit and milk increase significantly
Europe, Switzerland
15.11.2018 Leo FrühschützFrom September 2017 to August 2018, customers bought 7 percent more organic vegetables in Swiss retail outlets than in the same period last year. Sales of fruit and milk increased as well.
France: Trends and tendencies in the organic specialist trade
Europe, France
13.11.2018 Kai KreuzerIn 2017, France generated organic sales of around 8.3 bn euros. However, as conventional retailers are pushing their organic growth, the specialist trade is being threatened. But new trends also create new opportunities.
Malmö: Natural Products Scandinavia and Nordic Organic Food Fair
Europe, Sweden
07.11.2018 EditorNext week, Natural Products Scandinavia will be hosted from 14-15th November in Malmö, Sweden. Alongside the trade event, the Nordic Organic Food Fair will also take place at MalmöMässan.
Lidl Belgium: Discounter supplies Ghent's households by bicycle
Europe, Belgium
12.10.2018 EditorIn the Belgian city of Ghent, discounter Lidl has recently started offering its customers a bicycle delivery service for around 400 fresh foods. The goods can be ordered online via the pop-up web shop “Simpl”.
Green Valley Awards: Last days of registration
Europe, Russia
05.10.2018 EditorOn 27th October 2018, the Green Valley Awards will be co-hosted alongside the beauty event InterCharm taking place from 24th to 27th October in Moscow, Russia.
Austria: Conversion to organic farming without regrets
Europe, Austria
26.09.2018 EditorAccording to a survey, 98% of Austrian organic farmers would decide to switch back to organic farming again. Many of them see organic farming as an attitude to life.
GO! Organic Festival: Successful launch of London’s first organic consumer event
Europe, Great Britain
18.09.2018 EditorThousands of people came to visit Go! Organic Festival in London. It was the first dedicated organic consumer festival taking place in England's capital.
BioBorrel in Amsterdam: Registration open until next week
Europe, Netherlands
14.09.2018 EditorOn 26th September, the seventh BioBorrel edition will take place in Amsterdam. Registrations are possible until next Thursday.
Organic imports from Turkey: How the current inflation affects prices
Europe, Turkey
11.09.2018 Leo FrühschützThe Turkish Lira lost value rapidly in the last months. Organic-market.info has asked what effects this has on organic imports from Turkey.
Italy: Organic sector shows impressive growth
Europe, Italy
28.08.2018Data collected by Nielsen confirm a positive trend in the Italian organic market. The numbers presented at the shareholders' meeting of AssoBio, show that organic food sales within large-scale retail exceeded 1.5 bn euros.
Organic Food Iberia 2019: Major new organic trade fair in Madrid
Europe, Spain
14.08.2018 EditorAccording to event organiser Diversified Communications, the new trade show Organic Food Iberia will open at the IFEMA exhibition centre in Madrid in 2019.
Poland: Warsaw University offers studies "Organic Agriculture and Food Production”
Europe, Poland
21.06.2018 EditorThe Faculty of Agriculture and Biology at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences (SGGW), will launch the new international studies "Organic Agriculture and Food Production (OAFP).”
Denmark generates organic record growth in 2017
Europe, Denmark
10.05.2018 EditorNew figures from Statistic Denmark show that the sale of organic food and drink has increased with 31% from 2016 to 2017. The organic market share of the total Danish food sale has now reached 13.3 %.
Organic farming boom in Bulgaria and Croatia
Europe, Balkan States
06.02.2018 EditorAccording to official statistcs Bulgaria and Croatia have seen the highest rate of expansion in their organic farming sectors in the whole of the EU in recent years.
The new Organic Regulation – status quo and outlook
Europe, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania
26.09.2017At the IFOAM EU Organic Congress in Tallinn representatives of the EU and of the organic sector discussed pro and contra of the new European Organic Regulation (video). After a record time of more than three years and 18 trilogues Regulation probably will be launched in June 2020, although neither the Council and Commission nor the Parliament and the stakeholders of the organic sector are fully satisfied with the compromise.
Stavtrend: a cautionary tale of organic fraud
Europe, Slovakia
20.06.2017 Leo FrühschützA Slovak trader sent 2,000 tonnes of what was assumed to be conventional wheat to Germany via Italy. Analysis of the case reveals that the organic control system works, but that things can nevertheless go wrong.
Norway: the 'Doomsday' gene bank
Europe, Norway
02.05.2017 EditorDeep in the bowels of an icy mountain on an island above the Arctic Circle between Norway and the North Pole lies a resource of vital importance for the future of humankind.
Ireland: organic market grows by nearly 24 %
Europe, Ireland
01.02.2017 EditorAs the German Agricultural Market Information Company (Deutsche Agrarmarkt Informationsgesellschaft - AMI) reports, in 2016 the Irish organic market grew by 23.7 % compared with the year before.
German drugstore leader dm has more than 1000 organic products
Europe, Czech Republic
03.11.2016 EditorThe organic food range of the leading German drugstore dm continues to grow and has now reached around 1000 articles. This was announced by the company based in Karlsruhe at its annual press conference.
Organic regulation negotiations, is the end near?
Europe, Slovenia
06.07.2016 EditorLast Friday the Slovak Republic took over the Presidency of the Council of the EU from the Netherlands, and is now the sixth Presidency in a row to work on the organic dossier.
Demeter International adopts leitmotif for future operations
Europe, Finland
05.07.2016 EditorThe Demeter International Members' Assembly was held from 13 to 18 June in Finland. In view of the challenges occurring in our time we need a paradigm shift in agriculture. The Demeter actors from all regions of the world saw in the biodynamic method a holistic model for societal change. Representatives of Demeter and biodynamic associations in 23 countries on five continents gathered to discuss and adopt strategies for taking forward agriculture and the food economy. There was also agreement that new gene technologies like CRISPR-Cas, Cisgenetics and TALEN have to be regulated, since they are technical interventions in cell and genome.
Malta strongly rejects accusations of organics fraud
Europe, Malta
05.05.2016 EditorThe Parliamentary Secretariat for Agriculture has strongly rejected claims that Malta was involved in a scam involving the fraudulent labelling of conventional grain as being organic.
Luxembourg: Organic sector growing slowly
Europe, Luxembourg
24.03.2015Fernand Etgen, the Minister for Agriculture, Viticulture and Consumer Protection, released the latest statistics on organics in Luxembourg.
Tutorial on the use of the OrMaCode
Europe, Greece
27.02.2015The project Data Network for Better European Organic Market Information - OrganicDataNetwork - aims to increase the transparency of the European organic food market.
Organic growth continues on the global level
Europe, Hungary
24.02.2015The latest global data on organic farming has been presented by IFOAM – Organics International and the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL) at the BioFach fair 2015 in Nuremberg. The global organic market increased to 72 billion US Dollars, organic agricultural land worldwide is 43 million hectares.
Portugal: organic cork oak forests provide new jobs
Europe, Portugal
07.03.2013 RedaktionA new concept was found to develop ecological strategies for preserving the old stands of cork oaks.
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