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Organic agriculture more resistent to drought

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06.06.2016 Editor

Since 1981, the Rodale Institute, America’s oldest organic research institute, has conducted North America’s longest side-by-side farming systems trial.

IFOAM Organic World Congress: Call for papers

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24.05.2016 Editor

Every three years sector stakeholders come together at the Organic World Congress (OWC), the world’s largest and most significant organic gathering.

Alternative technologies to combat crop infestation

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06.05.2016 Editor

With non-pesticide methods of farming perceived as ineffective, a Norwegian farmer has taken destiny into his own hands to combat the D. radicum ‘cabbage fly’ that destroys Brassica crops including cauliflower, broccoli and cabbage.

The extermination of Honeybees

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24.03.2016 Editor

For the last decade, honeybees have been disappearing at an alarming rate, says the site Consumer Affairs

Open calls for the Organic World Congress 2017

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16.03.2016 Editor

The 19th Organic World Congress of IFOAM - Organics International, will take place from 09th to the 11th of November 2017 in India, now opens its Call for Papers.

BioFach: IFOAM Science Day 2016

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08.02.2016 Editor

On February 12, 2016, the fourth Science Day will take place at BioFach, in Nuremberg, Germany. It is a joint event of TIPI, the Technology Innovation Platform of IFOAM and TP Organics, the European Technology Platform for Organic Food and Farming.

SOLMACC: Strategies for organic and low-input farming

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01.02.2016 Editor

SOLMACC - Organic FArmers Countering Climate Change is a LIFE-co-funded project that runs from 2013 to 2018.

Monsanto providing for “scientific” research

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06.01.2016 Editor

Documents released in a freedom of information request by US Right to Know (USRTK) shed light into the increasingly nasty and divisive public relations war over GMOs.

USA: Call for inputs for the Organic Seed Growers Conference

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15.06.2015

Organic Seed Alliance invites to help shape the 8th Organic Seed Growers Conference by providing proposals for content.

TIPI: Global Organic Innovation Platform

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19.05.2015 Kai Kreuzer

Global and European organic technology platforms present their visions and strategies for organic food and farming research on Science Day, held on February 13, 2015 at the global organic fair BioFach in Nürnberg. The Technology Innovation Platform of IFOAM (TIPI) discussed the second draft of its vision and strategy for organic farming research and in particular its action plan.

Nature´s Secrets: Sri Lankan Natural Cosmetics

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29.04.2015

The Sri Lankan Company Nature's Beauty Creations (NBC) with its natural cosmetics brand Nature's Secrets is the largest and leading manufacturer of herbal cosmetics in Sri Lanka. NBC has its own medicinal plant garden and Plant Research Centre on the west coast of Sri Lanka.

Glyphosate: poisoning the globe continues

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24.04.2015

Glyphosate is the most commonly used active ingredient in non-selective herbicides worldwide and in recent years a large number of studies and investigations have been published that prove how dangerous it is. A short time ago, the World Health Organization (WHO) classified this poison as “probably carcinogenic”.

Organic Proteins from green crops are promising poultry feed

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13.04.2015 Redaktion

Proteins extracted from organic green crops have potential to substitute imported protein feed according to an article which was published on the website of the Danish research institute UCROFS.