The German brewery Neumarkter Lammsbräu has issued a warning to the Danone Group on behalf of the Quality Association for Organic Mineral Water and numerous medium-sized mineral wells. Because its mineral water subsidiary Volvic advertises its water with the terms “Naturally organic” and “Premium mineral water in organic quality”. “Volvic is not organic mineral water […]
What’s the best way to manage Agroecological Service Crops? Comparing the usual management of ASC as green manure vs the use of roller crimper in a no till system, SoilVeg found that the latter generate an higher overall environment benefit, although with lower yields. SoilVeg is an applied research European project involving 9 European countries and 14 […]
A lot of yield on a small area – for organic farmers this should be possible with elaborated organic cultivation methods. Examples have been outlined at the conference “New concepts for an agro-ecological and future-oriented agriculture”. They were presented by the German foundation “Ökologie&Landbau” together with the network “Öko-Junglandwirte” and the University of Kiel. Les jardins de la grelinette Man instead […]
For the first time the 6th International Conference on Organic Agriculture Sciences (ICOAS) was held in Austria from 7 – 9 November. High-level international experts met at Esterházy Palace, Eisenstadt, to exchange knowledge and experiences from different areas of organic production. The three-day conference was organized as a joint project by the Research Institute of […]
