INRA and University of Bordeaux (France) propose a PhD position on potential limitation of organic farming development by limited availability of nutrients at the global scale.

ICROFS has the lead in organising two Master Classes on mutual learning within the PLATFORM project funded by Horizon2020 - a network of ERA-nets in the bio-economy area.

It is possible to improve the health and welfare in organic pig production and at the same time minimize the environmental impact, without any significant additional costs. A newly published handbook shows the farmers how.

Allan Leck Jensen represented ICROFS at the 10th International Conference on Open Repositories in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. The participants showed great interest in ICROFS’ subject specific repository Organic Eprints.

The main aim of the ISOFAR world board meeting was to discuss the ISOFAR Organic 3.0 Scientific Symposium in Korea on Sept. 20th -22nd, 2015 in conjunction with the ISOFAR 2015 Goesan International Organic Expo and the scientific track for the Organic World Congress 2017 in India.

The ProGrOV Ugandan partner Makerere University are collaborating with Agriit Institute to explore all avenues in bringing light to the research on organic agriculture in Uganda as initiated by ProGrOV.

The complexity of organic farming requires that farmers have a very high level of knowledge and skills, but the knowledge-sharing about farming techniques is limited. The new project aims to boost knowledge exchange between organic farmers, advisers and researchers.

At the Universal Expo in Milan, the most innovative European farmers were invited to exchange their experiences with organic food and ingredient production at the conference: "Organic production, Research and Innovation: Setting priorities for the future", organised by the European Commission.

Legume-based catch crops can replace a part of the animal manure used in organic rotations without elevating the N2O emissions substantially according to the research projects HighCrop and Legume Futures.

This 6 month position will include assistance to the administration of the projects and programmes that ICROFS is responsible for as coordinator or otherwise engaged in as well as the maintenance and development of the international archive on publication on research in organic agriculture and food systems, Organic Eprints.