Sustainable Consumer Goods
Organic farming is dependent on the use of externally produced pesticides. Often, copper-based pesticides are used here, while in the Mediterranean region they are also mineral oil-based. However, their use is controversial. The European research project RELACS is looking for alternatives.
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Top marks in terms of exhibitors, exhibition space and internationality – the trade fair duo BIOFACH, the world’s leading trade fair for organic food, and VIVANESS, International Trade Fair for
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The view that conventional products are cheaper to produce than organic ones is wrong. The reason: the costs for society as a whole are not taken into account.
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The demand for organic products is on the rise. However, ecologically valuable areas are increasingly competing with energy crop cultivation, compensation or settlement areas. The StadtLandBio initiative now wants to take countermeasures.
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The EU’s common agricultural policy (CAP) is reformed every seven years. The regulation drafts which the EU Commission has presented in 2018, provide for both economic and ecological measures.
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Bablu Ganguly is co-founder of the Timbaktu Collective. Since its beginnings, it has become a best practice example that has improved quality of life in rural areas and provides an array of prospects for the future.
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In an interview Prof. Dr. Bernhard Freyer, head of the Institute of Organic Agriculture at the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences (BOKU) in Vienna, explains the positive effects of organic farming on our soils.
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