Supply Chain Perspectives on Breeding for Legume–Cereal Intercrops
The widespread adoption of intercroping will only succeed through the collaboration of all supply chain actors, breeding approaches that take into account the complexity of the supply chains, and implementation of diversification strategies in every process from field to fork.
Overcoming barriers to crop diversification uptake in Europe: A mini review
Review shows that addressing barriers to crop diversification by farmers requires a simultaneous and coordinated approach.
Organic arable crop yield survey
Please help us improve the reliability of the Organic Farm Management Handbook data by supplying your arable crop results from last harvest.
Research Webinar: Diversifying our approach to cereal breeding with plant populations
Watch this ORC webinar for an overview of current research on plant populations, what this approach can offer, what we still need to understand and how we might get policy-makers to support wider use of such genetically diverse cereals.
Farewell and thanks to Roger Kerr
North of England Agroforestry Living Lab
The Organic Research Centre and the EU Horizon Europe-funded REFOREST project are looking for agroforestry farmers and stakeholders to be part of the North of England Living Lab.
Scientific study shows synthetic pesticides significantly more dangerous than natural ones
More organic farming means less pesticide use and risk
European organic farmland and market continued to grow in 2021
Increasing by almost 4%, the European organic market reached another high in 2021: 54.5 billion euros. Organic farmland expanded by almost 0.8 m ha.
Organic Hop Varieties field lab two year report
The Second year of results from the organic hops field lab are now available to read. This field lab aims to help organic and low-input hop growers find suitable varieties of hops for organic farming.
Organic market delivers strong performance in exceptionally challenging year
UK organic market shows positive and robust growth of 1.6% in 2022 topping £3.1 billion in an unprecedented and challenging year for business and consumers