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Conservation advice for organic farming - development and optimization of counseling approaches for the integration of conservation objectives on organic farms
Project
Project code: 2803OE282
Contract period: 15.07.2004
- 31.12.2007
Budget: 204,912 Euro
Purpose of research: Public relations
The starting point of the project is the project completed in December 2003 02OE459 'conservation advice for organic farming - a feasibility study for the integration of conservation objectives on organic farms', which was in the Federal Association of Organic Agriculture (BÖL) promoted. In the course of this project it became clear that the conditions studied for conservation advice in the states of strongly different. The final report should be noted that there was neither reasonable nor possible due to the different conditions, the creation of a universal concept of institutionalization. Rather, it is therefore desirable for the institutionalization in other states besides the pilot region of Lower Saxony in fact exploit the unique opportunities and conditions and use. At this point ties in with the proposed project here. For a three-year pilot phase to a nationally available coordination site is created, the (federations officials, conservation and organic farming) as a catalyst and partner for initiative stakeholders to serve on the establishment of Farm counseling approaches for organic farms in other states. Thus, the players connected and the integration of conservation objectives in organic farming can be promoted. For the states of Bavaria, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia on the preparatory work of the previous project and contacts can be established. Furthermore, the contacts with actors in the federal states of Schleswig-Holstein, Rhineland-Palatinate, Hesse, Thuringia and Saxony-Anhalt is provided, the applicant has been there through contacts. For the remaining surface states of Saarland, Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and no specific contacts are known. The contact and cooperation is planned in the project.
Section overview
Subjects
- Agroeconomics
Framework programme
Federal Organic Farming Scheme and other forms of sustainable agriculture (BÖLN)