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October 2025

 

News

 

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Voices on climate: "Reducing emissions remains the best adaptation measure"

In the latest episode of "Voices on Climate", we interviewed Felix Wertli. The environmental ambassador working for the Federal Office for the…

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ABIM 2025: Where the biocontrol industry, policymakers and global leaders meet

The 2025 Annual Biocontrol Industry Meeting (ABIM) took place from 20 to 22 October at the Congress Centre Basel, Switzerland. It was hosted by FiBL…

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Register now: European online basic course on organic farming

The Europe-wide basic course on organic farming is about to start – over 1.500 participants from more than 21 countries have already signed up. Secure…

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Swiss Soil Orchestra: FiBL leads an art-based soil network

The Swiss Soil Orchestra, one of eight orchestras in the EU Horizon project SOILSCAPE, held its kick-off meeting on 1 October 2025 at FiBL in Frick,…

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FiBL contributes to successful first PRO-WILD Annual Meeting in Vienna

The first annual meeting of the Horizon Europe-funded project PRO-WILD took place at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna.…

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Group photo from the 2nd network meeting in Bordeaux, 2025.

Agroecology Living Labs and Research Infrastructures – the network keeps growing

From 13 to 15 October 2025, this year’s meeting of the European Network of Agroecology Living Labs and Research Infrastructures took place in Cestas…

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Organics in wartime – Ukraine remains an important export country

Since 2022, conditions for producers in Ukraine have become very difficult due to the war. Despite this − or precisely for that reason − FiBL…

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InnOFoodLabs kicks off to boost organic value chains

FiBL coordinates and has a key role in the new Horizon Europe project InnOFoodLabs. The project brings together farmers, researchers, businesses and…

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Helmy Abouleish.

Voices on climate: "Building up living soil is crucial here in Egypt, too"

With Helmy Abouleish, this instalment of the "Voices on Climate" series features a practitioner. He is the managing director of the Egyptian Sekem…

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Podcast: transparency on farmers' incomes

The economic situation of farmers and their role within the food supply chain are topics of intense debate across Europe. A new episode of the FiBL…

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Getting ready for a new narrative on sustainable development

From 23 to 27 September 2025, Sekem in Egypt, together with the World Goetheanum Association, hosted the international conference “Re-Think, Re-Feel,…

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FiBL and ITAB presenting the French input list at Tech&Bio

FiBL's collaboration with its partners in FRance was strengthened at the 2025 edition of the Tech&Bio international trade fair. The French Input List…

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Shaping the future of animal husbandry: registration open for IAHA Conference 2026

You can now register for the international IFOAM Animal Husbandry Alliance (IAHA) Conference 2026 on organic animal husbandry from 28 to 30 April 2026…

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Further news in German

Further FiBL news are available in German. You can find them here: www.fibl.org/de/infothek/nachrichtenarchiv

 

Events

 

28-30 April 2026

IFOAM Animal Husbandry Alliance Conference 2026

FiBL, Frick, Switzerland and online

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FiBL events in other languages

FiBL events in other languages can be viewed at

www.fibl.org/en/info-centre/events

 

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Yours sincerely,
Andreas Basler and Helga Willer

 

The joint newsletter of FiBL Switzerland, FiBL Germany, FiBL Austria, FiBL France and FiBL Europe is usually published monthly.
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