Forschungsinstitut für biologischen Landbau FiBL

July 2026

 

News

 

A hand is touching the plants in a mixed pea and barley crop.

Schoolchildren discover pulses with FiBL

Incorporating pulses such as peas, lentils, soya beans and chickpeas in our diets significantly contributes to addressing major global challenges,…

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Summer School 2026: Handling the complexity of organic plant breeding

In mid-July 2026, the LiveSeeding project and ECO-PB held their Summer School at the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), Spain, bringing…

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OrganicTargets4EU delivers lasting knowledge resources for Europe's organic transition

After four years of collaboration, the Horizon Europe project OrganicTargets4EU has concluded, providing policymakers, researchers and practitioners…

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FiBL and GALILEO at the World Congress of Rural Sociology in Brazil

FiBL researchers attended the World Congress of Rural Sociology in Porto Alegre, where social scientists discussed agroecology, food systems, and the…

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Food and Feed Omnibus proposal: FiBL highlights key scientific considerations

The European Commission has presented its Food and Feed Omnibus package, a proposal that aims to simplify regulatory procedures while maintaining high…

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Cross-border learning in organic arable farming

In June, a group of twelve agricultural advisers from nine countries, along with nine experts from Poland, visited the DOK trial, several organic…

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Long-lived dairy cows: ecological and economic benefits

Around 40 per cent of Swiss dairy cows are culled before the end of their second lactation – far earlier than is sensible for environmental and…

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Mariateresa Lazzaro.

Voices on Climate: "Diversity within a cultivar is ideal for climate resilience"

The next contribution in our "Voices on Climate" series comes from Mariateresa Lazzaro. It explores the role that plant breeding can play in climate…

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Farmers from across Europe discuss biodiversity and economic viability in Romania

The first international knowledge exchange within the EU’s FarmBioNet project focused on species-rich meadows and pastures of Transylvania in Romania.…

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Long-term study from Bolivia: Agroforestry systems and organic farming deliver impressive cocoa yields

Sustainable farming systems such as organic farming and complex agroforestry systems can achieve cocoa yields that far exceed the average yields of…

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Dóra Drexler elected President of IFOAM Organics Europe

Dóra Drexler will head IFOAM Organics Europe in future. The director of the Hungarian Research Institute for Organic Agriculture (ÖMKi), which was…

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Agroecology in West Africa: A project comes to an end – but the network lives on

The West African Agroecology Conference took place in Benin at the end of March. The conference marked the conclusion of the CARE-r4d project, which…

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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

 

Publications

 

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"Cows and climate": Factsheet now available in English

Ruminants are often criticised for their methane emissions. A factsheet by FiBL Switzerland and the organic association Bio Suisse shows that…

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Events

 

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Yours sincerely,
Andreas Basler and Helga Willer

 

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