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- 03/22/2024 : Benefits of agroforestry in the Sahel
- 03/15/2024 : OrganicYieldsUP – a new project to enhance organic crop yields across Europe
- 11/13/2023 : Technical guide on organic bush berry production in Kosovo published
- 11/10/2023 : IntercropVALUES partners meet to share vision, achievements and plans
- 10/21/2021 : Reaching East African farmers with digital training
- 07/01/2021 : Synergies between FiBL field experiment and case studies to promote crop diversification
- 06/04/2021 : New flyer – Crop Diversification: Making European Agriculture More Sustainable
- 03/17/2021 : Workshop on improving the sustainability of intensive organic fruit orchards
- 02/24/2021 : Final conference "Intercropping to boost agroecology in European Agriculture" by ReMIX and DIVERSify
- 02/24/2021 : New reference document on organic production principles and good practice
- 05/05/2020 : Video: Increasing domestic protein supply with intercropping
- 04/28/2020 : Organic Farm Knowledge - A unique resource with tools for farmers across Europe
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Status	FiBL	Title	Start	End
ongoing	CH	Courses for specialist practitioner	01.03.2025	01.03.2028
ongoing	CH	Focus on black-eyed peas: the grain legume for future climate strategies (AugenBlick)	01.01.2025	31.12.2027
ongoing	CH	Production of organic wheat in the Virunga region in eastern Congo	01.01.2025	31.12.2025
ongoing	CH	Non-chemical weed management in medicinal and aromatic plants (COST Action weedingMAPs)	27.09.2024	26.09.2028
ongoing	CH FR	Governance and business models for living labs: rural regeneration hubs for tackling soil health challenges in the Mediterranean region (GOV4ALL)	01.06.2024	28.11.2028
ongoing	CH EU	Improving yields in organic cropping systems (OrganicYieldsUP)	01.02.2024	31.01.2028
ongoing	CH	Pilot trials "Functional biodiversity in brussels sprouts cultivation"	01.01.2024	31.12.2026
ongoing	CH	Agroforestry learning project	01.01.2024	31.12.2027
ongoing	AT	Scientific monitoring of the Geoterra model farm of Liechtenstein Group AG based on agroecological approaches	01.01.2024	31.12.2028
ongoing	CH	Relay intercropping – practice-orientated introduction of a climate-resilient, soil-conserving and resource-efficient plant production system	01.01.2024	31.12.2030
ongoing	CH	Soil disturbance by mechanical equipment in organic farming (STIR)	01.01.2024	31.12.2026
completed	AT	Pilot project Bionet special crops	01.01.2024	31.03.2025
ongoing	CH	Intensification of knowledge sharing for the development of organic sugar beet (VulgBettBio)	01.01.2024	31.12.2026
ongoing	FR	Fruit production in agroforestry and development of water savings: multistate and syntropic mediterranean orchards (PARDESSYM)	01.01.2024	31.12.2027
completed	AT	Agroforestry systems: Type and number survey and contribution to sustain biodiversity	01.10.2023	31.05.2025
completed	AT	StartClim 2023: Agroforestry - how trees on the field can help solve the biodiversity and climate crisis (StartClim 2023: Agroforst)	01.09.2023	30.06.2024
completed	DE	Wirtschaftlichkeitsanalyse der Pelletierung von Kleegras- und Grünlandschnitt in der Ökomodellregion Rhein-Main	01.08.2023	31.05.2024
ongoing	CH	Turning food waste into sustainable soil improvers for better soil health and improved food systems (Waste4Soil)	01.06.2023	31.05.2027
ongoing	CH	Förderung Biozuckerrübenanbau Schweiz	01.04.2023	31.12.2026
ongoing	CH	Regional optimisation concepts for a demand-oriented water supply in fruit production in the region of Lake Constance	01.04.2023	31.03.2026
completed	CH	Organic sweet fennel production in Switzerland (Fenchelprojekt Coop)	27.03.2023	28.02.2025
ongoing	CH	High-Oleic-Sunflower variety trial and advice	01.03.2023	31.12.2025
completed	CH	Develop and strategically expand the "organic sunflower oil" value chain from Switzerland with new impulses	01.03.2023	31.12.2024
ongoing	CH	Fababean and wheat intercropping in the Alpine region	01.01.2023	31.12.2026
ongoing	CH	On-farm testing of thistle and dock control strategies (ChardRum)	01.01.2023	31.12.2026
ongoing	CH	Optimising fertilisation in organic arable farming	01.01.2023	31.12.2025
ongoing	CH EU	Paving the Way towards Digitalisation Enabling Agroecology for European Farming Systems (PATH2DEA)	01.01.2023	31.12.2025
completed	CH	Increasing the economic profitability of wheat and faba bean intercropping (Association blé-féverole)	01.01.2023	31.12.2024
ongoing	CH	Multifunktionale Gründüngen – angepasst und wirksam für den Bioanbau (Mélange de couverts végétaux multifonctionnels)	01.01.2023	31.12.2026
completed	AT	Agroforestry training initiative	01.01.2023	31.12.2024
ongoing	DE	Organic field days 2025	01.01.2023	30.08.2025
completed	AT	Bildungsoffensive zu Anlage und Pflege von Blühstreifen im Ackerbau	01.01.2023	31.12.2024
ongoing	CH	Optimizing the quality and yield of organic wheat through targeted nitrogen fertilization	01.01.2023	31.12.2025
completed	CH	Biodiversity boost through regenerative organic agroforestry in Central Ghana	20.11.2022	30.11.2024
ongoing	CH	Developing Intercropping for agrifood Value chains and Ecosystem Services delivery in Europe and Southern countries (IntercropValuES)	01.11.2022	31.10.2026
ongoing	CH DE EU	Organic seed and plant breeding to accelerate sustainable and diverse food systems in Europe (LiveSeeding)	01.10.2022	30.09.2026
ongoing	CH	Strategies for the adaptation of arable farming systems to climate change and their contribution to climate protection in the Upper Rhine region (KLIMACrops)	01.10.2022	31.12.2025
ongoing	CH	Variety trials in winter oats	01.09.2022	31.12.2025
ongoing	CH	Variety trials rye	01.09.2022	31.12.2025
ongoing	CH	Variety trial of faba beans for feed and food purposes	01.09.2022	31.12.2025
ongoing	CH	Rape in mixed cultivation	01.08.2022	31.12.2026
ongoing	CH	Strip cropping – New ways to control pests and diseases in organic farming (Streifenanbau)	01.07.2022	30.06.2026
completed	DE	Organic field days 2023	01.06.2022	21.10.2023
completed	CH	Cocoa-based dynamic agroforestry and wild Bolivian specialty cocoa value chain development (Amazonia resiliente)	10.04.2022	31.07.2023
ongoing	CH	Torfreduzierte und torffreie Anzuchtsubstrate für Jungpflanzen im produzierenden Gemüsebau (Torfreduktion)	01.04.2022	31.05.2026
ongoing	CH	Farm Adaptation to Climate Risk (RISC)	15.01.2022	31.12.2029
completed	CH	Evidence-based transformation in pesticide governance (TRAPEGO)	01.01.2022	31.12.2024
completed	AT	Market gardening - innovation to strengthen the Austrian supply of fresh vegetables	01.01.2022	31.12.2024
completed	FR	Towards agroforestry in fruit growing: multi-layer & syntropic systems for climate change resilience and water protection	01.01.2022	31.12.2022
ongoing	CH	Organic conservation agriculture: weed management and soil quality (Adventisol)	01.01.2022	31.12.2025
completed	CH	Microbiome Lighthouse Project	01.01.2022	31.12.2023
completed	CH	Establishment of a modern apricot production in the German-speaking part of Switzerland	01.01.2022	31.12.2024
ongoing	AT CH	MIcro- and NAno-Plastics in AGRIcultural Soils: sources, environmental fate and impacts on ecosystem services and overall sustainability (MINAGRIS)	01.09.2021	31.08.2026
completed	CH	Improving the shelf life of organic beetroots - Influence of different production strategies	01.05.2021	30.04.2025
completed	CH	Bio Körnerleguminosen für Ernährung Schweiz	01.04.2021	31.12.2023
completed	CH	Improving organic hemp cultivation (Bio Suisse Hanf)	01.01.2021	31.12.2024
completed	CH	Blue and white lupin (Lupin bleu et lupin blanc)	01.01.2021	31.12.2021
completed	CH	Organic beet plantation (PlantBett VD)	01.01.2021	31.12.2022
completed	CH	Optimization of non-chemical weed management in aromatic and medicinal plants (OGAPAM)	01.11.2020	01.05.2025
completed	CH	Multi-actor and transdisciplinary development of efficient and resilient MIXED farming and agroforestry-systems (MIXED)	01.10.2020	31.03.2025
completed	CH	Breeding to establish Swiss peas in agriculture and human nutrition (ZESELE)	01.10.2020	30.09.2024
ongoing	CH	Synergistic use and protection of natural resources for rural livelihoods through systematic integration of crops, shrubs and livestock in the Sahel (SustainSAHEL)	01.09.2020	01.09.2025
ongoing	CH	Sustainable Plant Protection Transition: A Global Approach (SPRINT)	01.09.2020	31.12.2025
completed		Etablierung des Lavendelanbaus im Mühlviertel - Kultivierungsversuche, Entwicklung von Ernte- und Aufbereitungstechniken sowie Produktentwicklung (Mühlviertler Granit Lavendel)	01.08.2020	31.07.2022
completed	DE CH	Overcoming the physical and mental barriers for upscaling Conservation Agriculture in the Mediterranean (ConServeTerra)	01.07.2020	30.06.2024
completed	CH	Knowledge Centre for Organic Agriculture and Agroecology in Africa (KCOA)	01.04.2020	29.02.2024
completed	CH	PROMISE – Sustainable protein supply with species mixtures in Switzerland – focus on pea and lentil (PROMISE)	01.02.2020	31.01.2024
completed	CH	Role of crop diversification in livelihood improvement of Indian organic cotton growers	17.01.2020	31.10.2020
completed	DE	Organization and implementation of the organic field days 2021	13.01.2020	31.10.2022
completed	CH	Maize intercropping for silage (Maïs associé pour ensilage)	01.01.2020	31.12.2023
completed	CH	Cultivar testing and optimizing the cultivation of white and narrow-leafed lupin	01.01.2020	31.12.2023
completed	CH	Boosting Innovation in Organic FRUIT production through strong knowledge NETworks (BIOFRUITNET)	01.11.2019	30.04.2023
completed	CH	Training materials and courses for best practices in organic and dynamic Cocoa Agroforestry systems	01.11.2019	30.09.2022
completed	CH	Food Systems Caravan	01.09.2019	31.12.2021
completed	CH	Going Bananas: Restoring Livelihoods of Conflict Affected Farmers in Cotabato (Going Bananas)	01.07.2019	31.12.2020
completed	AT	Erosion protection and resource conservation in organic maize cultivation	01.05.2019	31.12.2023
completed	CH	Relay intercropping – Further developing a resource-conserving cultivation system for soya in mixed culture in practice	30.04.2019	31.12.2021
completed	CH	Influence of different fertilizers on yield and quality of organic potatoes	01.01.2019	31.12.2022
completed	CH	Unterstützung des Biozuckerrübenanbaus in der Schweiz	01.01.2019	31.03.2023
completed	CH	Neue Wege im Pflanzenschutz im Bio-Obstbau: Entwicklung und Evaluation von IT-gestützten Pflanzenschutzverfahren im FiBL-Freiluft-Labor	01.01.2019	31.12.2021
ongoing	CH	New ways in plant protection in organic fruit growing: Development and evaluation of IT-supported plant protection methods and a new training system	01.01.2019	31.12.2026
completed	CH	Legumes Translated (Translating knowledge for legume-based farming for feed and food systems) (Legumes Translated)	01.11.2018	30.04.2022
completed	AT	Boosting 4 BEST practices for SOIL health in Europe (BEST4SOIL)	01.11.2018	31.03.2022
completed	AT	Ressourcenverbrauch und Umweltwirkungen von Bewässerungstechniken	01.08.2018	26.10.2018
completed	CH	Breeding for Resilient, Efficient and Sustainable Organic Vegetable production (BRESOV)	01.05.2018	30.04.2023
completed	CH	Organic and bio-dynamic vegetable production in low-energy GREENhouses – sustainable, RESILIENT and innovative food production systems (Greenresilient)	02.04.2018	01.10.2021
completed	DE	Organisation und Durchführung der Öko-Feldtage 2019	01.03.2018	31.08.2019
completed	CH	Networking European Farms to Enhance Cross Fertilisation and Innovation Uptake through Demonstration (NEFERTITI)	01.01.2018	30.09.2022
completed	CH	Day of organic arable farming 2019	01.01.2018	31.12.2019
completed	CH	Use of robots for efficient weed control	01.01.2018	31.12.2021
completed	CH	Soil fertility innovation hub: selfdiagnosis and advice (Progrès Sol)	01.09.2017	31.12.2022
completed	CH	Diversification through Rotation, Intercropping, Multiple Cropping, Promoted by Actors and Value Chains towards Sustainability (DiverIMPACTS)	01.05.2017	30.04.2022
completed	CH	ReMIX - Redesigning European cropping systems based on species MIXtures (ReMIX)	01.05.2017	30.04.2021
completed	CH	Guidance values for soil organic matter in arable soils. Opportunities for implementation.	01.04.2017	31.08.2018
completed	CH	Peer-to-peer Learning: Accessing Innovation through Demonstration (PLAID)	01.01.2017	30.06.2019
completed	CH	Variety trials maize	01.01.2017	31.12.2020
completed	CH	Alternatives to ploughing in organic agriculture	01.01.2017	31.12.2019
completed	CH	Introduction of "Precision farming" into Swiss organic farming	01.01.2017	31.12.2020
completed	DE	Öko-Feldtage 2017	01.07.2016	30.09.2017
completed	CH	PGREL project "Use of gene resources in apples for organic farming" (Nutzung von Apfel-Genressourcen für den Bio-Anbau)	01.01.2016	29.02.2020
completed	CH	Mixed crops Fribourg	01.02.2015	31.12.2017
ongoing	CH	Delightful organic apple	01.01.2015	31.12.2025
completed	CH	Biofertilization and "bioirrigation" for sustainable mixed cropping of pigeon pea and finger millet (ISCB_BIOFI_BT)	01.05.2014	30.05.2017
completed	CH	Breeding research on anthracnose tolerance and intercropping of lupin	01.01.2014	31.12.2023
completed	CH	Dissemination of reduced tillage in the organic farming sector	01.01.2013	31.12.2017
completed	CH	Efficient Forage Based Ruminant Systems (EFBS)	01.01.2012	31.12.2016
completed	CH	Intercroping of cereals and grain legumes - Steps towards increased domestic protein production	01.01.2010	31.12.2014
completed	CH	Optimierung von biologischen Anbausystemen (Schwerpunkt Birnenanbau)	01.01.2009	31.12.2011
completed	CH	Förderung von arbuskulären Mykorrhizapilzen in einer Chenopodiaceae-Mais-Fruchtfolge durch Untersaaten	01.01.2008	31.03.2011
completed	CH	Optimierung des biologischen Gemüsebaus durch Gründüngung und Fruchtfolge	01.01.2003	31.12.2005
completed	CH	Anbau bolivianischer Kartoffelsorten (Exotische Kartoffelsorten aus Bolivien)	01.01.2002	31.05.2011
completed	CH	Optimierung der Anbautechnik von Zierpflanzen und Topfkräutern	01.01.2002	31.12.2005

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