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Improved access to knowledge and innovations in organic agriculture holds great potential for Improving food security, raising the productivity of smallholders worldwide and contributing to sustainable economic, environmental and social development.

This creates stable production systems that also enable small farmers to no longer be dependent on expensive agrochemistry. In addition, there is great potential to improve access for organic farmers to regional and international markets. With this objective in mind, Naturland actively participates in various international development projects.

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Projects

Projects: International commitment

Rwanda: supporting organic coffee production

The goal of the project is to promote skills development, organizational capacity building and adoption of best practices of Rwandan organic coffee farmers and strengthen their position in the organic value chain.

Philippines: Supporting smallholders

The aim of this project is to actively improve the living conditions of smallholders.

Go Organic Georgia

The aim of this collaboration is to strengthen Georgian organic associations. The initiative involves expanding and improving the range of services offered in organic farming in the north-western regions of Georgia.

Serbia & Slovenia: Carbon balances

The aim of this collaborative project with the Agricultural Institute of Slovenia (KIS) and the Institute of Fruit and Vegetable Crops Serbia (IFVC) is to improve the humus balance and carbon storage capacity of soil.

Uganda: Strengthening organic structures

The aim of this project is to strengthen farming organisations within the coffee sector. The main focal areas of this project are to further develop organisations and address specific practical issues.

Vietnam: Strengthening Organic Agriculture

The aim of the project is to strengthen the Vietnam Organic Agricultural Association as the umbrella organisation for organic agriculture.

Burundi: Organic coffee production

Naturland supports the provision of conversion advice to enable coffee cultivation to be moved away from monoculture towards sustainable, diverse mixed cropping in agroforestry systems with fruit or timber trees.

Peru: Organic coffee without pesticide contamination

During training workshops in coffee cooperatives, the risks at various stages of the value chain are analysed together with those responsible for the cultivation, purchase, processing and marketing of organic coffee.

Sustainable aquaculture in mangrove forests

The aim of the project is to promote sustainable aquaculture systems with a focus on mangrove protection and the improvement of local living conditions, both in the producing countries and along the international value chains.

Innovation for smallholders

The objective of this cooperation with seven Green Innovation Centres is to increase the productivity of smallholder farms in Africa and India in an economically, environmentally and socially sustainable way through improved access to knowledge and innovation in organic agriculture.

Organic in Morocco

Naturland supports the Moroccan organic association FIMABIO in further developing the organic sector in Morocco and thus creating new employment opportunities in the North African country.

Projects: Research & Network

BEATLES

The EU project BEATLES aims at systemic and systematic behavioural changes towards climate-friendly agriculture and smart agricultural technologies,

LIVING INCOME

The aim of Living Income is to examine family household situations and to search for strategies for action to close the gap between real household income and a living wage for the family.

mEATQuality

The aim of mEATQuality is to provide consumers with high-quality pork and broiler meat.

MERLIN

The MERLIN project analyses the social, economic and environmental success factors of 17 case studies.

Biofruitnet

The project collects and summarises existing knowledge on organic fruit production in Europe, presents best practice examples in a comprehensible way and creates a stable European network.

FutureEUAqua

The aim is to promote the sustainable growth of climate-change-resilient, environmentally friendly aquaculture in Europe. This is due to the growing consumer demand for good quality, responsibly produced food from aquaculture.

Ecobreed

24 partner organisations from 15 countries develop methods, strategies and infrastructure for organic plant breeding. Their aim is to develop high-quality varieties with improved stress resistance.

Nefertiti

In this project, Naturland’s role is to manage the "Nutrient efficiency in horticulture" and "Shaping agriculture: Innovative ways to success" subgroups. The aim is to develop new ideas for sustainable farm concepts.

Relacs

RELACS promotes the development and implementation of cost-effective and environmentally friendly tools and technologies to reduce the use of copper in crop protection, identify sustainable sources of nutrients for crop nutrition and provide solutions to support animal welfare.

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