Technical Guides
Organic Potatoes: Cultivating quality – step by step
The booklet was produced by FiBL and the English version was adapted by ORC, as part of the OK-NET Arable project. This guide provides a good basis for achieving high-quality potatoes.
Technical notes on sustainable dairying
A digital handbook for farmers and advisors on various aspects of low-input and organic dairy farming is one of the most important outcomes of the SOLID project .
ORC 2014/2015 Review of Activities
This review of ORC’s activities covers two years, 2014 and 2015. We are pleased that this period saw improvement in the recognition given to organic/agroecological approaches by practitioners, the food industry, citizens and policy makers. As a reflection of this, ORC, working with the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT), was commissioned by Scottish Natural Heritage, on behalf of the Land Use Policy Group of the UK Nature Conservation agen‐ cies, to produce a report on the contribution of agroecology to sus‐ tainable intensification, which was published in spring 2015. Subse‐ quently, Defra has started to reassess the somewhat negative posi‐ tion it had taken to agroforestry in particular.
Further Development of Methodologies for Sustainability Assessment and Monitoring in Organic/Ecological Agriculture
Further development of methodologies for sustainability assessment and monitoring in organic/ecological agriculture
CAP 2014-2020 organic farming and the prospects for stimulating public goods
The 2013 reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) for the 2014–2020 period aimed to be a flagship initiative for the delivery of more environmental and climate friendly agriculture, encapsulated in the slogan “public money for public goods”.
Which tests to use to assess the health of your soil?
As part of the GREATSoils project we have produced Which tests to use to assess the health of your soil? – an informative overview of the various tools and methods currently available.