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BIOFACH will take place in Nuremberg and online from 10 to 13 February 2026 and puts young players in the organic sector in the [...]

Soil is one of the fundamental resources of our lives, and World Soil Day on 5th December provides an annual opportunity to remind ourselves [...]

This year, the 2nd edition of the International Forum of Agroecosystem Living Labs (IF-ALL) took place in Bordeaux, France, between 15 and 17 October, [...]

The FORTUNA poster "Future innovation for pesticide use reduction: Mapping research and solutions for sustainable weed control in European cropping systems" was presented at [...]

The Hungarian Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (ÖMKi) received the Agricultural Digital Excellence Special Award presented by the Agricultural European Digital Innovation Hub (AEDIH) [...]

Hosted by Society for Territorial and Environmental Prosperity (STEP) in Sofia, Bulgaria, from June 3 to June 5, 2025, the 4th co-innovation workshop (CiW4) [...]

The blog series of Path2Dea project "Voices from the Field" published an interview with Anna and Dániel, partners of ÖMKi, Hungarian farmers in the [...]

Nowadays, there is a growing interest in more natural foods, sustainable farming methods, and the rediscovery of ancient dishes and flavours—including forgotten grain varieties. [...]

 IFOAM Organics Europe criticizes a CAP proposal that ringfences budget only for income support in the form of area-based payments and leaves it up [...]

From April 7th to the 9th, the BOOST4BIOEAST  project meeting and the Annual BIOEAST Bioeconomy Conference , held at the Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences in Bucharest [...]

European Consortium led by Aarhus University to develop innovative solutions to restore soil health and boost climate resilience in agriculture A new initiative, [...]

‘Roots of resilence – enhancing biodiversity through agroecology’ – virtual roadshow Wednesday 9th July 10:00 – 12:00 CET Farmers, environmental scientists and policy [...]

The Agroecology-TRANSECT project, with ÖMKi as a key partner, is running a Europe-wide citizen science campaign, and invites volunteers to take part in a butterfly [...]

From March 24 to 27, 2025, partners of the Organic Yields UP (OYUP) project came together in Pisa, Italy, for the project’s annual General [...]

Implementation practices of agroecology-relevant measures in national Common Agricultural Policies (CAPs) across the BIOEAST region The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) [...]

Strengthening collaboration among EU projects for pesticide-free agriculture On 18–19 February 2025, a joint meeting of EU-funded projects FORTUNA  and T0P-AGRI-Network  took place [...]

ÖMKi’s researchers visited the Institutes for Agricultural Research and Educational Farms of the University of Debrecen, the Research Institute of Újfehértó on the 14th [...]

On the 6th February, 2025, in the education facility of the Experimental Vineyard and Winery of the Eszterházy Károly Catholic University, farmers and experts [...]

The thematic knowledge exchange event "Forage production and carbon farming in the climate change" was organized by the ClimateSmartAdvisors project, in cooperation with the [...]

January We published the results of the first year of our citizen science project called Pók-Háló (Spider Web). Three new international scientific publications [...]

BIOFACH will take place in Nuremberg and online from 11 to 14 February 2025. The focus will be on trends and innovations to promote change [...]

Do you operate a living lab (LL) or a research infrastructure (RI) that is actively contributing to the agroecology transition? Are you interested in [...]

Today, strong interest is shown in this issue: are organic foods from organic farming healthier than their conventional, mass-produced counterparts? Are there measurable differences [...]

Join us at the EU4Advice & CoreNet & CleverFood Conference and Policy Workshop on 4th December 2024, at Central European University, Budapest, Hungary (Nádor Street [...]

The Hungarian Reserach Institute of Organic Agriculture - ÖMKi's arable land, horticultural, animal husbandry and agri-informatics teams work across the country every field season, [...]

The AGROECOLOGY Partnership (72 partners from 26 countries) kicked off early this year - coordinated by the Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany -, has the ambitious [...]

The Hungarian Presidency of the Council of the EU, in close cooperation with the European Commission, the Standing Committee on Agricultural Research (SCAR), and [...]

FiBL Open Day – Organic transformation of food systems Online event of FiBL On 27 November 2024, the FiBL Group invites you to [...]

International and national organic farming experts met in Budapest for the 18th European Organic Congress. The event focused on the challenges and prospects of [...]

European Organic Congress 2024 Building a common vision for the future of food & agriculture On 10-12 September, the European Organic Congress (EOC) presents [...]

  OrganicAdviceNetwork project kick-off marks the beginning of the first European network of organic advisors In April 2024, the OrganicAdviceNetwork project, funded by the [...]

The Organic Yields UP EU-funded project (2024-2028) officially began on 1 February and had its kick-off meeting from the 27th to the 28th of [...]

Boosting the bioeconomy transformation for the Central and Eastern European and Baltic countries The Research Institute for Organic Agriculture (ÖMKi) for the very first [...]

IFOAM Organics Europe’s press release BRUSSELS, 24 APRIL 2024 – Today’s vote on the Plant Reproductive Material Regulation (PRM) legislation could contribute to a [...]

Last week, about 100 participants attended the kick-off meeting of the AGROECOLOGY Partnership at Bluepoint Brussels. AGROECOLOGY is the Horizon Europe co-funded Partnership ‘Accelerating [...]

The role of national HUBs in national and macro-regional bioeconomy policies and R&I priorities in the BIOEAST countries An Annual Bioeconomy Conference addressing political [...]

The area devoted to soybean cultivation in Hungary has expanded in recent years, today covering some 60,000 ha. Organic soybean cultivation, meanwhile, has almost doubled [...]

On June 22, 2021, we held a professional day entitled ‘Diversified biological foundations and agrotechnologies serving sustainability’ at the Csoroszlya organic farm in Szár, [...]