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Type of documents
 
Year
 
Topic
 
Official letters
05/03/2024
Water

Nature-based water resilience cannot wait

Open letter: Nature-based water resilience cannot wait Brussels, 5 March 2024 Dear European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, We…
29/04/2021
Biodiversity Soil

IFOAM Organics Europe contribution to the public consultation on new EU Soil Strategy

27/04/2021
Animal welfare Food policy

Ending the use of cages in animal farming

Ending the use of cages in animal farming. “End the cage age” ECI received 1.4 million verified signatures from every…
01/03/2021
Fairness & transparency

Two months left to transpose the EU Unfair Trading Practices Directive

29/05/2019
Organic regulations Seeds

Common letter to the European Commission on the Organic Regulation 2018/848 and the upcoming Delegated Act on "Organic Heterogeneous Materials"

19/11/2015
Organic regulations

On organic aquaculture - Use of non-organic juvenils on Organic Production

18/11/2015
Organic regulations

On the upcoming Trilogue Negotiations on the New Organic Regulation

22/05/2015
Fairness & transparency

Request to include the Land as a Resource Communication in the 2016 Work Programme of the European Commision

24/02/2015
Fairness & transparency

Petition to the European Parliament 'Preserving and managing European farmland as our common wealth: A CSO Call for a sustainable and fair EU governance of farmland

Reports and studies
22/02/2021
Agroecology

Roots of Resilience: Land Policy for an Agroecological transition in Europe

Read the policy report report “Roots of resilience: Land policy for an agroecological transition in Europe” in EnglishRead the executive…
27/01/2021
Agroecology

A 10+13 agroecology approach to shape policies and transform eu food systems

This policy paper puts forward a proposal to mainstream agroecology into the policies governing EU food systems. It builds on…
23/09/2019
Climate change Fairness & transparency Soil Water

Organic Agriculture and the Sustainable Development Goals – Part of the Solution

Institute: EOSTA and Nature & More – Author: Simon de Schaetzen 
08/08/2019
Climate change Soil

Climate Change and Land - An IPCC special report on climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems

Institute: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)  – Authors: 107 experts from 52 countries 
Press releases
18/07/2024
EU Green Deal Fairness & transparency Food systems

Welcome back, Ms von der Leyen. EU organic looks forward to continue transforming our rural areas & food systems

Re-election Ms von der Leyen as President of the EU Commission took place today, 18 July 2024, with 401 votes…
05/09/2023
Agroecology Food security TP Organics

Organic and agroecological farming are the best guarantee for long-term food security

Brussels, 5 September 2023 – At today’s high-level expert webinar “Safeguarding long-term food security“, TP Organics, the European Technology Platform…
23/02/2023
Agroecology Plant health care

Scientific study shows synthetic pesticides significantly more dangerous than natural ones

13/02/2023
Agroecology Food policy Labelling

EU organic movement warns against greenwashing

BRUSSELS, 13 FEBRUARY 2023 – IFOAM Organics Europe warns against the misuse of claims, labels, or communication initiatives about food…
24/02/2021
Agroecology

Land policy is key to agroecological transition in F2F Strategy and CAP reform

09/12/2019
Agroecology Farm to Fork Food policy

Organic food and farming calls for agroecology to be at the heart of the Farm to Fork Strategy

24/09/2019
Fairness & transparency

Coalition statement on the IMCO vote on UTPs

16/04/2019
Agroecology Climate change

IFOAM EU welcomes the new IDDRI study on agroecology and carbon neutrality by 2050

15/04/2019
Fairness & transparency

Joint press release: Civil society launches a campaign calling on the next Members of the European Parliament to make Europe more sustainable and fair by 2024

10/04/2019
Fairness & transparency

Taxation can be a tool towards true cost accounting according to new study

12/03/2019
Fairness & transparency

Joint press release: An important step closer to a fairer food chain for everyone

22/01/2019
Organic regulations Plant health care

IFOAM EU welcomes the agreement on a new Fertiliser Regulation

27/11/2015
Agroecology Climate change

Earth to Paris: The organic movement calls for an end to high-emitting industrial farming practices

13/10/2015
Organic regulations

Moving in the right direction with Parliament vote on organic, but obstacles still remain

29/09/2015
Agroecology

Feeding the people: global agri-food system needs fundamental change

16/06/2015
Organic regulations

Agri council on organic: reasonable compromise took up many sector demands

11/06/2015
Organic regulations

EU policies should support organic production and consumption

Riga, 11 June 2015 – At this politically important moment for the organic regulation reform – between an informal AGRIFISH…
10/06/2015
Organic regulations

Latest Council compromise: Risk of less harmonised rules for organic in EU

02/06/2015
Organic regulations

IFOAM EU at informal Council: We need an organic growth agenda for Europe

26/05/2015
Organic regulations

EU Parliament draft report on organic regulation, going in the right direction

11/05/2015
Organic regulations

Organic regulation proposal: No agreement without the organic sector

05/05/2015
Organic regulations

Ministers display a diversity of opinions on organic

13/03/2015
Organic regulations

Don't rush regulation

 
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