| 10.02.2010: Energy from Agriculture
There are two reasons to use agricultural products for transformation into energy-concepts:
- There is a decrease of worldwide oil resources – therefore there is a need to substitute oil by other inputs
- in some regions farmers don’t earn enough margin in their traditional food-markets – therefore they have to look for alternative sectors
The restriction set as an administrative frame is “sustainability”. Farmers producing/selling agricultural products for energy-transformation have to prove by tracking/tracing systems that they have a sustainable production for this energy-sector.
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| 18.01.2010: ORCA- Research Net
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
will support a research network „Organic Research Centres Alliance“ (ORCA). ( More )
The vision is to:
- create centres of excellence in organic and biodynamic agriculture by networking and strengthening existing human and institutional resources
- maintain an electronic platform where all knowledge on organic and biodynamic agriculture can be accessed ;
- establish attractive research farms for demonstration and training;
- conduct in-farm research with farmers and involve practitioners in the whole innovation process;
- train and mentor young scientists through fellowship programmes;
- publish peer-reviewed organic research papers;
- compete for external funding for joint research programmes, while also reallocating and pooling existing resources to improve efficiency
The Codex Alimentarius Commission defines organic agriculture as a holistic production management system that promotes and enhances agro-ecosystem health, including biodiversity, biological cycles and soil biological activity. These goals are accomplished by using, where possible, agronomic, biological and mechanical methods, as apposed to using synthetic materials, to fulfil any specific function within the system.
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| 20.12.2009: Green Week Scientific Conference
Since 2007 each year MACE (Modern Agriculture in Central and East Europe) is organizing a conference at the
Green Week
in Berlin. MACE is an EU-project promoted by the Marie-Curie-program. Project partners are:
- Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Central and Eastern Europe Halle (Germany)
- Research Institute of Agricultural Economics Prague (Czech Republic)
- Warsaw University (Poland)
- Corvinus University Budapest (Hungary)
- Slovak University of Agriculture Nitra (Slovakia)
- Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus (Germany)
- Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Engineering Potsdam-Bornim (Germany)
- Institute of Agricultural Economics Bucharest (Romania)
- Institute of Agricultural Economics Sofia (Bulgaria)
- Russian State Agrarian University – Timiryazev Academy (Russia).
The 2010 Conference has the title “Challenges of Education and Innovation” (more)
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| 20.11.2009: Consumer Dialogue by Oetker
Oetker/Germany has more than 100 years tradition as a branded goods company for FMCG. Furtheron that company has long-standing experience with consumers inviting them to their “test-kitchen”. As an additional tool Oetker now initiated the electronic exchange via
Web-Site with consumers about all topics of the Food Chain. About one hundred Oetker-employees work in the marketing-department for customer-loyalty
At its tri-annual Bielefelder-Treff for journalists at its headquarters Oetker introduced the latest state of the art of cooking by “molecular kitchen”, its own products and marketing initiatives . Among the external experts Prof. Dr. B. Hallier, Managing Director of EHI Retail Institute, introduced his Evolution Tornado of Retail
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| 26.10.2009: Seasonal Promotions
How to increase value for all stakeholders within the total food chain? This is a hot topic for all players with eroding margins/profits. At the ANUGA in Cologne/Germany the Salami-Producers Marten gave two excellent ideas to upgrade its meat-product:
- Salami produced in form of a heart for Valentine’s Day or all loving people
- Salami packed at X-mas in as special box which can also be used later at home as a X-mas display
More at the Web-Site
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