16 February 2015

The European Initiative for Sustainable Development in Agriculture (EISA) was founded with the common aim of developing and promoting Integrated Farming throughout Europe.

EISA members help create a better public understanding of agriculture through a network of demonstration farms and various other communication and demonstration activities. They bring farmers and consumers together to raise awareness of how farmers are working in harmony with nature to produce good, safe food and renewable resources with economic, environmental and social care.

The EISA Annual Report 2014 presents an overview on EISA’s and national EISA members’ activities as well as a brief description of the six associate members. If you are interested in receiving further information or in getting involved …
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Integrated Farming Topic Sheet no 3 / 2015

Biodiversity – an underestimated treasure?
Biodiversity is commonly perceived as diversity of wild plant and animal species. However, in addition to all visible species of wild plants and animals, biodiversity also includes invisible and microscopic life – and thus also soil life – such as bacteria, fungi, algae and nematodes, to mention just a few. Furthermore, biodiversity includes all crops grown and all livestock kept on farms, the multitude of varieties within individual species, all different habitats as well as the multiple ecological services and interdependencies between species and habitats such as pollination for example. Biological diversity is a value as such… Read more