24 June 2014
Caroline Drummond MBE, Chief Executive of LEAF (Linking Environment And Farming) was among five new Honorary Fellows to be presented by the Society for the Environment (SocEnv), during a reception at the House of Lords held on Monday 23rd June. Caroline received her Fellowship in recognition of the contribution she has made, through her work with LEAF (Linking Environment And Farming), to encourage best practice environmental stewardship amongst farmers and deliver more sustainable food and farming.Read more…
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Eden Foodservice joins LEAF and achieves Food for Life Silver
18 June 2014
Eden Foodservice, which provides catering services for 400 schools in the UK, has joined sustainable food and farming organisation LEAF (Linking Environment And Farming). Sourcing LEAF Marque produce has helped it to become the first catering company to achieve the Silver Food for Life Catering Mark for its 353 primary schools from the Food for Life Partnership. Read more…
FNL Position Paper: World Food Supply and Sustainable Production Increases
FNL Position Paper 2014:
According to estimates of the United Nations, more than nine billion people will live on this planet by 2050. Correspondingly, the social and economic dimensions of this demographic change are immense. Ensuring sufficient food supply for the world population will be the biggest challenge. At the same time, the supply situation is already tight today. The effect is aggravated due to highly volatile food prices which are by trend increasing. In addition, there is the scarcity of agricultural resources, as fertile land and water to be used for global food production both are limited. Estimates indicate that… Read more…
Focus on innovation and biodiversity: Successful EISA Farm Visit 2014
Representatives of EISA members and farmers from Sweden, the United Kingdom, France, Luxembourg and Germany as well as the Dutch Skylark Foundation attended this year’s EISA Farm Visit to Bernburg-Strenzfeld (DLG Field Days) and Quellendorf (APH e.G. Hinsdorf GbR) in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.
Innovative trends in agriculture, in particular with regard to oil & protein crops, plant breeding, crop protection, remote reconnaissance and field robots, as well as measures to conserve and enhance biodiversity, were… Read more…
Looking at Trends in Arable Farming and Conservation of Biodiversity
13 June 2014
DLG-Field Days and BASF biodiversity project on Quellenhof will be highlights of the EISA Farm Visit in Germany 2014
EISA (Brussels): During this year’s EISA Farm Visit, organised by the German EISA member FNL, most of the time will be dedicated to trends in modern arable farming and the conservation of biodiversity. This will include latest developments with regard to oil & protein plants and their uses, challenges and strategies in plant breeding, crop protection and seed coating as well as drones / remote reconnaissance systems and other tools for precision agriculture on the DLG-Field Days in Bernburg-Strenzfeld, Germany. For the EISA group, the focus will be on how Integrated Farming combines…
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FNL involved in ‘Meeting Point Plant Breeding’ at DLG-Field Days
06.06.2014
Campaign „farmer wants a variety“ (Bauer sucht Sorte) at the centre of the presentation
When the DLG-Field Days in Bernburg-Strenzfeld are the centre of attraction for German agriculture from 17 to 19 June 2014, the German EISA member Fördergemeinschaft Nachhaltige Landwirtschaft e.V. (FNL) will contribute to the ‘Meeting Point Plant Breeding’ (stand GJ02) with numerous partners. Dialogue with farmers will be…
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Specialist farming business leads the way in sustainability
Barton Hill Farm, in Bedfordshire, UK has become the latest farming business to be recognised for its commitment to sustainable farming by LEAF (Linking Environment And Farming). The farm produces wheat and oilseed rape for its own artisan oil and flour brand which will both carry the LEAF Marque logo, under the Mrs Middleton’s brand.
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(Photo: Farmer and Co-founder of Mrs Middleton’s, Whizz Middleton,
© www.jarphoto.co.uk)
LEAF organisers declare Open Farm Sunday 2014 the best one yet
Farmers and their helpers were celebrating this weekend as the response to Open Farm Sunday was overwhelmingly positive. National organisers, LEAF (Linking Environment And Farming), have reported that a record number of visitors attended an Open Farm Sunday event on Sunday 8 June. Read more…
(Photo: Annabel Shackleton Open Farm Sunday Manager, LEAF (Linking Environment And Farming); Secretary of State Owen Paterson; Josephine Davies, host farmer Longslow Farm)
European Award for ELO-run LIFE+ 3WATER project!
For the first time ever, the European Commission has handed out awards to nature projects that have achieved outstanding results in certain categories. The LIFE+ 3watEr project, coordinated by the European Landowners’ Organization (ELO) received the first prize in the category of ‘cooperation’. The project aims to strengthen the pond area of Midden-Limburg in Belgium through a combination of economy, ecology, and education. The success of this project is largely due to the good cooperation between private landowners, nature organisations and the administration. According to the Flemish Minister for Environment, Nature and Culture, this is again proof that cooperative efforts can achieve great results for the environment. Read more…
First HERCULES’ EU Level Stakeholder Workshop on Cultural Landscapes
23rd of May, 2014, Brussels
The first HERCULES’ EU Level Stakeholder Workshop took place on 23rd May, entitled ‘European Cultural Landscapes at a Crossroads’. The Workshop, which was organized by the European Landowners’ Organization (ELO), gathered more than 40 representatives from the European Commission, practitioners, NGOs, SMEs and the scientific community to discuss cultural landscapes. Read more …