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Third Solid newsletter, April 2013

SOLID News, April 2013
Content:

Biodiversity – how can we include it in environmental life cycle assessments of products? (WP4)

Which kind of innovation do the supply chain members want ? (WP5)
Presentation of small and medium enterprises in SOLID:
Juvan Luomi – a pioneering organic dairy in Finland Institute of Organic Training and Advice – Challenges and innovation in dairy farming
Brief News & Events

3rd Solid Project Meeting, 9-11 May 2013, Thessaloniki

The next SOLID Project Meeting will take place in Greece on the 9^th to the 11^th of May 2013.
Preliminary program for 3rd SOLID project meeting 9-11 May, Greece

SOLID News No. 2, December 2012

The second issue of the SOLID Newsletter is now available:

Content

Activities & Preliminary results:

Environmental performance of low input and organic dairy systems

Defining low input dairy farming in Europe

Modelling European Agriculture with Climate Change for Food Security

Brief News & Events

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Organic farming systems as a driver for change

Since 1980’s, NJF member from Nordic and Baltic countries have been engaged in research, development and extension work in organic farming and food systems. Several NJF seminars have been arranged to highlight organic food and agriculture, bringing together experts from different branches of sience, from ecology to economics.

The seminar in Denmark 2013 is part if this chain of seminars, which started in Alnarp, Sweden 2005 and was followed by Tartu, Estonia in 2009. This seminar is organized in collaboration with ICROFS – International Centre for Research in Organic Food Systems and EPOK – Centre for Organic Food and Farming at Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.