Project for a European technological platform on organic agriculture: Vision for an Organic Food and Farming Research Agenda to 2025

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Facing global problems like food security, the unsustainable use of natural resources, the degradation of soils and biodiversity as well as climate change, international experts demand a strategy change in agriculture and in agricultural research. Such a change encompasses not only re-establishing principles like closing cycles in agro-ecosystems, making best use of regulating and supporting ecosystems services but also making use of indigenous or tacit knowledge of farmer communities in addition to technological progress. The reports of the “Millennium Ecosystem Assessment” and of the IAASTD highlighted the need for this change in 2005 and 2008. Influenced by these recommendations, the potential of organic food and farming systems have to be assessed for the future of agriculture. Consequently, it is important to debate the future development of organic food and farming systems. Does organic agriculture stick to a niche strategy of producing high quality food for an elite of consumers

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