Boosting Innovation in Organic FRUIT production through strong knowledge NETworks

Focusing on organic pome, stone and citrus fruits, this projects aims to strengthen the competitiveness of European organic fruit production by:

1. Collecting and synthesizing existing practical and scientific knowledge on organic fruit growing to distribute it widely among the EU countries through easy formats like e-learning, podcasts, videos and short articles. 
2. Strengthening the established networks in organic fruit growing and establish links between them to create strong networks of organic fruit producers and stakeholders with a good flow of information.

The project is coordinated by the international farmers association Naturland and carried out in collaboration with 15 partner organisations representing 12 countries in total. They will work together during 3 years to provide information to the farmers in a practical way to tackle the challenges of pests and diseases in fruit crops. FiBL is one of the project partners.

• European Commission

• European Commission, Horizon 2020

• Friedli Michael (Department of Crop Sciences)

• Alföldi Thomas (Department of Extension, Training & Communication)
• Basler Andreas (Department of Extension, Training & Communication)
• Boutry Clémence (Department of Crop Sciences)
• Dietemann Lauren (Department of Extension, Training & Communication)

Task leader and project partner

• cordis.europa.eu: Project on the CORDIS website

• Advisory tools (Department of Extension, Training & Communication, FiBL Switzerland)
• Fruit production (Department of Crop Sciences, FiBL Switzerland)
• Project communication (Department of Extension, Training & Communication, FiBL Switzerland)