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- 05/23/2024 : Photovoice: Sustainability in images and words from the perspective of farmers in Andalusia and Ecuador
- 05/21/2024 : Advancing organic cacao cultivation in agroforestry: successful training in Bolivia
- 05/21/2024 : European project GrapeBreed4IPM has started
- 11/13/2023 : Positive list of cell fusion-free vegetable varieties updated
- 11/13/2023 : Technical guide on organic bush berry production in Kosovo published
- 08/20/2023 : Risks for residues caused by spray drift in small organic vineyards in Switzerland
- 08/11/2023 : EU project BIOFRUITNET promoting innovation in organic fruit production
- 07/20/2023 : Opportunities for organic farming research in Southeast Asia
- 07/12/2023 : Efficient seed extraction in organic tomato cultivation
- 02/10/2023 : Booklet "Faces of Organic Cotton"
- 12/06/2022 : Positive list of cell fusion-free vegetable varieties updated
- 11/23/2022 : Sheep in orchards: discover two podcasts on the ÉCORCE project
- 11/18/2022 : Portrait series: Faces of Organic Cotton
- 11/01/2022 : Three new organic technical guides for Moldova
- 10/17/2022 : New guide on organic seedling production for medicinal and aromatic plants for Kosovo
- 09/15/2022 : Success in the battle against the cotton seed crisis: first ever release of organic cotton varieties in India
- 08/26/2022 : New platform for the fight against Citrus Greening
- 06/09/2022 : Survey for practitioners on organic vegetable growing
- 02/11/2022 : Video: Indian cotton farmer meets Swiss influencer
- 12/23/2021 : Organic cocoa from agroforestry systems – international exchange in Bolivia
- 12/16/2021 : International FiBL cotton project honoured with research prize
- 12/06/2021 : Positive list of cell fusion-free vegetable varieties updated
- 11/04/2021 : New guide on harvest and post-harvest handling of herbs for Kosovo
- 08/20/2021 : How to increase the sustainability of global supply chains
- 07/01/2021 : Video: Insights into the BRESOV project
- 06/22/2021 : Flowers in the cabbage patch are good for beneficials
- 04/13/2021 : What remedies for leaf blotch?
- 04/07/2021 : Oranges in danger
- 03/17/2021 : Workshop on improving the sustainability of intensive organic fruit orchards
- 01/28/2021 : New trainers’ guide "Participatory On-Farm Breeding of Organic Cotton" published
- 10/15/2020 : Meta-analysis on the agronomic, ecological and socio-economic performance of cacao agroforestry and monocultures systems published
- 10/14/2020 : Is organic chocolate more sustainable? Recent publication addresses the role of transportation in chocolates carbon footprint
- 08/25/2020 : Survey: Improving crop protection in organic fruit production – extended deadline
- 08/13/2020 : Online event "How organic breeding adds value to the food chain"
- 05/25/2020 : Website of the Biofruitnet project now online
- 04/28/2020 : Organic Farm Knowledge - A unique resource with tools for farmers across Europe
- 01/09/2020 : Launch of new project BIOFRUITNET
- 12/10/2019 : Organic orange producers defend against the yellow dragon
- 09/26/2018 : Highlight for organic and fairtrade cotton in West Africa
- 09/04/2018 : Perennial flower strips - an effective measure against pests in fruit production
- 06/19/2018 : Optimising vegetable crops for organic farming: Launch of 4-year EU research project BRESOV
- 03/22/2018 : Agroforestry can safeguard the future of chocolate
- 11/08/2017 : FiBL and Indian agricultural university sign MoU to embark on collaborative projects
- 08/28/2017 : Cotton is back in Haiti: New hope for farmers
- 05/17/2017 : FiBL and Korean partners: Organic strategies for fruit orchards
- 02/23/2017 : Cacao agroforestry systems increase farmers’ income
- 07/11/2016 : FiBL scientists report the major bottlenecks of organic cotton production in India
- 03/23/2016 : CGIAR features FiBL cotton research in state of the art publication on innovation platforms
- 06/12/2015 : Launch of a new project to combat an important cocoa disease in West Africa
- 03/26/2015 : Syprobio project presented at Expo Milano 2015
- 03/24/2015 : Syprobio project: Tested innovations already being disseminated in West Africa
- 12/05/2013 : Long-term trial in India shows: Organic Cotton is competitive with GM crops
- 08/20/2012 : Apple thinning with potassium bicarbonate
- 07/06/2011 : GM cotton seeds a threat to Indian farmers
- 07/04/2011 : New consultancy mandate on organic apple and black currant production in Ukraine
- 06/07/2010 : FiBL-supported Citricos Ex wins Prestigious Mexican National Export Award for organic citrus exports to Switzerland
- 05/13/2009 : World Congress on Organic Cotton – From Fashion to Sustainability
- 02/02/2006 : New extension tools for organic cotton production
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Status	FiBL	Title	Start	End
ongoing	CH	Season extension for Swiss organic table strawberries	01.01.2024	31.12.2024
ongoing	CH	Biomostobst	01.01.2024	31.12.2027
ongoing	CH	Cost-Benefit Analysis of Organic Fruit Production	01.01.2024	31.12.2027
ongoing	AT	Pilot project Bionet special crops	01.01.2024	31.03.2025
ongoing	FR	Fruit production in agroforestry and development of water savings: multistate and syntropic mediterranean orchards (PARDESSYM)	01.01.2024	31.12.2027
ongoing	CH	Organic stone fruit	01.01.2024	31.12.2027
ongoing	CH	Qualitative and quantitative promotion of Swiss organic pear cultivation	01.01.2024	31.12.2027
ongoing	FR	Fruit tree phytoplasmas: detection, epidemiology and control (PHYDEMO)	01.10.2023	30.03.2027
ongoing	CH	Development of Organic Stone Fruit Production Technology	26.04.2023	31.12.2025
ongoing	CH	BioDiVerger: 10 years +	01.04.2023	31.03.2026
ongoing	CH	Pre-harvest and post-harvest innovations to reduce pome fruit storage losses (INNO-STOCK)	01.04.2023	31.03.2027
ongoing	CH	Regional optimisation concepts for a demand-oriented water supply in fruit production in the region of Lake Constance	01.04.2023	31.03.2026
ongoing	CH	Flower reservoirs in stone fruit orchards: promoting functional biodiversity with a low input strategy	01.03.2023	28.02.2026
ongoing	CH	Poma nova: monitoring an organic varietal orchard in the canton of Vaud	01.01.2023	31.12.2026
ongoing	CH	Optimizing soil cover for fruit crops (OptiC fruits)	01.01.2023	31.12.2025
completed	CH	Analysis of organic pear production in Switzerland for the preparation of a pear project	01.01.2023	31.12.2023
ongoing	CH	Biodiversity boost through regenerative organic agroforestry in Central Ghana	20.11.2022	30.11.2024
ongoing	CH	Swiss production of organic raspberries for processing	01.11.2022	31.12.2025
completed	FR	Agroecological leverages for low-input fruit tree nurseries (Pépinière bas intrant – Veauvy)	01.10.2022	01.10.2024
ongoing	CH	Innovative Organic fruit Breeding and uses (InnOBreed)	01.07.2022	30.06.2026
completed	CH	SIRED Kosovo	01.02.2022	15.12.2022
ongoing	CH	Farmtrail (Landwirtschaftsweg und Klimapfad Lindau)	01.01.2022
completed	FR	Towards agroforestry in fruit growing: multi-layer & syntropic systems for climate change resilience and water protection	01.01.2022	31.12.2022
ongoing	CH	Establishment of a modern apricot production in the German-speaking part of Switzerland	01.01.2022	31.12.2024
ongoing	AT CH	MIcro- and NAno-Plastics in AGRIcultural Soils: sources, environmental fate and impacts on ecosystem services and overall sustainability (MINAGRIS)	01.09.2021	31.08.2026
completed	CH	Organic dried prunes	01.09.2021	31.12.2023
completed	CH	Organic hazelnuts	01.01.2021	31.12.2023
completed	FR	Studies about the association of sheep breeding and fruit tree production (ECORCE)	01.01.2021	31.12.2023
ongoing	CH	Alternative Bewirtschaftungsmethoden in Obstanlagen zur Reduktion von synthetischen Pflanzenschutzmittel mit Risikopotential. (ArboPhytoRed)	01.01.2021	31.12.2026
completed	CH	Vermittlung, Umsetzung und Wissensaustausch im biologischen Aprikosenanbau (Vulg-ABBIO)	01.01.2021	31.12.2023
completed	CH	Organic action plan for the Canton of Valais (Plan d'action Bio pour VS)	01.01.2021	31.12.2023
completed	CH	Biodiversity Standard for european fruit & vegetable production (Biodiversity Add-on)	16.11.2020	31.12.2022
completed	CH	Resilient varieties for sustainable fruit growing in Switzerland (RESO)	01.09.2020	30.08.2024
ongoing	CH	Sustainable Plant Protection Transition: A Global Approach (SPRINT)	01.09.2020	31.12.2025
completed	AT	Suitability analysis of mobile keeping of organic laying hens in organic apple orchards	01.04.2020	31.12.2021
completed	CH	Verbesserung der Nachhaltigkeit im konventionellen Kernobst (Nachhaltigkeit Kernobst Migros)	01.02.2020	31.12.2021
completed	CH	Fact finding for the establishment of a direct value chain for Bio Suisse certified green pistachio kernels from Turkey	01.02.2020	30.04.2020
completed	CH	PGREL project "Use of gene resources in apples for organic farming II" (PGREL-Nutzungsprojekt)	01.01.2020	31.12.2023
completed	CH	Boosting Innovation in Organic FRUIT production through strong knowledge NETworks (BIOFRUITNET)	01.11.2019	30.04.2023
completed	CH	Innovationen in der Sortenprüfung in Europa zur Förderung der Einführung neuer Sorten, die besser an verschiedene biotische und abiotische Stressbedingungen und an nachhaltigere Anbaumethoden angepasst sind (INVITE)	01.07.2019	30.06.2024
completed	CH	Going Bananas: Restoring Livelihoods of Conflict Affected Farmers in Cotabato (Going Bananas)	01.07.2019	31.12.2020
completed	CH	Validierung und Weiterentwicklung eines Eiablage Prognosesystems für die Kirschessigfliege in der Nordwestschweiz (SIMKEF-CH)	01.05.2019	01.05.2021
completed	CH	Neue Wege im Pflanzenschutz im Bio-Obstbau: Entwicklung und Evaluation von IT-gestützten Pflanzenschutzverfahren im FiBL-Freiluft-Labor	01.01.2019	31.12.2021
completed	CH	Organic berries: Interest group in Vaud	01.01.2019	31.12.2022
completed	CH	Innovative flower strips for sustainable orchard production	01.01.2019	31.12.2022
ongoing	CH	New ways in plant protection in organic fruit growing: Development and evaluation of IT-supported plant protection methods and a new training system	01.01.2019	31.12.2026
ongoing	CH	Mit neuen Strategien gegen neue Schädlinge: Wanzenbekämpfung im biologischen Landbau (Wanzenregulierung)	01.01.2019	31.12.2024
completed	CH	DOMINO -Dynamic sod mulching and use of recycled amendments to increase biodiversity, resilience and sustainability of intensive organic apple orchards and vineyards (DOMINO)	01.04.2018	02.08.2021
completed	CH	Nachhaltigkeitsbewertung von Avocado Zulieferbetrieben zur Hotspot- und Risikoanalyse für die REWE Group	01.01.2018	31.12.2018
completed	CH	Förderung des Angebotes von qualitativ guten und kostengünstigen Schweizer Knospe Beerenjungpflanzen	01.01.2018	31.12.2019
completed	CH	Low-input orchard (BioDiVerger)	01.01.2018	31.12.2022
completed	AT CH	SMART-Bewertung von Apfelproduzenten des Südtiroler Apfelkonsortiums	01.07.2017	31.12.2018
completed	CH DE	LIVESEED - Improve performance of organic agriculture by boosting organic seed and plant breeding efforts across Europe (LIVESEED)	01.06.2017	30.09.2021
completed	CH	Development of Integrated Management for Organic Fruit Production	01.04.2017	31.12.2019
completed	CH	Nachhaltigkeit in der Schweizer Kernobstproduktion – Tobi Seeobst AG	01.01.2017	31.12.2018
completed	AT CH	Nachhaltigkeitsbewertung von Bio-Südtirol Apfel Produzenten zur Hotspot-Analyse und als Grundlage für eine Optimierungs-Strategie	01.01.2017	31.12.2018
completed	CH	Development of a yield-safe production of organic apricots in Switzerland	01.09.2016	31.08.2020
completed	CH	KTI development and testing of suitable substrates for small fruit production	01.01.2016	31.12.2018
completed	CH	PGREL project "Use of gene resources in apples for organic farming" (Nutzung von Apfel-Genressourcen für den Bio-Anbau)	01.01.2016	29.02.2020
completed	CH	Sustainable plant protection against invasive pests in pomiculture and viticulture (InvaProtect)	01.01.2016	31.12.2018
completed	CH	Development of direct and indirect measures against Marssonina coronaria on the basis of infection biology of the pathogen under European conditions	01.01.2016	31.12.2019
completed	CH	Enhancment of the organic small fruit production	01.01.2015	31.12.2018
completed	CH	Innovative design and management to boost functional biodiversityof organic orchards (ECOORCHARD)	01.01.2015	31.12.2017
completed	CH	Testing of sweet and sour cherry and plum cultivars for organic growing	01.01.2015	31.12.2018
ongoing	CH	Delightful organic apple	01.01.2015	31.12.2025
ongoing	CH	Organic plum variety testing with and without weather protection and side netting	01.01.2015
completed	CH	Promotion of production and sales for organic standard tree cultivation	01.01.2015	31.12.2018
completed	CH DE	Support for organic plant breeding research (Support Pflanzenzüchtung)	01.10.2014	30.09.2019
completed	CH	Merkblatt Steinobst	01.01.2011	31.12.2011
completed	CH	Prüfung feuerbrandtoleranter Sorten und Unterlagen	01.01.2009	31.12.2011
completed	CH	Optimierung von biologischen Anbausystemen (Schwerpunkt Birnenanbau)	01.01.2009	31.12.2011
ongoing	CH	Schorfprognose (RIMpro)	01.01.2008
ongoing	CH	Research and Development on herbs and elderberry growing for Ricola AG	01.01.2008
completed	CH	Increasing Fruit consumption through a trans disciplinary approach leading to High quality produce from environmentally safe, sustainable methods (ISAFRUIT)	01.01.2006	30.09.2010
completed	CH	Biocontrol of the cherry fruit fly with entomopathogenic nematodes	01.05.2005	31.03.2008
completed	CH	Potential and Limits of Pesticide Free Apple Growing by a Self-Regulating Orchard Set-Up (SFS)	01.01.2005	31.12.2016
completed	CH	Aufbau einer schweizer Bio-Tafeltrauben Produktion	01.01.2004	31.12.2007
completed	CH	Replacement of Copper Fungicides in Organic Production of Grapevine and Apple in Europe (REPCO)	01.11.2003	31.10.2007
ongoing	CH	PSR old apple varieties	01.01.2003
completed	CH	Kaolinbehandlungen gegen Obstschädlinge	01.01.2003	31.12.2006
completed	CH	Quality compost: a durable solution for two different problems	01.01.2003	31.12.2005
completed	CH	Regulierung der Kirschfruchtfliege	01.01.2002	31.12.2014
ongoing	CH AT	Coop – Import of organic fruits and vegetables	01.01.2002
ongoing	CH	Schädlingsregulierung Obstbau	01.01.2002
completed	CH	Kontrolle der Gloeosporium-Fäule bei der Lagerung von Äpfeln aus biologischem Anbau	01.01.2001	31.12.2007
completed	CH	Sortenteam zur Markt- Einführung bio-tauglicher Apfelsorten	30.11.1999	30.11.1999
completed	CH	Soil management in Orchards	01.01.1999	31.12.2008
completed	CH	Angebotssteigerung von ökologisch erzeugtem Obst und Gemüse aus dem Oberrheingebiet (Itada)	01.01.1999	31.12.2001
completed	CH	Testing of new rootstocks for organic apple growing	01.01.1999	31.12.2015
completed	CH	Release of reared ladybirds (Adalia bipunctata) to control the rosy apple aphid (Dysaphis plantaginea)	01.01.1998	31.12.2004
completed	CH	Steigerung der Ertragssicherheit im biologischen Steinobstbau	01.01.1998	31.12.2008
ongoing	CH	Crop load regulation (thinning) in organic apple growing	01.01.1998
ongoing	CH	Testing of pit fruit cultivars for organic growing	01.10.1994
ongoing	CH	Gemüse-, Beeren- und Kernobstsortenlisten (jährliche Aktualisierung der empfohlenen Sorten, in Zusammenarbeit mit Produzenten und Handel)

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