The EU-FarmBook platform is ready to store and share your project’s practice-oriented materials

Too much of the knowledge coming from research and innovation projects does not reach the practitioners who could ultimately use and apply it. The EU-FarmBook project and platform aims to help change this by becoming the main knowledge repository and go-to source for practice-oriented information on all topics related to agriculture and forestry. As members of the organic movement, you can help us “make the EU-FarmBook more organic” by submitting your best practice! 

Share your best practices 

On 8 February 2024 the platform was officially launched and is actively seeking contributions from any ongoing or past EU projects that have valuable materials to share, whether at EU, national, or regional level. Watch the video recording of the event. 

If you are involved (or have been previously) in research and innovation projects that have produced materials that could benefit agricultural practitioners, then you can play a vital role! As members of the organic movement, help us (IFOAM Organics Europe) to “make the EU-FarmBook more organic”.  

Why share your best practices? 

Aside from being a noble thing to do, by uploading your project’s key outputs to the EU-FarmBook you will ensure that they are kept findable and securely stored for the long term. The project will end in 2029, but ensuring the financial security of the platform beyond the project lifetime is also a core part of the mission. The EU-FarmBook is more than a data repository, of course, because there will be more and more contributors and users across Europe that will be actively engaging with, learning from, and applying the knowledge and best practices made available on the platform. This is how we transform agriculture and forestry in Europe to achieve a truly sustainable system! 

How can you share your best practices? 

Start on the platform’s Contributors page (this how-to video on the Support page is also handy). There is also a team of EU-FarmBook Ambassadors across the EU to help you: to find the ambassador in your area, check out the Ambassador’s Map. Members of TP Organics and IFOAM Organics Europe can contact Tyler Arbour directly at [email protected]. Finally, there will be a short series of back-to-back training session on 23 May 2024. 

As IFOAM Organics Europe has been a partner from the beginning. As with the previous projects, EU-FarmBook is carried out by a diverse group of partner organisations, including universities and research organizations, farmers’ organisations and cooperatives, national and regional advisory organisations, and others. These partners have been busy engaging members of the EU agriculture and forestry sectors to determine the user needs of the platform, alongside designing and building the database infrastructure required to meet these demands. All these efforts have paid off, and the EU-FarmBook database is finally ready and awaiting your project’s practice-oriented materials to be shared with a wider audience! 

About EU-FarmBook 

The EU-FarmBook project is the third and final project in a series that started in January 2019 with the EURAKNOS project and continued through the pandemic into 2022 with EUREKA. It will run from August 2022 through July 2029.  

Like the previous projects, EU-FarmBook is carried out by a diverse group of 29 partner organisations, including universities and research organizations, farmers’ organisations and cooperatives, national and regional advisory organisations, and others.  

Within EU-FarmBook, IFOAM Organics Europe ensures the information on the platform suits the needs of organic actors. We will also promote the FarmBook platform and link it up to the already existing knowledge platform for the organic sector: Organic Farm Knowledge.  

Additionally, IFOAM Organics Europe will be involved in the creation of Education and Training material, such as practice abstracts and communication materials such as webcasts, farm cafes and knowledge exchange seminars. Ghent University coordinates the EU-FarmBook project.  

Follow the project’s website, LinkedIn and X for developments. 

About Organic Farm Knowledge 

The Organic Farm Knowledge platform has been collecting best-practices, tools, and resources on aspects related to organic farming. They are easily searchable and available in multiple languages at www.organic-farmknowledge.org.  

Subscribe to the newsletter to receive periodic updates via email, and do remember to follow the Organic Farm knowledge platform on Facebook and Twitter for news and events. For more info please contact [email protected]. 

Organic Farm Knowledge was set up by ICROFS (International Centre for Research in Organic Food Systems) in the framework of OK-Net Arable and OK-Net EcoFeed developed it further. Both projects were coordinated by IFOAM Organics Europe and are funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. The third core partner of the Organic Farm Knowledge platform is FiBL (Research Institute of Organic Agriculture).