Organic Centre Wales
Organic Centre Wales was established in 2000 with funding from the Welsh Government to act as the focal point for information on organic food and farming in Wales. Initially a collaboration…
Consultancy and advisory services for organic farming
ORC’s Organic Advisory Service was the first established organic consultancy provider in the UK, but in recent years several other providers of organic advice and consultancy services have developed. From…
Resource use and sustainabilty
The increased level of concern in the public domain about energy use and climate change has resulted in the emergence of interest in the potential for farms to both provide…
Plant breeding for crop resilience
Plant breeding is important to ensure that crops are well adapted to the environment in which they are grown and capable of resisting harmful pests and diseases, particularly if the…
Livestock systems
Keeping livestock is an integral part of many organic farming systems. Ruminant livestock (in the UK mainly cattle and sheep) can utilise grass and roughage as a feed resource so…
Food Quality and Health
One of the highest goals and claims of organic agriculture is to produces healthy and high quality food that differentiates itself through higher nutritional qualities, such as vitamins and minerals…
ORC’s Farmers’ Organic Research Club (FORC)
The Farmers’ Organic Research Club (FORC) provides producers and others with the opportunity to undertake their own farm trials, collaborate with fellow farmers and growers and to engage directly in…
Environment, sustainability and health
Food and agriculture have major impacts on the environment and health, both as a result of the production methods employed and the quality of the food produced. Research has shown…
Biodiversity and agro-ecology
Biodiversity and ecosystem health is integral to the organic approach; IFOAM’s Principle of Ecology states that “Organic Agriculture should be based on living ecological systems and cycles, work with them,…
Agroforestry
Agroforestry is a concept of integrated land use that combines elements of agriculture and forestry in a sustainable production system. There are both ecological and economic interactions between the trees…
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