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ÖAIP/EISA Farmers Exchange

Austria, Rust (Vienna Vicinity)
21-23 September 2009

Policy Meets Practice
European Commission representatives join annual EISA Farmers Exchange on Integrated Farming

  • Event programme click here
  • Participants list with contact details click here
  • To learn more about "Plant and animal production in Austria" and to receive information on the farms visited, click here
  • For detailed information on some work issues of the Test & Research Station of the Vienna University of Agriculture and of the Government of Lower Austria click here
  • Photo Gallery click here
  • Press release, click here




Press Release, Presentations & Photo Gallery

EPP-ED Hearing

Food Safety and Security

Wednesday 10 December 2008

The Press Release

The Presentations
Achievements of Integrated Farming
Integrated Farming (IF): Ensures Food Safety...

The Photo-Gallery




EISA View and Recommendation

Framework Directive on Sustainable Use of Pesticides
(Klass Report)

Upcoming Vote in the EP Environment and Health Committee on 5th November

With a view to the upcoming vote in the EP Environment and Health Committee on the amendments to the Sustainable Use of Pesticides Framework Directive, EISA would like to express their sincere concerns with regard to the risk this poses to the further sustainable development in agriculture. ...more


Envisaged Directive 2008/Ö/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a framework for Community action to achieve a sustainable use of pesticides

upcoming vote in the EP
Expert Point of View on amendment 108

... read more (English / German)




EISA Farmers Exchange 2008

The EISA Farmers Exchange 2008 took place in the area of Hildesheim (close to Hanover), Germany, from 3rd September until 5th September 2008.

To open and print the press release on the panel discussion on 4th September, please click here.

The discussion in
German


To open and print the press release on the press debate on 5th September, please click here.

The release in
German


To open and print the event report please click here.

The report in other languages:
German
Hungarian
Polish
Czech



Pictures of the Event






Tony Worth newly-elected EISA-chairman

EISA (Bonn): Tony Worth, farmer in the UK, has been elected as the new EISA chairman during the members assembly in December 2007. He has taken over the post from Heinrich Kemper MdL. However, together with two other farmers, Gerard Marmasse from France as vice-chair and Lucien Clesse from Luxembourg as treasurer, Kemper will continue his support for EISA's work as second vice-chairman of the EISA Board. Tony Worth has been working within LEAF, the national member of EISA in the UK, and within EISA itself for years. Following his unanimous election, he pointed out his vision for EISA and the role of Integrated Farming in Europe. "We need to close the gap between the farming community and society, we need to inform media, politicians and the general public about modern sustainable agriculture. The EISA demonstration Farm Network and the EISA Integrated Farming Framework are valuable assets for our communication." During his first year in office, one major event will be the EISA Farmers Exchange in 2008 in the area of Hildesheim, close to Hanover, Germany, in September 2008. For the first time, this annual exchange will be supported by EU-Commission. Details of this event will be posted on the EISA website www.sustainable-agriculture.org in due course. The European Initiative for Sustainable Development in Agriculture e.V. (EISA) is an association of six European organisations. EISA was founded in 2001 by FARRE (Forum de L'Agriculture RaisonnÈe Respectueuse de L'Environnement, France), FILL (Fördergemeinschaft Integrierte Landbewirtschaftung, Luxemburg), FNL (Fördergemeinschaft Nachhaltige Landwirtschaft, Germany), L'Agricoltura che Vogliamo (today: ASNAI, Associazione Nazionale Agricoltura Integrata, Italy), LEAF (Linking Environment and Farming, U.K.) and Odling i Balans (Sweden) to promote Integrated Farm Management on a European level.