APPEAR in practice_9: Organic agriculture in action

As a well-known knowledge driven farming method, organic agriculture strives towards sustainability through improved soil fertility and biological diversity while prohibiting synthetic pesticides and fertilizers, antibiotics, and genetically modified organisms. Steadily increasing in popularity, organic agriculture continues its global boom today. This means each year there are more organic farmers, rising numbers of organically managed land, growing organic markets, and further political recognition. This boom in organic farming demands skilled human resources at all institutional and organisational levels. The Division of Organic Farming/Working group Transdisciplinary Systems Research at BOKU, Vienna has the privilege to work on two APPEAR projects with partners in Armenia (Armenian National Agrarian University) and Uganda (Mountains of the Moon University). In order to contribute to these demands, these projects focus on the facilitation of sustainable agriculture education, training, curricula and demonstration and research farm development in a transdisciplinary way.

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