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- Agroforestry: woody vegetation
- Animal husbandry
- Benchmarking farm performance
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- Diseases and pests in viticulture
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- Forest biomass
- Forest practices & climate change
- Genetic resources
- Grazing for Carbon
- High Nature Value
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- Livestock emissions
- Mixed farming systems
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- Organic farming
- Permanent grassland
- Precision farming
- Protein crops
- Short food supply chains
- Soil organic matter
- Soil-borne diseases
- Water & agriculture
Focus Groups
New call for EIP-AGRI Focus Group experts now open!
The topics to be covered by three new Focus Groups are:
- Moving from source to sink in arable farming
- Circular Horticulture
- Enhancing production and use of renewable energy on the farm
If you have practical experience on any of these topics and would like to share this with 19 other experts to identify promising and inspiring ideas for innovation, you can apply by 6 September 2017 23:59 hrs CET (Brussels time).
Joining an EIP-AGRI Focus Group allows you to share your knowledge and to learn from peers. It may also help broaden your professional European network, and form the start of a new cooperation.
You can read more about how Focus Groups work and their expected results in the EIP-AGRI Focus Group charter and the Focus Group brochure.
EIP-AGRI Focus Groups are temporary groups of selected experts focusing on a specific subject, sharing knowledge and experience.
Each group explores practical innovative solutions to problems or opportunities in the field, and draws on experience derived from related useful projects. Each EIP-AGRI Focus Group meets twice and produces a recommendations and outcomes report.
The EIP-AGRI Focus Groups also discuss and document research results, best practices and identify the implications for further research activities that will help to solve practical problems in the sector. These may be related to production, processing, consumption, transport or other issues.
In short, the objectives of an EIP-AGRI Focus Group are:
- Taking stock of the state of the art of practice in the field of the EIP-AGRI Focus Group activity, listing problems and opportunities;
- Taking stock of the state of the art of research in this field, summarising possible solutions to the problems listed;
- Identifying needs from practice and possible directions for further research;
- Highlighting priorities for innovative actions by suggesting potential practical Operational Groups or other project formats to test solutions and opportunities, including ways to disseminate the practical knowledge gathered.
Do you have an idea for an EIP-AGRI Focus Group? Is the topic focused and the question well defined? Then why not suggest a new EIP-AGRI Focus Group topic.
