9th EUROPEAN SUMMER ACADEMY ON ORGANIC FARMING

EN: Press Release Bioacademy 2009 DE: Pressemitteilung Bioakademie 2009

This year’s Bioacademy held on 24th – 26th June 2009, at the end of the Czech Presidency of the EU, reacted, in its focus, to the economic crisis and environmental change currently taking place.

Bioacademy is one of the most important conferences on organic farming (OF) in the region of Central and Eastern Europe. As usual, held in the premises of the Horticultural Faculty of the Mendel University of Agriculture and Forestry, in the South-Moravian town of Lednice. Not only is Bioacademy an opportunity to gain and exchange specialist information, it is also a platform for an annual meeting of about 200 people from more than 20 countries, including farmers, researchers, NGO workers and people from state administration within branches close to organic farming. A very important aspect is the patronage of Ministries of Agriculture and the Environment of several countries, also IFOAM EU GROUP and FiBL and the presence of their representatives.

Organizers: Association of Czech Organic Farmers