relation: https://orgprints.org/id/eprint/45214/
title: Organic farmers’ reality to manage functional agrobiodiversity in European organic apple orchards.
creator: Fernique, Sarah
creator: Penvern, Servane
creator: Cardona, Aurélie
creator: Ahrenfeldt, Erica
creator: Grébaux, Daphné
creator: Jamar, Laurent
creator: kruzynska, Dorota
creator: Matray, Silvia
creator: Ozoliņa-Pole, Laura
creator: Ralle, Baiba
creator: Sigsgaard, Lene
creator: Steinemann, Beatrice
creator: Wiergiel, W.
creator: Telfser, Josef
creator: Warlop, Francois
creator: Herz, Annette
subject:  Biodiversity and ecosystem services
subject: Fruit and berries
subject:  Environmental aspects
description: According to its principles and standards, organic farming particularly rely on natural processes and functional agro-biodiversity (FAB) to benefit from essential ecosystem  services. However, these processes are mostly complex, hardly visible and site-specific, thereby making it difficult to assess and manage on-farm. A European survey has been carried out among organic farmers and emphasizes the variability among countries with a diversity of techniques targeting different functional groups according to farming contexts and farmers’ expectations. The different criteria used by farmers to evaluate FAB techniques efficiency and implementation potential clearly illustrate the difficulty to assess the agroecosystem as a whole.
date: 2016-02
type: Conference paper, poster, etc. 
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
language: en
identifier: /id/eprint/45214/1/2016_Fernique_268bis269-EcoFruit.pdf
identifier:    Fernique, Sarah; Penvern, Servane; Cardona, Aurélie; Ahrenfeldt, Erica; Grébaux, Daphné; Jamar, Laurent; kruzynska, Dorota; Matray, Silvia; Ozoliņa-Pole, Laura; Ralle, Baiba; Sigsgaard, Lene; Steinemann, Beatrice; Wiergiel, W.; Telfser, Josef; Warlop, Francois and Herz, Annette    (2016) Organic farmers’ reality to manage functional agrobiodiversity in European organic apple orchards.       Paper at:   17th International Conference on Organic Fruit Growing, Ecofruit 2016, 268-269., Weinsberg, 2016.