Improving understanding of the contribution of the organic farming sector to sustainability

¿De qué trata esta convocatoria?

The topic funds one coordination action that improves data collection on the sustainability of EU organic farming and reduces reporting burden on farmers and operators.

¿Qué financia esta convocatoria?

Scope

The topic funds one coordination and support action that improves data collection in the EU organic sector, both to understand its economic, environmental and social contribution and to reduce the reporting burden on farmers and other operators. Crop and livestock production are both in scope, and all EU Member States should be covered.

Activities

Proposals should address all of the following:

• Map existing tools, platforms, methods and actors for collecting organic production data at EU, national and local level, with analysis of cost-effectiveness, best practices and potential to reduce administrative burden.
• Facilitate exchange of experience across the EU and identify solutions that can be transferred between countries and regions.
• Assess whether data collected by organic certification bodies can also be used to measure sustainability, including interoperability standards.
• Develop recommendations, including on governance, for using current data collection tools.
• Train organic farmers and other operators to collect data for reporting, and run networking activities.

Cooperation

Proposals should build on existing tools such as the Farm Sustainability Data Network and include a dedicated task to collaborate with related EU projects, including the Agroecology partnership and the Agriculture of Data partnership.

Expected outcomes

Better data on the impacts of the organic sector, stronger data capacities in organic supply chains and more cooperation between public and private data providers.

¿Cuándo termina el plazo?

23 de septiembre de 2027 (321 días)

23 September 2027 (single-stage call).