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The European Consortium of the Organic-Based Fertilizer Industry (ECOFI) welcomes the Commission’s decision to launch their Strategic Dialogue on the Future of Agriculture as an important step towards a reality where European farmers are empowered to ensure both our food security and sustainability.

On the 12th of December, ECOFI hosted our first E-Coffee with ECOFI, the first in our new webinar series where we invite people to grab a coffee (or tea if you are so inclined) and learn more about the organic-based fertiliser industry and our products! Our first webinar was on the topic of organic-based fertilisers and soil health.

ECOFI held their first fully in-person general assembly since COVID-19 on the 14th of December in Brussels. Here, they elected a new board, and as the consortium looks towards celebrating its 10-year anniversary in 2024 members took stock of ECOFI’s achievements over the past decade and turned to look towards the future and began their planning for 2024 and beyond!

The ECOFI General Assembly brought ECOFI members together, both in-person and online in Brussels, for a hybrid General Assembly on 1 December.

The 1st SOFIE in 2019, brought together, for the first time ever, the European carbon-based fertiliser sector, and attracted over 125 participants, from industry (two thirds of participants), as well as regulators, stakeholders and R&D...

The European Organic-Based Fertiliser Industry is at a turning point in its long history. As the need for home-grown plant nutrition solutions rapidly grows in Europe just weeks before the new EU Fertilising Products Regulation (FPR) provides organic-based...

Oilcakes – the nitrogen-rich pressed plant materials left after oils are extracted – have long been valuable raw materials for producing animal feed and organic fertilisers. However, these oilcakes – a by-product of the food industry but also other sectors such as the production of botanical cosmetics...

Regulation (EU) 2019/1009 (The Fertilising Products Regulation—FPR) foresees the use of animal by-products as components in EU Fertilising Products. However, before that can happen, relevant end points have to be defined under the Animal By-Products regulation [Regulation (EC) No 1069/2009].

To fulfil the objectives of the European Green Deal; agricultural statistics must capture use data on the full range of fertilising products covered by the Fertilising Products Regulation [Regulation (EU) 2019/1009], including plant biostimulants and organic-based fertilisers. European farmers routinely use these products...