Current Projects:

Projects
management:

NEFG-led projects

NUE-Crops

Improving nutrient use efficiency in major European food, feed and biofuel crops to reduct negative environmental impacts of crop production - EU-FP7 222-645 (2009 - 2014). [Learn more...]

Low Input Breeds

The LowInputBreeds project is hoping to identify and in some cases create robust breeds and cross bred animals able to remain healthy with low intensity inputs. [Learn more...]

N-TOOLBOX

N-TOOLBOXis a new European Union FP7 project that addresses the challenges of implementing the Nitrates Directive throughout Europe at the farm level. The project aims to develop a "Toolbox of cost-effective strategies for on-farm reductions in N losses to water." [Learn more...]

Quality Low Input Food

The Integrated Project QualityLowInputFood aims to improve quality, ensure safety and reduce cost along the organic and "low input" food supply chains through research, dissemination and training activities. [Learn more...]

Better Organic Bread

Better Organic Bread (BOB) is a LINK project with 16 partners, led by Campden and Chorleywood Food Research Association, funded by Defra from October 2005 to June 2010. Field trials managed by Nafferton Ecological Farming Group, Newcastle University, are integrated with milling and baking evaluations to identify optimal manufacturing conditions for UK produced organic bread. [Learn more...]

Blight-MOP

The Blight-MOP project was launched in March 2001 to develop a comprehensive approach for the management of late blight in organic potato production across Europe. [Learn more...]

MADOC

The main aim of the MADOC is to collect and analyse data from published composition comparisons of organic and conventional foods using state-of-the-art meta-analysis approaches. [Learn more...]

Other research projects that NEFG is involved in

TILMAN-ORG

The overall goals of the project Reduced tillage and green manures for sustainable organic cropping systems - TILMAN-ORG are to design improved organic cropping systems with: enhanced productivity and nutrient use efficiency, more efficient weed management and increased biodiversity, but lower carbon footprints. The project is funded in the framework of CORE Organic II. [Learn more...]