Past flagship projects
TRUE-COST ACCOUNTING OF CONSEQUENCES OF TOTAL CONVERSION TO ORGANIC FARMING
Avalon conducted a landmark study on the economic, environmental, and health consequences of large-scale conversion to organic farming in the three Provinces of the Northern Netherlands: Friesland, Groningen, and Drenthe. This comprehensive agronomic, economic, and environmental assessment used true cost accounting and is the first study of its kind in the Netherlands.
ORGANIC FARMING IN THE WESTERN BALKANS
A six-year (2000-2005) programme to introduce organic farming and strengthen the organic movement in the Western Balkans: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Serbia.
SETTING UP ORGANIC AGRICULTURE DEMONSTRATION, RESEARCH, AND EDUCATION CENTRES
At its commencement in 1995, this was the biggest (1.3 million EUR) and the most complex EU project on organic farming ever awarded. It was a multi-year capacity-building, demonstration, and research programme to reduce agriculture-induced nutrient load in the Danube River Basin. Avalon lobbied for this project, facilitated the formation of the implementing consortium and provided a deputy project manager and various technical expertise.
THIRTEEN AGRI-ENVIRONMENT PROJECTS
Avalon pioneered and paved the way for agri-environment programmes in the New EU Member States and countries aspiring to EU membership. Avalon’s thirteen agri-environment projects, implemented from 1999 to 2016 in eleven New EU Member States and three candidate countries, were their first contact with agri-environment programmes. In an evaluation letter, the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture, Nature Management & Food Quality qualified Avalon’s agri-environment projects as GROUNDBREAKING.
