WP1
deals with the project management and communication with stakeholders and
involves the coordination of project plans, reporting and cooperation between
the different tasks and participants.
The
WP1 tries to ensure an effective dissemination through national and international
journals, presentation at conference and regular maintenance of the website
involving general information on the project and results.
The
consortium brings together partners within Europe,
with complementary, internationally respected expertise. It will provide new
knowledge on the wheat-flour chain through (1) the use of long-term experiments
on soil tillage and N management, (2) the assessment of innovative crop
management and/or milling processes and (3) the combination of agronomical and
technological methods. The use of the ongoing long-term experiments provides a
considerable added value since long-term effects of management on soil
fertility are essential for estimating effects on crop yield and quality of
organically grown bread wheat. These long-term experiments are rare and very
costly to run, and this transnational use of some of the most interesting
long-term experiments in organic farming therefore provides a unique
opportunity for clarifying some of the critical crop management effects on
quality of bread wheat in organic farming. This multidisciplinary consortium
will facilitate the dissemination of the findings and technical advances on
both agronomical and technological methods to improve organic wheat and flour
quality and safety across Europe.
The research results will benefit the competitiveness of European organic
agriculture and related food industries.
Project co-ordinator:
Professor Christophe David ISARA Lyon Department of Agrosystems, Environment and Production Agroecology and Organic Farming Unit 23 Jean Baldassini 69364 Lyon, France
