{"id":13862,"date":"2021-05-17T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crowdfarming.com\/sin-categoria\/it-is-high-time-to-talk-about-conversion\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T13:35:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T12:35:37","slug":"it-is-high-time-to-talk-about-conversion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crowdfarming.com\/what-the-field\/society\/it-is-high-time-to-talk-about-conversion\/","title":{"rendered":"It is high time to talk about conversion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What does the organic agricultural landscape of Europe have in common with religion?<br><br>It can only develop by converting people. In our case these people are farmers. Farmers who need to discover faith in a more sustainable agriculture. And a community that supports them.<br><br>25% of the EU\u00b4s farmland is planned to be organically farmed by 2030. Although it might not sound all that much, this goal \u2013 which is part of the EU\u00b4s<a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/food\/farm2fork_en\"> farm to fork strategy<\/a>, an initiative at the heart of the<a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/clima\/policies\/eu-climate-action_en\"> European Green Deal<\/a> to combat climate change &#8211;&nbsp; is actually widely considered unrealistic. <a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php?title=Organic_farming_statistics\">In 2019 just 8.5% of the EU\u00b4s agricultural land was organically cultivated<\/a>, in 2017 it was 7%, showing that the growth rate (around 6% annual increase between 2007 and 2017) is currently not high enough to reach the 25% goal. \u201cHow hard can it be to just stop using pesticides and buy yourself an organic label?\u201d, you might think. \u201cToo hard\u201d or \u201cIt is not that easy\u201d might be the answer you would get from all too many farmers.<br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crowdfarming.com\/what-the-field\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Europa-2030-1-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1798\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>First of all, let\u00b4s do away with a common myth: a producer cannot just \u201cbuy\u201d the right to use the EU\u00b4s organic logo. To be eligible to use<a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/info\/food-farming-fisheries\/farming\/organic-farming\/organic-logo_en\"> this logo<\/a>,&nbsp; the farmer must start a certification process in which the farm and its products are assessed and tested after having undergone a long and difficult transitional period. It takes three years on average (at least two and in certain cases as long as four years) until the conversion process is complete and the farmers can put that green sticker on their products. The length of this process is mainly due to the residues of agrochemicals that remain in the soil long after the farmer stops using them, effectively \u201cinfecting\u201d their crops, but also because organic farming is very labour-intensive and complex work. Ever-evolving techniques to combat plagues and boost production in natural ways must be researched and learned, and as we all know, theoretical knowledge does not automatically mean successful application, especially when our unpredictable mother nature is involved.<br><br>The farmers must therefore invest a lot of time, effort, and of course their hard-earned money to achieve a successful harvest without the help of pesticides, herbicides and other products from agrochemical companies. Organic farming requires many hands on deck (or rather, in the field), so one might argue that there is therefore a case to be made in favour of organic agriculture in terms of employment potential. (As you can see, this is an ample subject, and we are happy to dive into the nitty-gritty in future communications if you want to learn more). Even if everything goes well, the farmer will still be left with significantly less yield than conventional production would provide.<br><br>Unfortunately, there is another major problem that producers transitioning to ecological agriculture face: there is next to no market for their products. Too expensive to compete in the conventional market and still lacking the certification for the organic market, conversion products are excluded from traditional sales channels. At a time when the farmers most need funds to finance their conversion efforts and make their transition successful. For this reason we have decided to not turn our backs on producers that are going through this tough process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crowdfarming.com\/what-the-field\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Reco-character-2-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1799\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br><em>\u201cHow sure can I be that the price will reflect the efforts if I start the organic certification process? How can I finance the conversion period if I must still sell my products at a conventional price?\u201d- <\/em>These are questions we receive from many farmers when we recommend them to get their farms certified organic. At first, we didn\u2019t have an answer. It was clearly a problem we needed to solve in order to convince farmers to start their journey to organic. This was the seed that <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crowdfarming.com\/en\/farmers-market\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Eco Conversion Project<\/a><\/strong> grew from.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-horizontal is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-499968f5 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-background\" href=\"https:\/\/www.crowdfarming.com\/en\/farmers-market\" style=\"background-color:#5d9e9b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Meet Farmers in conversion<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does the organic agricultural landscape of Europe have in common with religion? It can only develop by converting people. In our case these people are farmers. Farmers who need to discover faith in a more sustainable agriculture. 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