The training aim was to inform our members/wider network about the result of landowners & stakeholders surveys), the contract solutions and the testimony from farmers on field of biodiversity and organic production.

The first part of the training has been presented the results of the landowners and stakeholder surveys on the fruit & vegetable sectors.
In addition, the example of contractual solutions has been presented, their function, strengths and potential weaknesses have been discussed. The focus was on results-based payments, collective implementation/cooperation, land lease and supply chain approaches that aim to deliver environmental benefits in order to facilitate their uptake. The aim was to enable participation in voluntary measures that promote the provision of public goods by agriculture and to increase the capacity to design and implement such measures with a focus on participants who do not yet have experience in this topic. Furthermore, the contractual solution in biodiversity and the organic production have been highlighted.

The second prate have been presented two testimony, one in the field of the chestnut orchard biodiversity and the other one organic farm management in the hazelnuts.
1- Prof. Beccaro has presented, the testimony on Chestnut cultivation related to the biodiversity conservation this experience shared with the European chestnut network Eurocastagna. The problem with the chestnut is that the last year in all Europe was the collapse of orchard, the reason of this are climate change, agronomic management. The other problem is the conservation of agro – bio conservation of chestnut orchard intraspecific and interspecific biodiversity, because the majority of some of plantation are established in flat lands and not in the montunoes areas that are established with the euro- Japanese hydrides not with the traditional.
Consenting the chestnut orchard, the ecosystem services payment is still an open question. The innovation and contracting of the chestnut sector are something missing. Is a missing of the public policies in the chestnut sector. The main problem is the missing of the application of the payment of the ecosystem services, if you have a system that provides a lot of ecosystem services and the cultural heritage, the tradition, the missing of the valorization of this ecosystem services.
2- Sig. Cavalloto di Altalanga Organic farm, has presented the criticalities and the advantages compared to the conventional farm. BIO cultivation has higher production costs, which we would go on to illustrate: defense against grass growth (in bio production cutting grass using a self-propelled lawn mower (used in the U.S. for golf courses). suckering (is an operation that is performed by us completely by hand as there is no tool to remove suckers at the base without damaging the plant).
In the conventional production this problem is resolved: the grass is solved with herbicide, the suckering by spraying the suckers with desiccant. The issues are the higher price, in the hazelnut barely covers the higher costs resulting from the organic technique.
The contribution form the Piemonte region is about €400/ha more than conventional. In addition, has been presented the new project for the Asian that consists of installing panels consisting of a pheromone, a selective attractant for the stink bug, and a plastic material surface sprayed with glue.

The training was designed as an opportunity to exchange ideas and problems in the fruit and vegetable sector and to foster the dissemination of solutions by strengthening collaboration. At the same time, it allows to provide information for our members to facilitate their work, meet the upcoming challenges in agriculture and hear the testimony of farmers