Our Mission

"Genista Research Foundation aims to promote human activities in the production of food that work with rather than against nature and where one is expected to look at the earth's ecological system in all its function, rather than treating an area as a single product system: the foundation works to cultivate, promote, encourage, foster, advance, publicise, ecologically friendly alternatives, services and pruducts for Malta."

Genista Research Foundation has been recently set up with the aim of coordinating a pioneering project on sustainable farming to demonstrate practical systems in various sectors of farming and other sustainable practices where one is expected to take greater care of our environment and the health of the consumer. The project will also serve as an opportunity for further initiatives and practical research in the field of sustainable farming and other related ecological issues by providing technical assistance, courses, educational material and other informational activities.

The Foundation also co-ordinates a pioneering project on sustainable farming demonstrating environmentally friendly farming systems in various sectors of farming

Initiatives :

• Organic / biodynamic farming.
  
• Organic herbs cultivation.
• Organic food processing, avoiding additives and harmful chemicals in processed food.
  
• Free range animal husbandry.
  
• The setting up of an organic seed and plant distribution centre.
• waste management plans for local councils' separation of biodegradable waste and composting.
• promoting the use of biodegradable material.
• Rain water collection and conservation techniques.
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Through its educational activities and events the foundation encourages the protection of the natural environment together with the conservation of native agricultural landscapes, ensuring that agricultural activities care for the protection of valleys and landscapes of scientific interest.

Environmentally friendly farming promotes sustainable farming methods which are supported by European agricultural policies, a practice that deserves encouragement as it generates a positive health and environmental impact such as:

• Reducing health hazards posed to both the consumer and the farmer by the use of dangerous chemicals in conventional farming.
• Reducing the potential of nitrate leaching, contaminating the water table
• Beneficial impact on the wildlife population and biodiversity of flora and fauna of the Maltese islands