Events

The Regenerative Viticulture Foundation frequently hosts and participates in events, both virtual and physical. The dates and details of these events can be found here. If you would like to share an event to be listed here, please get in touch.

Bordeaux Agroecology Summit
2nd summit organised by the Agroecological Association of Carbouey. ‘The keys of agroecology: flow, sharing and balance’. Understanding cycles, going with the flow: a way to recharge and allow for nourishing agriculture.
15th November 2024
Bordeaux
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Napa Valley Grapegrowers Organic Winegrowing Conference
Starting at Frog’s leap with keynote speaker Albert Straus, then Tres Sabores (songbirds), Grgich Hills (organic vineyard floor management) and Yount Mill (composting and beneficial predators).
25th July 2024
8am - 3:30pm
Frog's Leap
£195 members, $285 non-members
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Advanced Soil Health Course at Cornell
7 week online international virtual workshop with leading scientists and practitioners. Weekly real-time live lectures are also recorded so the course can be attended asynchronously. Covering the basic principles and the latest science on measuring and managing soil health.
For practitioners, educators or students looing to advance their understanding of soil health.
Prerequisite: a basic understanding of agronomy, horticulture and soil science
Through this course, you will gain an understanding of:
- The connection between soil health and the grand challenge of sustaining future world populations
- Soil health principles and benefits of healthy soils
- Soil physical, biological and chemical processes affecting soil health
- Why and how soil health degradation occurs
- Approaches and methodologies for soil health assessment and interpretation
- Management solutions that improve soil health
- Educational and research approaches related to soil health
- How soil health metrics can be linked to management approaches
1st October to 12 November 2024
10am-12 noon EST with recordings available
Online with Cornell University
$250 plus scholarships
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Rodale’s Annual Field Day
The Rodale Institute’s annual organic field day. Learn the latest results of farming trials and visit 20 demonstration stations, interact with experts and learn about a wide variety of projects
19th July 2024
8:30-4pm
Kutztown PA
$25
CSU Chico Regen Ag TAP certification programme
Center for Regen Ag and Resilient Systems (CRARS) has developed the Regenerative Agriculture Technical Assistance Provider (TAP) Certification Program to support the expansion of systems-based farm, ranch, and forest management practices on California working lands, and foster conversation and innovative, collaborative strategies to address current and future threats and opportunities for California agricultural production.
If you are looking to refresh your knowledge with the most current information and research on regenerative agriculture, are already a conservation planner or hoping to become a conservation planner, this program could be valuable for you. With a TAP certificate from CRARS, you will be able to act as a conservation planner for several USDA programs, including RCPP and Climate Smart Commodities, state programs, including CDFA HSP, and private organizations interested in funding different types of conservation plans, such as carbon farm plans.
Register by 1 August 2024
Online
Partial scholarships available
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Emergent Generation Summer Gathering
If you are 18-35 and passionate about sustainability in the food system, this unique and inspiring two day event in the Cotswolds is for you. Learn about agroecology and regenerative thinking, connect with like-minded people, gain confidence, share knowledge.
12-14th September 2024
Conygree Farm, Cheltenham UK
From £55
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Viticulture Grandeur Nature online training programme
Extensive training with top experts by and for wine growers. Developed from the needs expressed by professionals. Allows you to build or adapt your practices, adopt new technical and economic solutions and/or make decisions according to your production project. Understand the ecology of the vine, the biology and life of the soil, learn about fertility. 90 hours of online training designed by Arbre et Paysage 32 and offered by Ver de Terre Production
Thursdays 25th September 2024 to 30th April 2025
6pm
Online in French
1600-2500 euros
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‘Introduction to RV’ two day course
RVF Trustee Justin Howard-Sneyd is back with his fantastic course on RV. New venue West Dean in West Sussex
9-11th September, 2024
6:45pm Mon 9th September till 3pm Weds 11th September
West Dean College, Sussex
£475
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World Living Soils Forum
Moet Hennessy and ChangeNOW bring a 2nd international soil conservation forum to Arles
9-10th October 2024
Arles, France
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Most purposes explained in this notice rely on the storage or accessing of information from your device when you use an app or visit a website. For example, a vendor or publisher might need to store a cookie on your device during your first visit on a website, to be able to recognise your device during your next visits (by accessing this cookie each time).

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A car manufacturer wants to promote its electric vehicles to environmentally conscious users living in the city after office hours. The advertising is presented on a page with related content (such as an article on climate change actions) after 6:30 p.m. to users whose non-precise location suggests that they are in an urban zone.
A large producer of watercolour paints wants to carry out an online advertising campaign for its latest watercolour range, diversifying its audience to reach as many amateur and professional artists as possible and avoiding showing the ad next to mismatched content (for instance, articles about how to paint your house). The number of times that the ad has been presented to you is detected and limited, to avoid presenting it too often.

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If you read several articles about the best bike accessories to buy, this information could be used to create a profile about your interest in bike accessories. Such a profile may be used or improved later on, on the same or a different website or app to present you with advertising for a particular bike accessory brand. If you also look at a configurator for a vehicle on a luxury car manufacturer website, this information could be combined with your interest in bikes to refine your profile and make an assumption that you are interested in luxury cycling gear.
An apparel company wishes to promote its new line of high-end baby clothes. It gets in touch with an agency that has a network of clients with high income customers (such as high-end supermarkets) and asks the agency to create profiles of young parents or couples who can be assumed to be wealthy and to have a new child, so that these can later be used to present advertising within partner apps based on those profiles.

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An online retailer wants to advertise a limited sale on running shoes. It wants to target advertising to users who previously looked at running shoes on its mobile app. Tracking technologies might be used to recognise that you have previously used the mobile app to consult running shoes, in order to present you with the corresponding advertisement on the app.
A profile created for personalised advertising in relation to a person having searched for bike accessories on a website can be used to present the relevant advertisement for bike accessories on a mobile app of another organisation.

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You read several articles on how to build a treehouse on a social media platform. This information might be added to a profile to mark your interest in content related to outdoors as well as do-it-yourself guides (with the objective of allowing the personalisation of content, so that for example you are presented with more blog posts and articles on treehouses and wood cabins in the future).
You have viewed three videos on space exploration across different TV apps. An unrelated news platform with which you have had no contact builds a profile based on that viewing behaviour, marking space exploration as a topic of possible interest for other videos.

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You read articles on vegetarian food on a social media platform and then use the cooking app of an unrelated company. The profile built about you on the social media platform will be used to present you vegetarian recipes on the welcome screen of the cooking app.
You have viewed three videos about rowing across different websites. An unrelated video sharing platform will recommend five other videos on rowing that may be of interest to you when you use your TV app, based on a profile built about you when you visited those different websites to watch online videos.

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You have clicked on an advertisement about a “black Friday” discount by an online shop on the website of a publisher and purchased a product. Your click will be linked to this purchase. Your interaction and that of other users will be measured to know how many clicks on the ad led to a purchase.
You are one of very few to have clicked on an advertisement about an “international appreciation day” discount by an online gift shop within the app of a publisher. The publisher wants to have reports to understand how often a specific ad placement within the app, and notably the “international appreciation day” ad, has been viewed or clicked by you and other users, in order to help the publisher and its partners (such as agencies) optimise ad placements.

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You have read a blog post about hiking on a mobile app of a publisher and followed a link to a recommended and related post. Your interactions will be recorded as showing that the initial hiking post was useful to you and that it was successful in interesting you in the related post. This will be measured to know whether to produce more posts on hiking in the future and where to place them on the home screen of the mobile app.
You were presented a video on fashion trends, but you and several other users stopped watching after 30 seconds. This information is then used to evaluate the right length of future videos on fashion trends.

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The owner of an online bookstore wants commercial reporting showing the proportion of visitors who consulted and left its site without buying, or consulted and bought the last celebrity autobiography of the month, as well as the average age and the male/female distribution of each category. Data relating to your navigation on its site and to your personal characteristics is then used and combined with other such data to produce these statistics.
An advertiser wants to better understand the type of audience interacting with its adverts. It calls upon a research institute to compare the characteristics of users who interacted with the ad with typical attributes of users of similar platforms, across different devices. This comparison reveals to the advertiser that its ad audience is mainly accessing the adverts through mobile devices and is likely in the 45-60 age range.

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A technology platform working with a social media provider notices a growth in mobile app users, and sees based on their profiles that many of them are connecting through mobile connections. It uses a new technology to deliver ads that are formatted for mobile devices and that are low-bandwidth, to improve their performance.
An advertiser is looking for a way to display ads on a new type of consumer device. It collects information regarding the way users interact with this new kind of device to determine whether it can build a new mechanism for displaying advertising on this type of device.

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A travel magazine has published an article on its website about the new online courses proposed by a language school, to improve travelling experiences abroad. The school’s blog posts are inserted directly at the bottom of the page, and selected on the basis of your non-precise location (for instance, blog posts explaining the course curriculum for different languages than the language of the country you are situated in).
A sports news mobile app has started a new section of articles covering the most recent football games. Each article includes videos hosted by a separate streaming platform showcasing the highlights of each match. If you fast-forward a video, this information may be used to select a shorter video to play next.

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An advertising intermediary delivers ads from various advertisers to its network of partnering websites. It notices a large increase in clicks on ads relating to one advertiser, and uses data regarding the source of the clicks to determine that 80% of the clicks come from bots rather than humans.

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Clicking on a link in an article might normally send you to another page or part of the article. To achieve this, 1°) your browser sends a request to a server linked to the website, 2°) the server answers back (“here is the article you asked for”), using technical information automatically included in the request sent by your device, to properly display the information / images that are part of the article you asked for. Technically, such exchange of information is necessary to deliver the content that appears on your screen.

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When you visit a website and are offered a choice between consenting to the use of profiles for personalised advertising or not consenting, the choice you make is saved and made available to advertising providers, so that advertising presented to you respects that choice.

Events

Bordeaux Agroecology Summit

Napa Valley Grapegrowers Organic Winegrowing Conference

Advanced Soil Health Course at Cornell

Rodale’s Annual Field Day

CSU Chico Regen Ag TAP certification programme

Emergent Generation Summer Gathering

Viticulture Grandeur Nature online training programme

‘Introduction to RV’ two day course

World Living Soils Forum