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International Conference on Organic Agriculture in Scope of Environmental Problems, 03-07 February 2010, Famagusta, Cyprus Island
ICOA is a unique opportunity for scientists, researchers, scholars, agriculture professionals and N.G.O managements to share their works and experience, exchange ideas and find new cooperation opportunities....More
The Ecofruit Conference in Stuttgart-Hohenheim, 22 - 24 February 2010
International Conference on Cultivation Technique and Phytopathological Problems in Organic Fruit-Growing
The biennial conference represents a continuation of thirteen meetings, starting from 1990. It is intended to bring together researchers working on topics interesting for organic fruit growing to discuss latest results with regard to the improvement of organic fruit production systems.....MORE
Call for Abstracts: ISOFAR /MOAN Symposium, March 23- 25, 2010 in Sousse (Tunisia)
Soil Fertility and Crop Nutrition Management in Mediterranean Organic Agriculture
This symposium offers a great opportunity for all interested participants to learn and exchange information and experience about soil fertility, crop fertilization and in particular organic matter management, such as composting, in Organic Farming under Mediterranean conditions. ...More
28th International Horticultural Congress, August 22-27, 2010, Lisboa (Portugal)
Symposium: Organic Horticulture: Productivity and sustainability
The objetcive of the Symposium is to provide a forum among researchers, extension workers and horticulturists, to discuss worldwide innovations in the fields of science and technology, market trends and policies....More
The 8th International Symposium on the Nutrition of Herbivores (ISNH8)‘Herbivores in a changing World’, 6th – 9th September 2011, Aberystwyth, Wales UK
Animal agriculture is at a crossroads; competing pressures for land with alternative
forms of land use, the need to both mitigate against and adapt to the effects
of climate change combined with the need to meet societies demand for safe
nutritious food produced at low costs. This symposium presents a unique
opportunity for scientists and other stakeholders to work together to shape
the future of herbivore production.....More
First Meeting Research on Organic Greenhouse Horticulture
11-14 October 2010, Bleiswijk, The Netherlands
The Working Group “Organic Greenhouse Horticulture” will meet on the 11-14 October 2010, in Bleiswijk, The Netherlands. The meeting will feature 4 days of presentations and workshop discussions on organic greenhouse horticulture, and will include a tour to organic greenhouse farms, an organic distributor of vegetables as well as a visit of The Hortifair. Topics of this meeting will include among others soil management, energy use and management, crop health, crop management, nursery production, economics, social and ecological and environmental aspects, standards, product quality, etcetera......More
First African Organic Conference 2009 (May 19th-22nd,2009), Kampala, Uganda
More than 200 participants from all over the world have participated in the congress, which was focused on evaluating the opportunities for Organic Agriculture in Africa.
The upcoming ISOFAR Newsletter will give a report on the highlights of the event!
Selected presentation can be downloaded here:
- U.Köpke, Institute of Organic Agriculture: Research in Organic Agriculture:essential for successful system management and technological evolution
- M. K. Muwanga, National Organic Agricultural Movement of Uganda: Impact of PGS, Farm Adoption of ICS and Group Marketing on Household Income
- N. Halberg & L. Andreasen, International Centre for Research in Organic Food Systems: Challenges in meeting European consumer demands for organic products from Africa
- G. Rahmann,
von Thünen-Institute, Trenthorst, Germany:Organic farming in Africa–between global food markets and food sovereignty–
- M. Schneider, FiBL: Long-term farming systems comparisons in the tropics:First results from Kenya
- Ssekyewa C. & Muwanga M. K.: Biotechnology in Organic Agriculture in Africa: a myth or an oversight?
- P. Van Damme: Indigenous biodiversity as a potential source of crops for future satisfaction of consumer demand
- D. Neuhoff, University of Bonn & M. Tadesse, Ambo Plant Protection ResearchCenter: Potential and research needs for home made bio-pesticides for African Organic Agriculture
- B. van Elzakker, Louis Bolk Institute: Post harvest handling and export market quality issues for organic products in Africa
- The Book of abstracts is available here.
National Platform of Organic Farming in Hungary
A National Platform of Organic Farming has recently been established in Hungary.
QualityLowInputFood - The Integrated Project QualityLowInputFood ended in April 2009.
The project aims were to improve quality, ensure safety and reduce cost along the organic and "low input" food supply chains through research, dissemination and training activities.
New ISOFAR Board elected in Modena
(July 7, 2008) A new ISOFAR Board was elected June 21, 2008 at the ISOFAR general assembly in Modena, Italy. The Board consists of twelve members. The Executive Board has three members: Professor Dr. Ulrich Köpke (President), Dr. Niels Halberg (Vicepresident) and Prof. Dr. Ulrich Hamm (Treasurer). More
Proceedings of the second ISOFAR Conference
(July 1, 2008) From 18 to 20 June 2008 the second conference of the International Society of Agriculture Research was held in Modena, Italy, in conjunction with the 16th IFOAM Organic World Congress OWC . The proceedings, which are now available in the FiBL shop (PDF/hardcopy) contain 380 papers related to all aspects of organic farming.
The first volume deals mainly with various aspects of organic crop production, which traditionally represent the largest share of all papers submitted to conferences on organic agriculture.
The second volume gives insights into the increasing research activities on animal husbandry, socio-economics, interdisciplinary research projects. Furthermore it contains the papers for the five workshops of the Integrated project Quality Low Input Food which was held as part of the ISOFAR conference.
International Centre for Research in Organic Food Systems
(June 10, 2008) The International Centre for Research in Organic Food Systems (ICROFS) is a newly established centre without walls funded by the Danish Ministry of Food and Agriculture. ICROFS has the objective of supporting the production and use of organic food through research. The centre initiates, supports and coordinates research of high quality in Denmark, Europe and internationally by involving researchers from a large number of universities and research institutions. The centre builds on the 10 years of experience of DARCOF (www.darcof.dk) but will have an international mandate and board with members from Africa, Asia, America and Europe.
First Volume of the ISOFAR Scientific Series published: Long Term Field Experiments in Organic Farming
(May 18, 2006) The first volume of the ISOFAR Scientific Series has now been published. This book series presents the results of organic farming research carried out by members of the ISOFAR working group on long term field expperiments (LTE).
The volume "Long Term Field Experiments in Organic Farming" contains a selection of 12 long-term experiments conducted under different site conditions in Germany, the USA, Italy, Denmark, Switzerland, Austria and Israel. Each experiment has a unique concept and scientific approach. But their common objective is to investigate characteristics of Organic Agriculture regarding key parameters of soil fertility, crop yield and quality.
Proceedings of the first EUCARPIA symposium on Organic Plant Breeding now available
(February 8, 2008) The first EUCARPIA symposium on Organic Plant Breeding - Plant breeding for organic and sustainable, low-input agriculture: dealing with genotype-environment interactions - took place in Wageningen in November 2007. EUCARPIA is the European Association for Research on Plant Breeding. The event was organised in cooperation with Cost Action 860 (COST860 - Sustainable low-input cereal production: required varietal characteristics and crop diversity, SUSVAR), the European Consortium of Ecological Plant Breeding ECOPB, ISOFAR and the the Graduate School Production Ecology & Resource Conservation and Wageningen University.
The proceedings are now available at the Organic Eprints archive.
New book organic food safety and quality
(January 24, 2008) Due to increasing consumer demand for safe, high quality, ethical foods, the production and consumption of organic food and produce has increased rapidly over the past two decades. In recent years the safety and quality of organic foods has been questioned. If consumer confidence and demand in the industry is to remain high, the safety, quality and health benefits of organic foods must be assured. The new Handbook of organic food safety and quality provides a comprehensive review of the latest research in the area.
The Handbook of organic food safety and quality issued in 2007 provides a comprehensive review of the latest research in the area.
- Handbook of organic food safety and quality. Edited by J Cooper, C Leifert and U Niggli. Woodhead Publishing, Cambridge. More
