ISOFAR Board and Executive Board
The current ISOFAR Board was elected on 28th of September 2011 at the ISOFAR general assembly in Gyeonggi Paldang, Republic of Korea.
The Board consists of twelve members. The Executive Board has three members:
President |
Prof. Dr. Sang Mok Sohn |
Vicepresident |
Dr. Anne-Kristin Loes |
Treasurer |
Prof. Dr. Gerold Rahmann |
Prof. Dr. Mohamed Ben Kheder
Centre Technique d'Agriculture Biologique
B.P. 54
4042 Chatt Meriem, Sousse,
Tunisia
Tel. + 216 73 346 279
Fax
+ 216 73 346 278
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Mohamed Ben Kheder has been the Director of the Tunisian Technical Center of Organic Agriculture (Tunisia) since 2000, and is currently Professor at the Horticultural Institute of Chatt Mariem at the University of Sousse, Tunesia. He completed his Ph. D. in physiology and breeding of vegetable crops at Cornell University (USA) between 1979 and 1983. His research includes activities on the variety adaptation of vegetables, fertilization, compost, and compost tea used as fertilizer and as a phyto-sanitary product. He is a member of many committees, including the Mediterranean Organic Agricultural Network.
Curriculum
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Dr. Carmelita Nidea Cervantes
Carmelita N. Cervantes is an associate professor and heads the Extension Services Division and the Bicol Organic Agriculture Center (ORGANIKA) at Central Bicol State University of Agriculture, Camarines Sur, Philippines. She obtained her Ph.D. in Agronomy at University of the Philippines at Los Banos Philippines. Dr. Cervantes played a major role in positioning organic agriculture as a priority R&D agenda of the university and the region. For many years, she has been conducting intensive research, extension and advisory works on organic farming and specializes in areas on crop and seed production research, and sustainable area development planning in the local and national level.Dr. Cervantes is an organic farmer as well. She manages Carmel Farms which serves as her laboratory for new ideas and training ground for students and farmers wanting to pursue organic agriculture. To her, reaching out to the poorest farmers through organic farming is a life mission.
Prof. Dr. Peter von Fragstein und Niemsdorff
Universität Kassel
Fachgebiet Ökologischer Gemüsebau
Fachbereich Ökologische Agrarwissenschaften
37202 Witzenhausen,
Germany
Tel.: + 49 5542 98 1567
Fax: + 49 5542 98 1568
Peter von Fragstein und Niemsdorff is the leader of the Section Organic Vegetable Production at the the Faculty of Organic Agricultural Sciences, University of Kassel. His experience in acadamic teaching and research on topics of organic agriculture and horticulture is dating back over 30 years. In 1981 he followed Hardy Vogtmann as Senior scientist from the University of Hohenheim to the new founded Department of Methods of Alternative Farming at the University of Kassel.
Prof. Dr. Ulrich Hamm
Universität Kassel
Fachgebiet Agrar- und Lebensmittelmarketing
Fachbereich Ökologische Agrarwissenschaften
37202 Witzenhausen,
Germany
Tel.: + 49 5542 98 1285
Fax + 49 5542 98 1286
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E-mail
Ulrich Hamm studied agricultural economics at Hohenheim University, Stuttgart, Germany. After a Professorship for agricultural marketing in Neubrandenburg (1993 -2003) he became Professor for Agricultural and Food Marketing at Kassel University in the Faculty of Organic Agricultural Sciences, the first faculty in Europe dedicated solely to OA. U. Hamm has been involved in market research in OA for over 25 years.
Prof. Dr. Ulrich Köpke
Institut für Organischen Landbau
Rheinische-Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität
Katzenburgweg 3
D-53115 Bonn
Tel. +49 228 735616
Fax +49 228 735617
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Homepage
Ulrich Köpke is Professor for Organic Agriculture, University of Bonn since 1987 and Director of the Institute of Organic Agriculture (IOL) and of the organic research farm ‘Wiesengut’. He launched and participated in various international research, advisory and lecturing activities and was partner in several EU concerted actions and research projects on Organic Agriculture. He is on the board of various German research funds, of expert groups for agronomy, landscape and environment and of foundations committed to ecology. Editor of the Proceedings of the 9th International IFOAM Conference in Brazil (1992).
Dr. Anne-Kristin Løes (Vice-President)
Bioforsk Organic Food and Farming Division
Senior researcher
Tingvoll Gard
Norway - 6630 Tingvoll
Tel. +47 404 79 962
Fax +47 71534405
Anne-Kristin Løes (born 1961) grew up on a traditional Norwegian farm, graduated in soil science (MSc) at the Agricultural University of Norway in 1986 and completed a Dr. Scientiarum degree in plant nutrition and soil fertility at the same university in 2003. Employed by Bioforsk, she has been working with organic farming systems since 1988, focussing on nutrient supply and uptake, manuring and soil fertility. Anne-Kristin Løes has worked with long-term farm level case studies and research administration. She has lead research projects about farmers’ motivation for organic farming, and innovative ways to increase the consumption of organic food in public serving outlets for youth (iPOPY). Løes leads a working group on organic farming systems within the Nordic Association of Agricultural Scientists (NJF), and is the national editor of the digital archive Organic e-prints.
Prof. Dr. László Radics
Corvinus University of Budapest
Department of Ecological and Sustainable Production Systems
Villanyi ut 29-43
1118 Budapest,
Hungary
Tel: +36 1 4826235
Fax: +36 1 4826325
E-mail
László Radics is the Head of the Department of Ecological and Sustainable Production Systems at Corvinus University of Budapest. He obtained a MSc degree of the University of Agricultural Sciences, Gödöllő as an agricultural engineer in 1973. Hence he worked at the same University in Gödöllő from 1975 until 1990, teaching soil tillage, weed control and plant cultivation while and doing his research works in agro-ecological weed management. Since 1991 he is head of the department at his present workplace, since 2000 with his own Professorship. He introduced ‘Organic farming’ into the education at the University. Furthermore he is author of many scientific and popularising articles about non-chemical weed management and about organic farming in Hungarian and international journals.
Curriculum vitae (.pdf)
Prof. Dr. Gerold Rahmann (Treasurer)
Institute of Organic Farming
Johann Heinrich von Thuenen Institute
Trenthorst 32
23847 Westerau
Germany
Prof Dr Gerold Rahmann is funding director (established in the year 2000) of the Institute of Organic Farming at the Johann Heinrich von Thuenen-Institute (vTI: www.vti.bund.de). The vTI is part of the research infrastructure of the German ministry of consumer protection, agriculture and nutrition (BMELV) and has the main subject to design sustainable resource use strategies in rural areas, forestry and fisheries to advise the ministry at an excellent scientific level. Prof. Rahmann is a socio-economist and specialized on New Farming Systems Research and Development (NFSR+D) and has worked many years in interdisciplinary teams in tropic and sub-tropic countries as well as in German and EC projects related to low input farming systems. His recent research group with 30 scientists focuses on the development of (a) organic animal husbandry, (b) organic crop production and (c) organic grassland management. He has 38 peer-reviewed scientific, >250 other papers, and 15 books published. The design of policy decision frameworks is an important part of his work.
Dr. Ilse Rasmussen
Ilse A. Rasmussen is working as Organic Eprints coordinator and scientific officer at the International Centre for Research in Organic Food Systems (ICROFS) where her main responsibilities are coordination of the Danish research programme in Organic Agriculture, Organic RDD 2011-2014, and the open access archive on research in organic food systems Organic Eprints. She has been active as a senior scientist at the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Aarhus University, from 1989 to 2010. Her main task was research on weed biology, prevention and control, especially concerning non-chemical weed control and weed management in organic farming. She worked on the whole plant production system including crop rotation and nutrition, even though her focus was on arable cash crops such as cereals. Earlier Ilse was an advisor in organic farming and previously teacher in organic farming. She has been a member of ISOFAR since the start, has been active in the working group on Long-Term Experiments, published a paper in the first ISOFAR publication (Long Term Field Experiments in Organic Farming) and has been active as an editor for the ISOFAR conferences in 2008 and 2011.
Prof. Dr. Sang Mok Sohn
Dankook University
Research Institute of Organic Agriculture
29 Anseo-dong
330-714 Cheonan,
Republic of Korea
Tel. +82 41 550 3663
Mobile +82 10 4028 2939
Fax +82 41 568 3633
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Sang Mok Sohn has completed his Ph D at the University of Göttingen/Germany and has been Professor at Dankook University since 1986. Since 1998 he is director of the ,Research Institute of Organic Agriculture’ affiliated to the ,Dankook University, Cheonan, Republic of Korea. He was President of ARNOA (Asian Research Network of Organic Agriculture) between 2001-2004.
Curriculum
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Curriculum
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Ssekyewa, Charles
Uganda Martyrs University
Faculty of Agriculture
P.O. Box 5498
Kampala,
Uganda
Tel. +256 382410611
Fax +256 382410100
E-mail
Charles Ssekyewa is a Senior Lecturer at Uganda Martyrs University and was Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture from 2000 to 2005. He has published many scientific papers on disease problems in vegetable growing, on bio control and IPM and has worked as African advisor and country coordinator of the Seeds for Africa Charitable Trust, UK. He was Chairman of the interim steering committee for Establishment of a Horticulture Research and a Development Network in Eastern, Southern and Central Africa from 1998 to 2000. He is member of the National Organic Agriculture Movement of Uganda which is affiliated to IFOAM, Board member of the Equator Valley Farm and on-farm research site of Uganda Martyrs University.
Curriculum
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Prof. Dr. Wu Wenliang
2 Yuanmingyuan Xilu
Haidian District, Beijing
College of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences
China Agricultural University
PC: 1000193
Tel: 86—10—62736537,62732387,
Fax:86—10—62732387 ,62732798
E-mail: wuwenl@cau.edu.cn
Dr. Wu Wenliang is a Professor of Ecology and Organic Agriculture in College of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences in China Agricultural University (CAU) , He is the Director of Academic Affairs Office of CAU the Director of CAU—UCR International Center for Ecology and Sustainability , He is also in charge of the Centre for Organic Food Certification and Research. Besides, he is appointed to the chief scientist of a key state’s Tenth-Five-Year Plan program “Study and demonstration of the technical system for ecological agriculture”. He is the Board Member of International Center for Research in Organic Food System(ICROFS) in Denmark.
ISOFAR Board 2009-2011
- Mohamed Ben Kheder
- Niels Halberg (Vice-President)
- Ulrich Hamm (Treasurer)
- Ulrich Köpke (President)
- Carlo Leifert
- William Lockeretz
- Anne-Kristin Løes
- László Radics
- Aliyaru Kunju Sherief
- Sang Mok Sohn
- Charles Ssekyewa
ISOFAR Board 2005-2008
- Mohamed Ben Kheder
- Niels Halberg (Treasurer)
- Ulrich Hamm
- Ulrich Köpke (President)
- Edith Lammerts van Bueren
- William Lockeretz
- Urs Niggli (Vicepresident)
- László Radics
- Sang Mok Sohn
- Ssekyewa, Charles
