ISOFAR Board and Executive Board
The ISOFAR Board was elected September 24, 2005 at the ISOFAR general assembly in Adelaide, South Australia.
The Board consists of twelve members. The Executive Board has three members: Professor Dr. Ulrich Köpke (President), Dr. Urs Niggli (Vice-President), Dr. Niels Halberg (Treasurer).
Ben Kheder, Prof. Dr. Mohamed
Centre Technique d'Agriculture Biologique
B.P. 54
4042 Chatt Meriem, Sousse,
Tunisia
Tel. + 216 73 346 279
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+ 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.
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Dr. Niels Halberg
University of Aarhus - Faculty of Agricultural Sciences
Research Centre Foulum - Dept. of Agroecology
Blichers Allé 20, P.O. Box 50
8830 Tjele,
Denmark
Tel + 45 8999 1900
Fax +45 8999 1206
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Niels Halberg is a senior scientist in the Department of Agro-Ecology at the Danish Institute of Agricultural Sciences. He has more than 12 years of experience in the research and modelling of conventional and organic farming systems. Since the early 1990s, he has carried out on-farm studies on production and resource use in organic farms, including the modelling of environmental impacts. He has published papers on energy use and nutrient losses in organic and conventional farming systems, on the development and use of agri-environmental indicators and on Life Cycle Assessment targeted on optimising farm management and farming systems.
Prof. Dr. Ulrich Hamm
Universität Kassel
Fachgebiet Agrar- und Lebensmittelmarketing
Fachbereich Ökologische Agrarwissenschaften
P.O. Box 1252
37202 Witzenhausen,
Germany
Tel.: + 49 5542 98 1285
Fax + 49 5542 98 1286
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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.
Köpke, Prof. Dr. Ulrich (President)
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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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).
Prof. Dr. Edith Lammerts van Bueren
Louis Bolk Institut
Plant Breeding
Hoofdstraat 24
3972 LA Driebergen,
The Netherlands
Tel. +31 343-523869
Fax +31 343-515611
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Edith Lammerts van Bueren holds a part-time chair at Wageningen University (NL) as professor in Organic Plant Breeding since March 2005. She is also senior scientist and theme leader for Organic Plant Breeding at the Louis Bolk Institute. The Louis Bolk Institute is the only private Research Institute in the Netherlands specialised in Organic Agriculture, founded in 1976, and is widely recognised for linking farmer’s experiential knowledge and scientific innovation. In 2002, Lammerts van Bueren was awarded a PhD from Wageningen University on the basis of the research and development activities she had conducted at the Louis Bolk Institute over the previous fifteen years, together with organic farmers and seed companies. The title of the dissertation was Organic Plant Breeding: concepts and strategies. Edith is co-founder and president of the European Consortium for Organic Plant Breeding, and leader of the Working Group Organic Plant breeding of EUCARPIA (European Association for Research on Plant breeding).
Lockeretz, Prof. Dr. William
Tufts University
Friedman School of Nutrition
150 Harrison Ave.
02111 Boston, MA 02155
USA
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Since 1981, William Lockeretz has been at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University (Boston, USA), where he currently holds the rank of Professor. For its first 12 years he was editor of the American Journal of Alternative Agriculture, which he helped to found in 1986. He also is the editor or co-editor of 11 books on agriculture, most recently Animal Health and Welfare in Organic Agriculture, as well as Visions of American Agriculture and Environmentally Sound Agriculture. His work has been published in a wide variety of national and international journals, including Agronomy Journal, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Land Economics, Rural Sociology, Science, Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, and Biological Agriculture and Horticulture. He is the senior author of Agricultural Research Alternatives. From 2000 to 2002 he served on the US Department of Agriculture’s National Organic Standards Board. In 2003 received the “Spirit of Organic” award from the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements.
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Niggli, Dr. Urs (Vice-President)
Forschungsinstitut für biologischen Landbau (FiBL)
Ackerstrasse
5070 Frick, Schweiz
Tel. +41 62 8657-272
Fax +41 62 8657-273
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Urs Niggli has been Director of the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture FiBL in Switzerland since 1990. From 1979 to 1989, he worked as a weed scientist in arable and horticultural crops at Swiss federal research institutes in Zürich and Wädenswil. He was and is partner in various EU projects on organic agriculture, organised the 13th International Scientific Conference of IFOAM (Basel 2000) and co-edited the proceedings. He is lecturer for agroecology and organic farming at ETH Zurich, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. He is member of several advisory and expert committees on agricultural research in Switzerland and Germany and is President of FiBL Germany (Frankfurt).
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
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He 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.
Sohn, Prof. Dr. Sang Mok
Dankook University
Research Institute of Organic Agriculture
29 Anseo-dong
330-714 Cheonan,
Republic of Korea
Tel. +82 16 428 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.
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Ssekyewa, Charles
Uganda Martyrs University
Faculty of Agriculture
P.O. Box 5498
Kampala,
Uganda
Tel. +256 382410611
Fax +256 382410100
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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.
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Dr. Bertil Sylvander
Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique
INRA - SAD
Chemin de Borde Rouge - PO Box 52627, Chemin de Borde Rouge
31326 Castanet Tolosan,
France
Tél. + 33 5 61 28 55 15
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Bertil Sylvander is Research Director at the French National Institute for Agronomic Research (INRA Castanet Tolosan) in the Department of Economics. He is specialized in management of Quality Supply Chains in Europe, public policies and markets (Organic Farming and Food, Protected Designations of Origin, Farmhouse Products, etc.). Bertil Sylvander has been involved in those fields for several decades and has published reports and articles in a variety of refereed journals and books focused on agricultural economics and management. He is in charge of the French national research program on Organic Farming and of the national programme on geographical indications. He is currently co-ordinator for important research programmes in the framework of European Union.
Dr. Els Wynen
Eco Landuse Systems 3 Ramage Place, Flynn
2615 Canberra, ACT
Australia
Tel:+ 61 2 62583561
Fax:+ 61 2 62583561
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Els Wynen is director of Eco Landuse Systems, a research organisation in Canberra, Australia. She has worked in various national and international institutions as an agronomist and agricultural economist, including FAO in Africa and Rome, ESCAP in Thailand, and UNCTAD in Geneva; the Bureau of Agricultural Economics (BAE) in Canberra, and Denmark, the Danish Association of Organic Agriculture, the UK Department for International Development (DFID). Her work has included many topics such as the economics of organic farms, food security, research priorities in organic farming, UN Soil Convention, and harmonisation/equivalence of organic standards and regulations in the world.
