Organic Fruit Conference, co-organised by ISHS
About the Conference
The Organic Fruit Conference will be held just prior to the 16th IFOAM Organic World Congress OWC, and is organised by the Commission “Sustainability trough Integrated and Organic Horticulture” of the International Society for Horticultural Science IHSH .
- For detailed and updated information on the fruit conference please check the conference homepage.
The conference will cover a wide range of fruit tree and berry species, including Mediterranean species such as olives, citrus, stone- and pipfruit. Papers on tropical and subtropical fruit species are also welcome. Beside production and sustainability-oriented themes fruit quality, economic, public relations and marketing, ecological and human-health issues are considered as topics.
This conference offers an opportunity for researchers not only to present scientific presentations with a peer-reviewed publication in Acta Horticulturae but also interaction with organic fruit producers and marketing specialists.
There will be a wide range of “pre and post” tours that will be offered to participants including excursions with visits to organic fruit farms. Participants can benefit from the possibility to also attend the IFOAM/ISOFAR Congress that will take place right after the Organic Fruit Conference.
Oral and Poster presentations and discussion forums will be organized in (partly) parallel workshops following the main topics of the conference:
- Advances in organic fruit production methods
- The effects of existing or novel organic methods and systems on sustainability
- Fruit quality, economic, public relations and marketing, ecological and human-health issues
Paper Submission & Publication
The deadline for the submission of the contribution was November 15th 2007.
All papers will be submitted to the joint platform in Organic Eprints.
Contributions should consist of a short paper on 4 pages if you chose the option A) described below. Otherwise, if you prefer option B), only a 500 words abstract needs to be submitted within the given deadline
Please hold in due consideration that to selected authors will be offered two options for publication:
A) 4-page paper in the ISOFAR proceedings
published before the Organic Fruit Conference (guidelines for manuscripts at www.isofar.org/modena2008/guidelines.html)
B) A 8-page article, in a separately-produced volume of Acta Horticulturae (www.actahort.org)
which will be peer-reviewed and published after the Organic Fruit Conference. Deadline for manuscripts is June 16th, 2008.
For guidelines for abstracts see www.isofar.org/modena2008/guidelines.html; for guidelines for manuscripts see www.ishs.org/acta).
The option of publishing in Acta Horticulturae requires an extra fee of 65 € for each accepted paper. Acceptance or rejection of a manuscript will be based on scientific peer-review by the Symposium Editorial Board. The fee also includes a free volume of the Acta and a complimentary membership in ISHS for one year (includes 10 free downloads of any Acta Horticulturae articles) for the corresponding author.
Conference Language
The conference language is English.
Scientific Committee
- Robert K. Prange
- Franco P. Weibel
- Silvero Sansavini
- Bruno Marangoni
- Antonio Corletto
- David Granatstein
- François Warlop
Contact
Franco Weibel
Research Institute of Organic Farming (FiBL),
CH-5070 Frick, Switzerland
Tel.: +41 62 865 72 42
Fax: +41 62 865 72 73
Mob.: +41 79 606 3 808
Robert Prange
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Atlantic Food and Horticulture Research, Centre
32 Main Street
Kentville, Nova Scotia B4N 1J5
Canada
Tel: +1 902 679 5713
Fax: +1 902 679 2311
