Sections and working groups
Heads and Vice heads of the ISOFAR Sections & Working Groups
ISOFAR Section 1: Arable Cropping Systems (ACS)
- Prof. Dr. Ulrich Köpke, Institute of Organic Agriculture (IOL), Univ. Bonn, D-53115 Bonn
ISOFAR Section 2: Grassland Systems (GLS)
- PD Dr. Andreas Lüscher, Forschungsanstalt für Agrarökologie und Landbau (FAL), CH-8046 Zürich
- Nilla Nilsdotter-Linde, SLU, Fältforskningsenheten, S-750 07 Uppsala
ISOFAR Section 3: Perennial Cropping Systems (PCS)
- Dr. Hanne Lindhard Pedersen, Danish Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Horticulture, DK-5792 Arslev
- Dr. Franco Weibel, FiBL, CH-5070 Frick
ISOFAR Section 4: Vegetable Production Systems (VPS)
- Prof. Dr.Mohamed Ben Kheder, Centre Technique de l'Agriculture Biologique
B.P 54, Chatt Meriem , TN-4042 Sousse - Prof. Dr.Carlo Leifert, Tesco Centre for Organic Agriculture, UK-NE43 7XD Stocksfield, Northumberland
ISOFAR Section 5: Soil Fertility (SOF)
- Prof. Dr.Sang Mok Sohn, Dan Kook University, Research Institute of Organic Agriculture, KO-330-714 Cheonan, E-Mail smsohn@dku.edu
- Dr. Christine Watson, Land Management Department at SAC, UK- Aberdeen, AB21 9Ya
ISOFAR Section 6: Plant Breeding and Seed Production (PBS)
- Dr.Edith Lammerts van Bueren, Louis Bolk Instituut, NL-3972 LA Driebergen
l - Dr. Hanne Østergård, Risø National Laboratory, Plant Research Department, DK-4000 Roskilde
ISOFAR Section 7: Animal Production Systems (APS)
- Dr. PDGerold Rahmann, Bundesforschungsanstalt für Landwirtschaft (FAL), Institut für ökologischen Landbau, D-23847 Westerau
ISOFAR Section 8: Animal Health and Welfare (AHW)
- Dr. Malla Hovi, Veterinary Epidemiology and Economics Research, UK-RG6 6 Reading
- Dr. Stig Milan Thamsborg, Danish Centre for Experimental Parasitology, UK-1870 6 Frederiksberg C
ISOFAR Section 9: Socio-Economics
- Dr. Nicolas Lampkin, Institute of Rural Sciences, University of Wales, UK- SY23 3AL Aberystwyth Ceredigion
ISOFAR Section 9.1: Marketing
- Prof. Dr.Ulrich Hamm, Universität Kassel; Fachgebiet Agrar- und Lebensmittelmarketing, D-37213 Witzenhausen
- Dr.Toralf Richter, FiBL, Ackerstrasse /Postfach, CH-5070 Frick
ISOFAR Section 9.2: Sustainability
- Dr. John Erik Hermansen, Danish Institute of Agricultural Sciences, DK-8830 Tjele
ISOFAR Section 9.3: Farm Economics
- Dr.Frank Offermann, Fal, Institut für Betriebswirtschaft, D-38116 Braunschweig
ISOFAR Section 9.4: Agropolicy
- Prof. Dr.Raffaele Zanoli, UNIVPM, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica, Gestionale dell'Automazione (DIIGA), I-60131 Ancona
- Dr.Hiltrud Nieberg, FAL, Institut für Betriebswirtschaft, D-38116 Braunschweig
ISOFAR Section 10: Food Quality and health (FQH)
- Dr. Kirsten Brandt, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, School of Agriculture,
Food and Rural Development, UK-NE1 7RU Newcastle, United Kingdom
- Prof. Dr.Angelika Meier-Ploeger, Universität Kassel; Fachgebiet Ökologische Lebensmittelqualität und Ernährungskultur, D-37213 Witzenhausen
ISOFAR Section 11: Environmental Biodiversity Impact Assessment (EAS)
- N.N.
ISOFAR Section 12: Crop Protection and habitat management (CPH)
- Prof. Dr.Miguel Altieri, University of California, Berkeley, US- Berkeley, CA 94720-3112
- Dr.Charles Ssekyewa, Uganda Martyrs University, Faculty of Agriculture, UG- Kampala, Uganda
ISOFAR Working Group 1: Implications of Organic Principles for Research Methodology
- Dr.Erik Steen Kristensen, Danish Research Centre for Organic Farming (DARCOF), DK-8830 Tjele
- Lawrence Woodward, Elm Farm Research Centre, UK- Berkshire RG20 0HR
ISOFAR Working Group 2: Organic Agriculture and Biotechnology (OAB)
- Dr. Urs Niggli, FiBL, CH-5070 Frick, E-Mail
- Christopher Stopes, Eco-Stopes Consultancy, UK- Newbury, Berkshire, RG 14 - 6 PP
ISOFAR Working Group 3: Participatory and On-Farm Research (POR)
- Prof. William Lockeretz, Tufts University, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, 150 Harrison Avenue, USA- Boston, Massachusetts 02111
- Dr. Prabha Mahale, IND-122 002 Gurgaon, Haryana
ISOFAR Working Group 4: Long-term experiments (LTE)
- Dr.Joachim Raupp, Institut für biologisch-dynamische Forschung e.V., D-64295 Darmstadt
- Dr.Paul Mäder, FiBL, CH-5070 Frick
Infomation on the working group long term experiments
ISOFAR Working Group 5: Rural and Regional Development (RRD)
- Prof. Dr.Bernhard Freyer, BOKU, Institut für ökologischen Landbau, A-1180 Wien
