Meetings
June 18, 2008: Workshop Vision for an Organic Food and Farming Research Agenda 2025
(May 20, 2008) On the 18th of June 2008 a workshop on the Vision for an Organic Food and Farming Research Agenda 2025 took place fom 11.15 to 1 pm in the frame of the 16th IFOAM Organic World Congress of the 2008 in Modena, Italy.
Organic farming is a productive low-input agricultural system, emphasising sustainability and offering innovative concepts for global problems. The IFOAM-EU Group and ISOFAR have developed a strategic research program that focuses on ecological intensification, sustainable rural regions, high quality food for healthy nutrition and on integrating people and their ethical values into the future evolvement of food production. The workshop invites farmers, processors, traders, NGOs and scientists to debate how the practical and scientific aspects should co-operate on future innovations.
Programme
11:15 Strengthening the impact of the organic sector on the research priorities of the EU
Anamarija Slabe
11:25 Future research priorities for organic agriculture in the context of the current global sustainability debate
Urs Niggli
11:40 Open discussion on organic agriculture as an ethical value system for research
Chair Anamarija Slabe
12:00 Open discussion on organic agriculture and regional and global economies
Chair Otto Schmid
12.20 Open discussion on organic agriculture and ecological intensification
Chair Urs Niggli
12.40 Open discussion on organic food, healthy diets and human well-being
Chair: Urs Niggli
Contact
February 24, 2008, Meeting at BioFach
On February 24, 2008 an open stakeholder meeting took place at BioFach, Nürnberg. Germany to prepare the wide consultation round on the vision paper launched at the beginning of April 2008.
December 4 and 5, 2007, Meeting in Brussels
At the European Organic Congress on December 4 and 5, the comments received during the stakeholder consultation on the first draft of the vision paper were discussed.
June 2 and 3, 2007: Meeting in Hagenthal-le-Bas, France
About
On June 2 and 3, 2007 a preparatory meeting ('vision camp') for a technology platform on organic farming took place. More than 20 participants discussed the issues and visions of such a platform. After the meeting a first draft of the so-alled vision paper was compiled.
The meeting was hosted by the EU Group of the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM EU Group) and organised by the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture FiBL. The event was co-funded under the German Federal Organic Farming Scheme BÖL.
Meeting documents
Documents from the meeting on June 2 and 3, 2007 can be downloaded at the document section of this website (Documents).
Participants
The following participants were present at the meeting, respresenting organic farming research and the organic sector.
- Basile, Salvatore, Italian Association of Organic Agriculture AIAB, Italy
- Dabbert, Stefan, University of Hohenheim, Germany
- David, Christophe, ISARA, Lyon, France
- Ditgens Birgit, Federal Agency for Food and Agriculture BLE, Bonn, Germany
- Finckh, Maria, University of Kassel, Witzenhausen, Germany
- Häring, Anna-Maria, University of Applied Sciences Eberswalde, Germany
- Kahl, Johannes, University of Kassel, Witzenhausen, Germany
- Koopmanns, Chris, Louis-Bolk-Institute, Driebergen, The Netherlands
- Lampkin, Nic, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK
- Lange, Stefan, Federal Agency for Food and Agriculture BLE, Bonn, Germany
- Lund, Vonne, National Veterinary Institute, Oslo, Norway
- Meldgaard, Mette, International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements IFOAM, Bonn, Germany
- Mikkelsen Camilla, IFOAM-EU-Group, Brussels, Belgium
- Nebel, Johannes, Farmer, Chairman of the organic advisory group for DG-Agri., Danish Research Centre of Organic Farming DARCOF
- Niggli, Urs, Research Institute of Organic Agriculture FiBL, Frick, Switzerland
- Padel, Susanne, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK
- Pinxterhuis, Nina, Wageningen University and Research Centre, Animal Sciences Group, Lelystadt, The Netherlands
- Schlüter Marco, International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements IFOAM, IFOAM EU-Group
- Schmid, Otto, Research Institute of Organic Agriculture FiBL, Frick, Switzerland
- Slabe, Anamaria, Institute of Sustainable Development, Slovenia
- Waffenschmid, Christian, Coop, Basel, Switzerland
- Willer, Helga, Research Institute of Organic Agriculture FiBL, Frick, Switzerland
- Woodward, Lawrence, The Organic Research Centre Elm Farm, Newbury, UK
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