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European Organic Farming Research
About
Relevant documents and links
About
Organic farming research is organised
differently in the European countries. Until the 1980s it was mainly
carried out by private research institutes, which have been the driving
force for the development of organic farming research since the 1920s.
In the 1980s the first universities took organic farming on their curricula,
in the 1990s the first EU-funded projects on organic farming contributed
to a better collaboration of researchers on organic farming on a European
level, and the first state research institutes became active.
Today's high political and societal acceptance and interest in organic
farming research is reflected in the fact that the organic farming research
is substantially funded by the European Union and that the European
action plan for organic food and farming stresses the importance of organic farming research.
Many national action plans include special programs for organic farming research. For instance in Germany the Federal
Organic Farming Scheme BOEL has a dedicated research part, and in Denmark the Danish
Research Center for Organic Farming DARCOF, now International Centre for Research in Organic Food Systems ICROFS ) has been running since 1996.
At the state research
institutions organic farming is getting increasing attention in many
countries, for instance In France the National
Agricultural Research Institute INRA now has an organic farming
co-ordination group (Comité
Interne Agriculture Biologique CIAB). The German
Federal Agricultural Research Institute FAL has one research
institute dedicated to organic farming research.
 Since the mid 1990s several organic farming research projects have been funded under the framework programmes of the European Commission.
The European Commission has also organised several seminars on organic farming research in Europe and at these seminars the situation of organic farming research was documented extensively for the first time.
 With the ERA Net project CORE Organic cooperation among funders of research programmes has increased, and detailed country reports about the participating countries are available from this project. CORE Organic uses the Organic Eprints archive to document organic farming research in Europe. In recent years this archive has developed as a major tool for communication about organic farming in Europe, and it holds more than 6000 entries.
International cooperation in organic farming research takes place in the framework of the International Society of Organic Farming Research ISOFAR.
Recently several conferences have taken place documenting the current status of European organic farming research.
Relevant documents and links
Information resources & links
European organic farming projects
Documents and links of DG Research
IFOAM EU Group
Papers & documents providing an overview of organic farming research in Europe
- Burioni., Massimo (2002): Consolidated report summarising individual contributions of the Seminar on Organic Farming Research in Europe “How to facilitate the development of transnational co-operation in research in Organic Farming by member and associated states” Brussels, 24-25 September 2002. European Commission, Research Directorate General, Brussels.
- European Commission, DG Research (2005) Organic Food and Farming Research in Europe.European Commission, Research Directorate General, Brussels.
- Lampkin, N.; Foster, C.; Padel, S. und Midmore, P. (1999) The Policy and Regulatory Environment for Organic Farming in Europe.Chapter 9: Research. Organic Farming in Europe: Economics and Policy Vol. 1. Universität Hohenheim, Stuttgart - Hohenheim.
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Niggli, Urs and Willer, Helga (2001) Stimulating the potential for innovation in organic farming by research. Published in Danish Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, (Eds). Organic Food and farming - Towards Partnership and Action in Europe, 10 - 11 MAY 2001, COPENHAGEN, Denmark, page pp. 194-199. Danish Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Copenhagen
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Slabe, Anamarija (rapporteur) (2004): Consolidated Report on Second seminar on “Organic Food and Farming research in Europe” How to improve trans-national cooperation November 26th 2004 Conference Centre Albert Borschette (CCAB), room 2C. European Commission, Research Directorate General, Brussels
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Zanoli, R., (ed.) Krell, R., (EWds) : Research methodologies in organic farming. Proceedings (English). In: REU Technical Series (FAO), no. 58 ; SREN Workshop on Research Methodologies in Organic Farming, 1, Frick (Switzerland),30 Sep - 3 Oct 1998 / FAO, Rome (Italy). Regional Office for Europe; Research Inst. of Organic Agriculture, Frick (Switzerland) , 1999 , 177 p.
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