Organic Farming Research Projects funded by the European Union

Under the European Union's research framework programmes, several organic farming projects have been funded (see list below).

Information on European projects is provided at the Cordis database as well as the project database at Agrinet, a website is managed by DG Research (E4 Unit, in charge of Agriculture, Forests , Fishing and Aquaculture).

Project list

>> 6. Framework Programme

>> 5. Framework Programme

>> 4.Framework Programme

>> Earlier Programmes

6. Framework Programme

Organic viticulture and wine-making: development of environment and consumer friendly technologies for organic wine quality improvement and scientifically based legislative framework (ORWINE)
Cristina Micheloni
Project Coordinator
c/o Italian Association of Organic Farming AIAB
Via Piave 14
00187 Roma, Italy
Tel. +39 06 45437485-6-7
Fax +39 06 45437469
>> Internet www.orwine.org
>> Info at www.organic-europe.net

Project Reference: 11716
Coordination of European Transnational Research in Organic Food and Farming(CORE Organic)
c/o Danish Research Centre for Organic Agriculture (DARCOF)
Dr. Erik Steen Kristensen
Foulum, P.O. Box 50
DK-8830 Tjele
Tel. +45 89 99 10 35
Fax +45 89 99 16 73
>>Project Homepage: http://www.coreorganic.org/
>>Entry in the Cordis Project Database

Development of criteria and procedures for the evaluation of the EU Action Plan for Organic Agriculture (ORGAP)
c/o Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL)
Otto Schmid
Ackerstrasse
CH-5070 Frick
Tel. +41 62 8657272
Fax +41 62 8657273
>>Project Homepage: http://www.orgap.org/
>>Entry in the Cordis Project Database
>>Organic Eprints

Opening channels of communication between Associated Candidate Countries and the EU in Ecological Farming (CHANNEL)
c/o Corvinus University
Business Unit Crop and Production Ecology
Prof. Dr. Laszlo Radics
Pf 53, 1118 Villányi út 29-35
HU- 1518 Budapest
Tel. +36 1 372 6235
Fax +36 1 371 6325
>>Project Homepage: http://www.channel.uni-corvinus.hu/content.php?content.9
>>Entry in the Cordis Project Database

Intercropping of cereals and grain legumes for increased production, weed control, improved product quality and prevention of N-losses in European organic farming systems (INTERCROP)
c/o Risø National Laboratory, Plant Research Department
Prof. Dr. Erik Steen Jensen
DK-4000, Roskilde
Tel. +45 46774108
Fax +45 46774260
>>Project Homepage: http://www.intercrop.dk/
>>Entry in the Cordis Database

QLK5-2002-02239
Seed Treatments for Organic Vegetable Production (STOVE)
Federal Biological Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry BBA
Dr. Eckhard Koch
Institute for Biological Control
Heinrichstr. 243
D- 64287 Darmstadt
>>Project Homepage: http://www.stove-project.net/index2.html
>>Entry in the Cordis Database

Replacement of Copper Fungicides in Organic Production of Grapevine and Apple in Europe (REPCO)
c/o Plant Research International (PRI)
Business Unit Crop and Production Ecology
Dr. Jürgen Köhl
Bornsesteeg 65
P.O. Box 16,
6700 Wageningen
The Netherlands
Tel. +31 317 47001
Fax +31 317 418094
>>Project Homepage: http://www.rep-co.nl/
>>Entry in the Cordis Database

Project Reference: 506358
Food from low input and organic production systems: Ensuring the safety and improving quality along the whole chain (QualityLowInputFood / QLIF)
c/o Tesco Centre for Organic Agriculture
University Newcastle upon Tyne
Prof. Dr. Carlo Leifert
King George VI Building
Newcastle upon Tyne
UK
>>Project Homepage: http://www.qlif.org/
>>Entry in the Cordis Database
>>Organic Eprints: http://orgprints.org/view/projects/eu_qlif.html

Organic Revision
Danish Research Centre for Organic Farming (DARCOF)
Dr. Erik Steen Kristensen
P.O. Box 50
Foulum
8830 Tjele
Denmark
>>Project Homepage: http://www.organic-revision.org/
>>Entry in the Cordis Database
>> Organic Eprints: http://orgprints.org/view/projects/eu_organicrevision.html
>> Brief info at Organic-Europe

5. Framework Programme

QLRT-2001-00917
Further Development of Organic Farming Policy in Europe, with Particular Emphasis on EU Enlargement (EU-CEEOFP)
c/o University of Wales
Aberystwyth: Institute of Rural Studies
Llanbadarn Fawr
SY23 3AL Aberystwyth Ceredigion
UK
Tel. +44 1970 624471
Fax +44 1970 611264
>>Project Homepage: http://www.irs.aber.ac.uk/EUCEEOFP/
>>Entry in the Cordis Database
>>Organic Eprints: http://orgprints.org/view/projects/eu-ceeofp.html

QLK5-CT-2002-02541
Sustaining animal health and food safety in organic farming SAFO
Danish Institute of Agricultural Sciences
Mette Vaarst
6 Kirstinebjergev 6
P.O. BOX 50
8830 Tjele
Denmark
>>Project Homepage: http://www.safonetwork.org/
>>Entry in the Cordis Database
>>Organic Eprints: http://orgprints.org/view/projects/eu-safo.html

QLRT-2001-02245
Recommendation for improved procedures for securing consumer oriented food safety and quality of certified organic products from plough to plate (Organic HACCP)
Danish Institute of Agricultural Sience
6 Kirstinebjergev 6
P.O. BOX 50
8830 Tjele
Denmark
>>Project Homepage: http://www.organichaccp.org/OrganicHACCP.asp
>>Entry in the Cordis Database

QLRT-2001-02565
Harmonised and Standardised procedures for evaluation of plant protection products, fertilizers and soil conditioners for use in organic agriculture (ORGANIC INPUTS EVALUATION)
Wissenschaftliche Koordination:
Forschungsinstitut für biologischen Landbau FiBL
Dr. Bernhard Speiser
Ackerstraße
5070 Frick
Switzerland
Tel. +41 62 865 72 43
Fax +41 62-865 72 73
>>Project Homepage: http://www.organicinputs.org/
>>Entry in the Cordis Database

QLRT-2001-02400
European Information System for Organic Markets (EISfOM)
c/o University of Wales
Aberystwyth: Institute of Rural Studies
Llanbadarn Fawr
SY23 3AL Aberystwyth Ceredigion
UK  
Tel. +44 1970 624471
Fax +44 1970 611264
>>Project Homepage: http://www.eisfom.org/
>>Entry in the Cordis Database
>>Project Publications in the Organic Eprints Database: http://orgprints.org/view/projects/eu-eisfom.html

QLK5-2000-01124
Organic Market Initiatives and Rural Development (OMIARD)
c/o University of Wales
Aberystwyth: Institute of Rural Studies
Dr. Peter Midmore
Llanbadarn Fawr
SY23 3AL Aberystwyth Ceredigion
UK
Tel. +44 1970 624471
Fax +44 1970 611264
>>Project Homepage: http://www.irs.aber.ac.uk/OMIaRD/
>>Entry in the Cordis Database

QLRT-1999-31112
Overcoming barriers to conversion to organic farming in the European Union through markets for conversion products (CONVERSION)
c/o The University of Reading
Dr. Spencer Henson
Reading
UK
Tel. +44 1189 316775
Fax +44 1189 756467
>>Entry in the Cordis Database

QLRT-1999-31065
Development of a systems approach for the management of late blight in EU organic potato production (Blight-Mop)
c/o Tesco Centre for Organic Agriculture
University Newcastle upon Tyne
Prof. Dr. Carlo Leifert
King George VI Building
Newcastle upon Tyne
UK
Tel. +44 191 2226908
Fax +44 191 2227811
>>Project Homepage: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/tcoa/producers/research/blightmop/
>>Entry in the Cordis Database
>>Project Publications in the Organic Eprints Database: http://orgprints.org/view/projects/eu-blight-mop.html

QLRT-1999-31418
Strategies of weed control in organic farming (WECOF)
c/o Institut für Organischen Landbau
Prof. Dr. Ulrich Köpke
Katzenburgweg 3
53115  Bonn
Germany
Tel. +49 228 735616
Fax +49 228 735617
>>Project Homepage: http://www.wecof.uni-bonn.de/
>>Entry in the Cordis Database

QLK1-1999-0098
Safe organic vegetables and vegetable products by reducing risk factors and sources of fungal contaminants throughout the production chain: the carrot - Alternaria model
c/o Dienst Landbouwkundig Onderzoek
Dr. Nic Hogenboom
Bornsesteeg 53
P.O. Box 59
6708 PD Wageningen
The Netherlands
>>Project Homepage: http://www.seedcentre.nl/Projects/
EU_SafeOrganicVegetables/safe_organic_vegetables.htm
>>Entry in the Cordis Database

QLK5-1999-40062
New strategies for sustainable production of brassica crops in integrated and organic systems
c/o United vegetables Ltd
Keith Harwood
Manor Road 10
PE20 1PL Kirton - Boston
UK
>>Entry in the Cordis Database

Fourth Framework Programme

FAIR-98-4405
Network for Animal Health and Welfare in Organic Agriculture (NAHWOA)
c/o Veterinary Epidemiology and Economics Research
Malla Hovi
PO Box 236
Earley Gate
RG6 6 Reading
UK  
Tel. +44 118 931 84
Fax +44 118 926 2431
>>Entry in the Cordis Database
>> Organic Eprint : http://orgprints.org/view/projects/eu-nahwoa.html

FAIR-96-1794
Effects of the CAP-reform and possible further developments on organic farming in the EU
c/o Institut für landwirtschaftliche Betriebslehre
Prof. Dr. Stephan Dabbert
70593 Stuttgart
Germany
Tel. +49 711 4593523
Fax +49 711 4592555
>>Project Homepage: http://www.uni-hohenheim.de/i3v/00217110/01376041.htm
>>Entry in the Cordis Database
>>Organic Eprints: http://orgprints.org/view/projects/eu-offcap.html

Earlier Programmes

AIR 0511
Advanced ecological farming systems (E.F.S.) based on best practices with organic farmers pilot groups
c/o Lab. d'ecologie des prairies
Prof. Dr. Alain Peeters
Crois du Sud 2 boite 5
1348 Louvain-la-neuve
Belgium
Tel. +32 10 473771
Fax +32 10 472428
>>Entry in the Cordis Database

AIR 576
Viable organic stockless systems
c/o Institut Supérieur d'Agriculture Rhône-Alpes ISARA; CEREF
Yvan Gautronneau
31 place Bellecour
69288 Lyon Cedex 02
France
Tel. +33 72325084
Fax +33 72325121
>>Entry in the Cordis Database

AIR 776
Organic livestock farming: nutritional, environmental and economic implications of conversion
c/o Teagasc, Johnstown castle research center
Johnstown, County Wexford
Ireland
Tel. +353 53 42888
Fax +353 53 42004
>>Entry in the Cordis Database

AIR 852
On-farm development and evaluation of organic farming systems: The role of livestock and agro-forestry
c/o Universität Kassel Witzenhausen
Fachgebiet Ökologischer Landbau
Prof. Dr. Peter von Fragstein
Nordbahnhofstraße 1 a
37213 Witzenhausen
Germany
Tel. +49 5542981-565
Fax +49 5542981-568
>>Entry in the Cordis Database

AIR 1210
The landscape-and-nature production capacity of organic/sustainable types of agriculture in the EC
c/o Wageningen University Department of Ecological Agriculture and Society
Haarweg 333
6709 RZ Wageningen
The Netherlands
Tel. +31 317 484448
Fax +31 8370 84995
>>Entry in the Cordis Database

AIR 1940
Elaboration of standards for site-specified fertilization systems in organic farming in Europe based on long-term field experiments
c/o  Institut für biologisch-dynamische Forschung e.V.
Dr. Joachim Raupp
Brandschneise 5
64295  Darmstadt
Germany
Tel. +49 6155 84210
Fax +49 6155 842125
>>Entry in the Cordis Database

AIR 32143
The European Network for Scientific Research Coordination in Organic Farming ENOF
c/o Laboratory of Entomology and Environmental Analysis, LEEAM-Agroecology
Prof. Dr. Juan Isart
Jordi Girona 18-26
08034 Barcelona
Spain
Tel. +34 93 400-6100
Fax +34 93 2045904
>>Project Homepage: http://www.cid.csic.es/enof/
>>Entry in the Cordis Database

AIR 2135
Development of a strategy for co-operation and optimal documentation and supply of literature on ecological agriculture (DOCEA)
c/o Library Wageningen Agricultural University
Marja Duizendstraal
P.O. Box 9100
6700  Wageningen
Netherlands
Fax +31 317 484995

CAMAR 003
Study of the potential and the limits of systems and techniques of integrated and alternative agriculture
c/o Stichting proefstation voor de akkerbouw en de groenteteelt in de vollegrond
Dr. Frank Wijnands
Edelhertweg 1
8200 AK Lelystad
The Netherlands
Tel.  +31 320291111
Fax +31 320230479
>>Entry in the Cordis Database

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