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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 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
Key information resources
& links
European organic farming projects
Relevant recent events
Documents and links of DG Research
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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Zanoli, R., (ed.) Krell, R.,
(Eds) : 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.
© Research Institute of Organic
Agriculture FIBL, Forschungsinstitut für biologischen Landbau,
2006. All rights reserved
URL http://www.organic-europe.net
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02.09.2009
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