Organic farming research and development has the objective of improving the organic system. A research project should lead to optimised production consistent with organic standards. Organic production has stronger growth potential because of agricultural research. The multiplier effect of research tills and fertilizes the soil of technology influencing earth friendly agriculture; thereby, increasing our "Organic Footprint". This is one of many important activities that lead to a healthier global ecology. The following content is periodically updated so check back for more information on organic research.
Articles On Organic Research:
ICROFS news November 2010 (no. 4) Contents: - 59 CORE Organic pre-proposals - Improving wheat production using nitrogen - 3rd ISOFAR conference: New deadline: 31.12.2010 Job vacancy at ICROFS ICROFS is looking for an academic employee to coordinate and further develop the open access archive, Organic Eprints, and participate in information and research communication activities. Read more about the position, quslifications and application form [Application deadline is July 19 2010 at noon] News from ICROFS Articles Brief News Follow ICROFS' activities on Twitter You can now learn "what's happening" in ICROFS on Twitter. Just click the logo, join Twitter and stay connected with us. Market-driven development of organic high value chains Read the new fact sheet: ICROFS news February issue: Articles: Brief News & events include: ICROFS news contents: Job vacancy at ICROFS Read more at www.icrofs.org/job
- Organic RDD is in place
- ICROFS coordinates research in 3 African countries
- Communicating 'ethical' attributes of organic food
- Markets and institutional capacity
- A glance at the development of the organic sector in Nigeria
- Organic bread-wheat in New England, USA
- New version of Organic.Edunet
- FQH 2011; NJF 2011; CERTCOST workshop at BioFach and in Brussels (on preventing fraud)
- CORE Organic II is set into motion
- The next Danish research programme, Organic RD
- ICROFS' chairman speaks at international ATV meeting in Copenhagen
- ICROFS has become partner in a new project on research repositories, named VOA3R
- Public organic food procurement for youth in four European countries
- Cattle trampling reduces the risk of nitrate leaching in organic dairy rotation
- Horse bean, pea and rape protein and flax seed oil in feed for organic trout
- Cows fed vitamin-rich feed produce vitamin-rich milk
- Sustainable Foods Summit: Building sustainable supplpt networks
- FQH 2011 First announcement
- Organic Horticulture (28th IHC): Productivity and sustainability
- 1st UNAAB International Summer School on Organic Agriculture
Agriculture is the basis for millions of livelihoods and improvement of the agricultural sector is a prerequisite for development of many African countries. ICROFS has produced a fact sheet on how organic agriculture contributes to economic development in Africa.
News from ICROFS:
- ØkoForskPLUS: Next call is under preparation
- CORE Organic II kick-off meeting in April
- CERTCOST workshop at BioFach
- New organic EU logo
- PhD defense: Meta-analysis of variety mixtures
- Strip cropping system for sustainable food and energy producion
- Organic farming systems benefit biodiversity and natural pest regulation in white cabbage
- Organic food and farming: A pro-poor model for smallholder inclusion in developing countries
- Organic Agriculture: The new journal calls for papers
- NJF seminar: Climate Change and Agricultural Production in the Baltic Sea Region
- Call for review articles: Book series - Sustainable Agriculture
- Organic Horticulture (28th IHC): Productivity and sustainability
- International Conference on Human Capital for Sustainable Economics
- 1st UNAAB International Summer School on Organic Agriculture
- International workshop and board meeting in China
- Greenhouse gas emissions from cultivation of energy crops
- Nitrate leaching from silage maize
- Organic farming effects on clay dispersion in carbon-exhausted soils
- Ecology and Farming: Research Special Edition
- Brief news on congresses, publications, and fairs
ICROFS is looking for an academic employee to coordinate European transnational research in organic agriculture and food under the ERA-net CORE Organic II.
The main tasks of the CORE Organic assistant coordinator include communicating with partners of CORE Organic/European Commission, planning and organising meetings, liaising with the EU Commission member states and other stakeholders, overseeing maintenance of the open access database Organic Eprints, and organising joint transnational calls for research projects. Deadline for applications is November 15, 2009.
