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The TP Organics’ Science Day at Biofach, World’s Leading Trade Fair for Organic Food, will take place from 10am to 3pm on February 15 in Room Oslo, NCC Ost. Participation in the Science Day is free, but registration for lunch is required. Register...

On 16 February 2018, the 6th Science Day will take place at BIOFACH, the World Organic Trade Fair, in Nuremberg, Germany.

The Organic World Congress 2017 will be held in India from November 9 to 11, 2017. The Scientific Track of the Organic World Congress is organized jointly by the International Society of Organic Agriculture Research ISOFAR (www.isofar.org), ...

On November 8, 2017, the conference "Accelerating innovation - the role of science, policy and practice" will take place as a preconference of the Organic World Congress in Dehli, India. The pre-conference is organized by the Research Institute of...

Paper submission extended till the end of March!

This Scientific Session invites you to contribute with your experience in organic farming in relation to soil changes (biota, water, mineral and organic matter, erosion), soil productivity, plant protection, food quality or socio-economic aspects....

From 7 March to 10 March 2017, the 14th Scientific Conference on Organic Farming (Wissenschaftstagung Ökologischer Landbau) will be held on the Freising-Weihenstephan campus, Germany. The aim of the conference is to rethink organic farming, to take...

On February 17, 2017, the fifth Science Day will take place at BIOFACH, the World Organic Trade Fair, in Nuremberg, Germany. It is a joint event of TIPI, the Technology Innovation Platform of IFOAM - Organics International, and TP Organics, the...

The session on global organic farming and market trends will take place place from 4 pm to 4.45 pm, on February 15, 2017 at BIOFACH, NürnbergMesse, Nürnberg, Germany.

Following the successful launch of the Organic Innovation Days in 2015, the second edition of Organic Innovation Days will take place in Brussels on 6 December 2016. Registration is free and open until 21 of November 2016. Places are limited.

On the...

The Organic Farming Innovation Award (OFIA) is the prize of the Organic Movement to highlight organic innovations of farmers, scientists, extension agents and other practitioners. The 4th summit will be held on 11 November 2016, during Biofach India...

The International Scientific Conference on Research and Innovation in Organic Agriculture will take place 1 November 2016 in Isfahan, Iran. The event is hosted by Azad University and supported by the International Society of Organic Agriculture...

"Sharing research that grows organic" is the theme of the second Canadian Organic Science Conference. The event consists of two days of conference presentations (in English) and a field day with visits to Quebec's organic farms.

World-renowned...

On May 27, 2016, a Science Day will take place at BIOFACH China in Shanghai. It is organized by TIPI - the Technology Innovation Platform of IFOAM - Organics International ,the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology (IGDB) at the Chinese...

The 3rd International Symposium on Organic Greenhouse Horticulture will be held in Turkey from April 10 to 14, 2016. The Symposium will have both a scientific program and a technical program presented in parallel as well as one day field tour during...

The SOLID final conference will focus on the challenges that organic and low input dairy systems face and how the EU-funded project Sustainable Organic and Low Input Dairying (SOLID) has worked for the last 5 years to develop solutions to improve the...

“Ecofruit” is the continuation of the 16 previous meetings. It aims to bring together European researchers and consultants working on topics related to organic fruit growing. “Ecofruit” gives an opportunity to communicate and discuss latest results...

A free webinar will occur 11 February 2016 for more information about NIFA's Organic Agriculture Research and Extension Initiative (OREI) and Organic Transitions (ORG) Programme.

To participate by phone:

• Call (US and Canada): (866) 740-1260
• Access...

The session on global organic farming and market trends will take place place from 4.30 pm to 5.45 pm, on February 10, 2016, in Room Istanbul (NCC East) at BIOFACH, NürnbergMesse, Nürnberg, Germany.

The "Long-term strategy for European agricultural research and innovation by 2020 and beyond" is being developed by the  Directorate General (DG) Agriculture and Rural Development of the European Commission, and it will serve to set the prior ities...

The Organic Farming Research Foundation (OFRF) and the Kearney Agricultural Research and Extension (KARE) Center invite the submission of research papers for presentation at the 2016 Organic Agriculture Research Symposium (OARS), taking place January...

Achieving Scocial and Economics Development through Ecological and Organic Agricultural Alternatives

On September 2 and 3, 2015, the National Conference on Organic Animal, Poultry and Aquatic Products in Rasht, Iran.

More information

organicapap(at)gmail.com

www.iscconferences.com/organic

Register now for the Eucarpia-COBRA-ECO-PB event in Munich, Germany in June.

The European Commission organised the conference "Organic production, Research and Innovation: setting priorities for the future", as foreseen in the Action Plan on organic food and farming , adopted by the Commission on 24 March 2014. This...

The scientific session SSS10.1 “Organic farming and soil management” will be held at the European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2015 (www.EGU2015.org). Studies related to and focusing on the following topics are considered: Soil science...

Call for paper and Poster

13th Scientific Conference on Organic Agriculture in the German-speaking countries

At BIOFACH 2015 (www.biofach.de), the 3rd Science day will take place. The programme is now available.

Like in the past, it will be a joint event by TIPI, the Technology Innovation Platform of the International Federation of Organic Agriculture...

At the session "The European market for organic food", partners of the  OrganicDataNetwork project will present the latest data on selected European markets.

Time: February 12, 2015, 2 to 2.45 pm
Venure: BIOFACH Congress, NürnbergMesse, Room...

On November 11, 2014, the meeting "Countering Climate Change with Organic Agriculture" is taking place in Brussels. It is organized by the European Union Group of the Internatiional Fedration of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM EU Group) and the...

In the morning of October 15, the third day of the Organic World Congress (www.OWC2014.org) in Istanbul, Turkey, a workshop of the OrganicDatanetwork will take place.

The workshop is entitled "Organic market data collection and publication...

The session of the TILMAN-ORG project at the Organic World Congress will take place on Monday, the 13th of October 2014 at the ICC in Istanbul.

Oral presentations (4.30 to 6. pm) will include

• Diversity of Conservation Agriculture Practices Among...

The 65th Annual Meeting of the Europeran Federation of Animal Sciences (EAAP) will take place from August 25-29, 2014 in Copenhagen, Denmark. The deadline for the submission of abstracts is March 1, 2014.

The International Symposium "Organic Agriculture: clues for weed prevention and control" will be held in Vigo, July 2014.

This year the TP Organics Stakeholder Forum is dedicated to the revision of TP Organics' Strategic Research Agenda. The new version will list the research and innovation goals for organic until 2020.

Experts started writing in January 2014. This...

Die wissenschaftliche Tagung findet am 6. und 7. Juni 2014 in Bonn statt. Ein denkwürdiges Datum, denn vor exakt neun Jahrzehnten gab Rudolf Steiner in Koberwitz mit seinen Vorträgen zum Gedeihen der Landwirtschaft die Impulse, die zur...

The "2nd International Conference on Trade and Market Development of Organic Products" (www.iranorganic.org) will be held on May 11th in Tehran, Iran, hosted by the Iran Organic Association.

Dr. M. Reza Ardakani, the Executive Manager of the...

The fourth symposium of the LowInputBreeds project (www.lowinputbreeds.org) will take place in Newcastle, UK, from April 14 to 16, 2014. At this symposium the results of the LowInputBreeds project, which comes to an end in April 2014, will be...

First announcement for free Workshops at Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK

Programme outline now available.

The International DAAD Alumni Winter School “Quality management along organic agri-value chains in developing countries – production, post-harvest technology, processing, marketing and trade” is held February, 3rd 2014 (arrival date) to February 11th...

The title of the 2014 Organic Producers' Conference is "Intensive Sustainability or Sustainable Intensification - which way forward for organic farming?". The conference is regularily organised by the Oranic Research Centre Elm Farm. ORC’s annual...

The international conference on organic agriculture in the Mediterranean will be held from the 2nd to 4th of December in Agadir, Morocco. A further important topic of the conference is distinguishing the quality of agricultural products by guarantees...

Call for papers

International Conference at Aarhus University, Denmark

The 4th Scientific Conference on Organic Agriculture in Central and Eastern Europe will be held 9-13th October 2013 in Hungary.

La Sociedad Científica Latinoamericana de Agroecología  SOCLA,  fue creada para promover la reflexión, discusión e intercambio científico sobre agroecología entre investigadores, docentes y promotores de la región. SOCLA es parte del movimiento...

The third symposium of the LowInputBreeds project will take place on August 28, 2013 in Nantes, France.

On August 25, 2013 an open day will take place at FiBL in Frick, Switzerland. FiBL is one of major organic research institutes in the world.

The 461th Seminar of the Nordic Association of Agricultural Scientists will take place August 21-23, 2012 in Denmark. Papers can be submitted by February 15, 2013.

The Asian Network For Sustainable Organic Farming Technology (ANSOFT) will hold a workshop on 20-23 August 2013 in Dhaka, the capital city of Bangla Desh.

ANSOFT is a network with 11 member countries: Bangladesh, Cambodia, Indonesia, Korea, Laos,...

The Prince of Wales has invited the Organic Research Centre (ORC), UK, to organise the 2013 Food and Farming Summer School. Initiated in 2007 at Duchy Home Farm, Tetbury, the summer school is inspired by The Prince of Wales’s leadership and keen...

From July 1 to 5 2013, the proponents of the OSEA II project* of the International Federation of Organic Agriculture MOvements (IFOAM) in partnership with the Tanzania Organic Agriculture Movement (TOAM) is organizing in Dar es Salaam the third East...

Conference organized by the European Network of Scientists for Social and Environmental Responsibility (ENSSER)

The European Technology Platform Organics (TP Organics) is pleased to invite interested stakeholders to the upcoming stakeholder forum which will take place on 25 June 2013 in Brussels.

The one-day event will serve as a discussion forum to set the...

On June 12th and 13th 2013 a scientific workshop on organic pig production will take place in Hovborg in Denmark. The newest results from five research projects will be presented at the workshop.

From May 14 to 16, 2013 the Symposium "Crop Protection Management in Mediterranean Organic Agriculture" will take place in Sousse, Tunisia. It is jointly organised by the International Society of Organic Agricultural Research (ISOFAR), the...

The conference "Organic Agricultural Research and Training in West Africa: Presence, Challenges and Prospects" will take place from March 18-22, 2013 at Njala University, Njala, Sierra Leone.

The Science Day is held at the Nürnberg Messe, with speakers, workshops and the official launch of a new technology and innovation platform.

On February 13, 2013 the annual session on the European market for organic food will take place at the BioFach Congress. This year it is organized by the European-funded research project OrganicDataNetwork.

The session Organic Market Data Networks is organised by the European-funded SOLINSA project, which project aims to identify barriers to the development of Learning and Innovation Networks for sustainable agriculture (LINSA).

The 7th UK Organic Producers Conference, organized by the Organic Research Centre - Elm Farm, will be held on January 22 and 23, 2013 in Birmingham.

To this conference, the second project meeting of the CORE Organic II project "Reduced tillage and...

The Sustainability Camp is taking place November 23-26, 2012, at the Head Office of the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM), Bonn, Germany.

Agro-Ecological Innovation is a new network for academics and practitioners in the agro-ecological field from across the agricultural spectrum, and throughout the European Union (EU), the EU candidate countries and the countries of the European Free...

2nd ISOFAR International Symposium on Asian Organic Agriculture will cover a wide range of topics related to organic farming.

Building on the first conference of the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements in the US in 2006, farmers and scientists will once again have the opportunity to exchange information and build new partnerships at the 2nd IFOAM...

The first international conference on organic rice production systems is open to researchers and to all stakeholders in the production chain: rice growers, professional organisations and their partners, collection, transformation and...

The 2nd International Summer School Programme in Organic Agriculture to take place in Nigeria in July 2012 represents an excellent opportunity to learn about tropical organic agriculture in a West African setting, to explore possible research...

The international conference "Biodiversity Indicators for European Farming Systems" will take place in Engelberg / Lucerne on 21 and 22 June 2012. Farmland biodiversity researchers from 15 countries will present the results of the EU FP7 research...

The second LowInputBreeds symposium will take place May 15-18, 2012 in Tunis.

For more information see here.

The first international workshop of the Italian Organic Agriculture Research Group (GRAB-IT) entiteld "Organic farming: a sustainable model for transition in the Mediterranean" will take place in Ancona, Italy, on May 10 and 11.

The Second World Conference on Organic Beekeeping will be held in San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico, from 19 to 25 March 2012. The aim of this event is to exchange field and scientific experiences on organic beekeeping, to achieve through...

The first meeting of the OrganicDataNetwork project took place on March 8 and 9, 2012 in Ancona Italy.

A report about that meeting is availabe at the Organic-Market.info website.

Link

Organic-Market.info: Launch of the OrganicDataNetwork

From March 6-13, 2012, the international workshop "Curriculum Development for Postgraduate Studies in Organic Agriculture" is taking place at the Federal University ffo Agriculture in Abeokuta, Nigeria.

It is organized by the West African Network...

The Canadian Organic Science Conference is  held on February 21-23, 2012 in  Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

The Organic Agriculture Centre of Canada, Organic Federation of Canada, and University of Manitoba are pleased to present the Canadian Organic...

Working together to strengthen organic food and farming in the next EU framework programme

The Conference "Ecological Organic Agriculture – The agricultural alternative for Africa" takes place November 15–16, 2011 at the UNEP Headquarters in Nairobi/Kenya.

The 3rd Scientific Conference "New findings in organic farming research and their possible use for Central and Eastern Europe” is held 14-15 November 2011 Prague, the Czech Republic.

On November 7 and 8, 2011, the first National Congress of the  Italian Network for Research in Organic Farming RIRAB (www.rirab.it) will take place in Catania / Italy. With this conference, RIRAB intends to promote scientific research and...

The seminar "Agriculture in times of climate change – organic farming approaches to face the challenge" will take place in Brussels on October 18.

The sixth Latin American and Caribbean Meeting of Ecological Agriculture (ELAO) entiled "Benefits and perspectives of organic family agriculture" will be held on 13–17 October 2011, in Cali, Colombia.

Following the tradition of Adelaide 2005 and Modena 2008, the Third Scientific Conference of the International Society of Organic Agriculture Research ISOFAR will again be part of the IFOAM Organic World Congress (OWC).

From 28 September to 1...

The 3rd Portugese Colloquium on Organic Horticulture and the 1st Portugese Colloqium on Organic Animal Production will take place in Braga (Northwest Portugal) from September 22 to 24, 2011.

On September 21 and 22, 2011, the first Central American Organic Congress and Fair (Primer Congreso Centroamericano de Agricultura Orgánica y a la Primera Feria Centroamericana de Productos Orgánicos e Insumos para la Agricultura Orgánica) is taking...

The Second European Workshop on Organic Seed Regulation of the European Consortium for Organic Plant Breeding takes place September 21 and 22, 2011 at the Organic Research Centre, Elm Farm, Hamstead Marshall near Newbur, UK.

The International Conference "Organic Agriculture and Agro-Eco tourism in the Mediterranean" is held 16 to 18 September 2011 Zakynthos, Greece. It is organized by by the Mediterranean Group of the International Federation of Organic Agriculture...

The 16th Symposium of the European Grassland Federation will take place August 28-31, 2011. Papers can be submitted until October 31, 2010. The conference is titled “Grassland farming and land management in mountainous regions,” and one of the...

The Government of the Indian State of Bihar in association with the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) - Research Complex for Eastern Region, Patna, India, is organiszing a two-day international conference on organic agriculture.

The Conference will focus on the state of the art in research on organic food quality and health in the following areas:

• Quality and safety of organic plant and animal products
• Impact of processing on organic quality and safety
• Standardization of...

The French Institute of Organic Agriculture ITAB (www.itab.asso.fr) is organizing this two-day seminar (in French) to discuss future research priorities.

Further information

• ITAB.Asso.fr: Programme of the Seminar

How do we understand the ethical responsibility of farming to the organic principles? What dilemmas do we meet in practice? These and many other questions will be discussed at the SOAR seminar "Ethics and our research in organic agriculture, food and...

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) sponsored a conference on March 16-18, 2011 in Washington DC to examine findings from research on organic farming systems, including many longstanding projects. The audience included researchers,...

The United Stated Department of Agriculture (USDA) sponsored March 16-18, 2011  in Washington, DC, to examine findings from research on organic farming systems.  Attendees include researchers, policymakers, farmers, ranchers, and others interested in...

The first LowInputBreeds Symposium  on Ethical Consideration in Livestock Breeding is organised by the EU-project LowInputBreeds in cooperation with the European Consortium for Organic Animal Breeding ECO-AB.

Ethical considerations are the focus of...

The 11th Scientific Conference on Organic Agriculture in the German speaking countries took place March 15-18, 2011 in Giessen, Germany.

It was organized jointly by the University of Giessen, the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture FiBL...

The Organic Research Centre’s 2011 Organic Producer Conference will be held from 17-18th January at the Four Pillars Hotel, Cotswold Water Park, near Cirencester, in the UK.

The 2nd Conference of the "Organic and Low-Input Agriculture" Section of EUCARPIA is taking place in Paris from December 1-3, 2010.

The third international expert workshop of the Round Table on Organic Agriculture and Climate Change (RTOACC, www.organicandclimate.org) will be held in Rome on November 22, 2010.

The focus of the workshop will be to finalize activities of 2010 and...

The Working Group “Organic Greenhouse Horticulture” organizes a conference on the 11-14 October 2010, in Bleiswijk, The Netherlands. The conference will feature 4 days of presentations and workshop discussions on organic greenhouse horticulture, and...

The Spanish Society for Organic Farming SEAE will organise its 9th Scientific Congress on organic farming in Lleida, the agricultural capital of Catalonia, October 6 to 9, 2010, to be held at the University of Lleida (UDL).

SEAE has been organising...

An expert workshop on "Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) - methods, models, and databases with focus on GHG emissions and sequestration potential of organic farming systems and organic food" is taking place on September 21, 2010 in Bari, Italy.

The eContentplus Organic.Edunet project is organizingthe EuropeanConferenceon IT-Enhanced Organic, Agro-Ecological and Environmental Education, which will be held on the 16^th and 17^th of September 2010 in Budapest, Hungary.

The Organic.Edunet...

The Organic.Edunet project (Life Long Learning Programme) is organizing an autumn school on "Enhancing Environmental and Ecological Awareness and Education in Schools: Training Teachers on the Use of Web2.0 tools and Open Educational Resources". ...

The Organic Agriculture Project in Tertiary Institutions in Nigeria OAPTIN was founded in 2004 in response to the global quest for the development of holistsic and sustainable agricultural systems. In response to demand, the University of...

The 5th Organic Meeting and Producers' Fair of Latin America and the Caribbean will take place at the University of La Molina in Lima, Peru, from September 5-9, 2010.

From August 22 to 27, 2009, the 28th International Horticultural Congress will take pace in Lisbom, Portugal, under the patronage of the International Horticultural Society ISHS. A symposium on organic horticulture will be held.

Focus on Effect, Vulnerability and Adaptation.

The International Conference on Organic Farming (ICOF) is organised by the College of Agricultural Studies (CAS) in Khartoum, Sudan.

The symposium ’Soil Fertility and Crop Nutrition Management in Mediterranean Organic Agriculture’ takes place from March 23 to 25, 2010, in Sousse, Tunisia. Abstracts can be submitted by January 1, 2010.

Ecofruit aims to bring together European researchers and consultants working on topics related to organic fruit growing. Ecofruit gives an opportunity to communicate and discuss latest results related to organic fruit growing.

Results of the European QLIF project and outlook on the new projects NUE-CROPS and LowInputBreeds will be presented at this session of the BioFach Congress.

2nd Congress of the European Union Group of the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements IFOAM

A workshop of the European Cooperation in Science and Technology COST on low-input and organic agriculture will take place on November 30, 2009, in Brussels.

On October 23, an international meeting of researchers in organic vegetable production will take place, in Auweiler Germany. Organic vegetable production is booming – since 2005 double digit growth in sales has been achieved. Research activities are...

The Conference 'Organic Cooperation and Research in the Mediterranean' is held by the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Bari MAIB on October 14 and 15, 2009, in Bari.

TheFourth Organic Meeting of Latin America and Caribbean will be held from October 12 to 16 2009 in Salinitas, El Salvador.

The meeting will give participants the opportunity to share experiences on production and participative research,...

The next technical conference of the Spanish Society of Organic Agriculture SEAE will take place in Mallorca, Spain, from September 16-19, 2009. Papers can be submitted by May 20, 2009.

From August 25-28, 2009, the 1st International IFOAM Conference Organic Animal and Plant Breeding will take place in Santa Fe, New Mexico/USA.

Organic breeding includes efforts of both professional companies involved in the organic market, as well...

From August 25-27, 2009 the international scientific conference 'Fostering healthy food systems through organic agriculture – focus on Nordic-Baltic region' will take place in Tartu, Estonia.

The conference constitutes Seminar 422 of the Nordic...

The 9th Bioacademy, titled 'Organic Farming - A Response to Economic and Environmental Challenges' will be held on 24th – 26th June 2009, in Lednice, Czech Republic. Papers can be submitted until April 20, 2009. Like in 2008, a scientific conference...

The Nordic Organic Conference 'Towards increased sustainability in the food supply chain ' will take place from May 18-20, 2009, in Gothenburg, Sweden. The aim of the Nordic Organic Conference NOC is to create a Nordic forum with the focus on organic...

The 5th annual congress of the European project Quality Low Input Food QLIF will be organized in conjunction with the 3rd International Congress on Food and Nutrition held April 22 to 25, 2009 in Antalya, Turkey. It is organised by TÜBİTAK, the...

ORWINE final results presented to the organic and wine sectors

10. Wissenschaftstagung Ökologischer Landbau. Wege - Werte - Wirkungen. Biolandbau im Spannungsfeld zwischen Klimarwandel, Markt und Ernährungssicherung

The 5th International Scientific Conference on sustainable farming systems ECOMIT was held November 5 to 7, 2008 in Pieštany, Slovakia. The aim of the conference was to present and promote research results and experiences in the field of sustainable...

From 18 to 20 June 2008 the second conference of the International Society of Agriculture Research was held in Modena, Italy, in conjunction with the 16th IFOAM Organic World Congress OWC. The proceedings contain 380 papers related to all aspects of...