Newsletter from Danish Research Centre for Organic Farming • June 2005 • No. 2

Brief News

Joint Organic Congress 2006 - Organic Farming and European Rural Development

In May 2006 - for the first time ever - researchers from virtually all EU funded research projects in organic food and farming will join the same congress to present their results for organic producers, processors, and others interested in an overall sustainable development in Europe.

The event will take place on 30 – 31 May 2006 in Odense Denmark, and it will be held in collaboration with the biannual Danish Organic Congress.

More information can be found at www.organic-congress.org and in the recent press release (pdf).

Newsletter to enhance European cooperation on research in organic farming

In recent years several European countries has initiated research programmes in organic food and farming. To enhance the cooperation between the national research programmes an EU project with the title Core Organic has been started. One of the objectives of CORE Organic is to facilitate the access to information on the national research programmes.

To accomplish this task CORE Organic issues an electronic newsletter. The first newsletter deals with issues as:

  • What are the trends in organic farming research in the Netherlands?
  • How is organic research organised in Norway?
  • What are the research priorities in Great Britain?
  • What is the research recommendation on the EU-regulation on organic feed?

The newsletter can be accesses through the project homepage www.coreorganic.org. Subscription is free of charge.

100 percent organic feeding is possible

One of the objectives of the EU project Organic Revision is to provide more knowledge on how to achieve 100 percent organic rations in diets for livestock.

In two preliminary reports the project researchers has investigated the possibilities and limitations for 100 percent organic feeding. And allthough the issue is comprehensive and complex, the message is clear - it is possible. Read the article on the Organic Revision homepage.

Towards health and quality in organic foods

The recent issue of the QLIF newsletter are summarizing more than 60 other scientific presentations given at the international congress on Organic Farming, Food Quality and Human Health held in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK earlier this year.

The newsletter can be accesses through the project homepage www.qlif.org. Subscription is free of charge.

Leaflets with conclusions from Organic HACCP

Organic HACCP is the acronym of the EU FP5 Concerted action "Recommendations for improved procedures for securing consumer oriented food safety and quality of certified organic foods from plough to plate".

The Organic HACCP project has reviewed studies of consumer concerns and preferences in relation to organic production systems and collected information about typical production chains for seven commodities in regions across Europe. The information has been analysed using methods developed for Hazard Analysis by Critical Control Points (HACCP).

The conclusions from the Organic HACCP project are presented as a series of leaflets. These are available in English and will also be available in other languages. The leaflets can be downloaded for free. A brief summary of the leaflets are presented on the QLIF homepage.

Workshop on European Information System for Organic Markets

EISFOM, the European Information System for Organic Markets, hold it´s second workshop on November 10th and 11th (2005) in Brussels. The aim of the conference is to consult with national an international agencies and stakeholders so that full support of the EISFOM propsoals, to be ready by September 2005, can be achieved.

Programme and registration details will be available at the EISFOM website soon.

Programme for ISOFAR conference on organic agriculture

The programme of the international scientific conference on organic agriculture "Researching Sustainable Systems" is now available and can be viewed at the conference website. More than 160 papers and posters have been submitted for presentation at this conference, that will be held in Adelaide 21 -23 September 2005.