13439: Vision for an Organic Food and Farming Research Agenda 2025. Food, Fairness and Ecology [2nd draft, 26 March, 2008]

Niggli, Urs; Slabe, Anamarija; Schmid, Otto; Halberg, Niels and Schlüter, Marco (2008) Vision for an Organic Food and Farming Research Agenda 2025. Food, Fairness and Ecology [2nd draft, 26 March, 2008]. Report, European Union Group, International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements, IFOAM EU Group, Brussels and International Society of Organic Agriculture Research (ISOFAR), Bonn, Germany.

Summary

The current re-drafted 2nd version of the research vision is a result of the received input and will be open for an electronic consultation which started on March 26 2008 and will end on April 25, 2008. A further elaborated version will be discussed at the EU stakeholder forum in May.
Parallel to this process, a Technology Platform focussing on sustainable food systems and public goods titled ‘Food, Fairness and Ecology” will be established. In addition to the IFOAM EU Group and ISOFAR, various other organisations have already committed themselves to the TP: European Environmental Bureau [EEB], the European Federation of Food, Agriculture and Tourism Trade Unions [EFFAT], the European Council of Young Farmers[CEJA] and the Foundation for Future Farming. Currently, discussions with further interested organisations are underway. The participation of the industry (processing and trade companies, machine industry) will be directly targeted.
The secretariat of the Technology Platform will be hosted at the IFOAM EU Group office in Brussels. The platform will have an official framework, a work structure and work flow.
Members of the organic agriculture movement, the scientific community and the wider civil society will be asked to contribute as volunteers to the work of the TP. A research concept and a research action plan will be the final outcome of this ambitious endeavour. The platform will be officially launched in May 2008.
The Technology Platform will bundle the research priorities which have to be communicated directly to the EU institutions. It will showcase the huge innovation provided by organic food and farming research, innovation that is to the benefit of the whole European society and will help to identify research priorities.

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