creators_name: Niggli, Urs
creators_name: Willer, Helga
editors_name: Danish Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, 
type: conference_item
datestamp: 2003-08-17
lastmod: 2009-08-20 14:19:53
metadata_visibility: show
title: Stimulating the potential for innovation in organic farming by research
ispublished: pub
subjects: history
subjects: 6communication
full_text_status: public
keywords: History of organic farming research, research methodology, research structures, Forschungskommunikation
abstract: Organic farming research has been developed over 4 stages: 

i) Pioneer farmers and scientists, 
ii) pioneer private research institutes, 
iii) organic farming chairs at universities and finally 
iv) organic farming projects and institutes at state research institutions. 

Today, organic agriculture has become finally accepted within agriculture and food research. The main key players in organic research in Europe are mentioned in the text.

Mainly in Europe, public funded research has shifted towards organic farming, whereas the research resources for conventional farming have been cut down considerably. 

The paper gives an overview of the current status and the future prospects of organic farming research in Europe.
date: 2001
date_type: published
publication: Organic Food and farming - Towards Partnership and Action in Europe, 10 - 11 MAY 2001, COPENHAGEN, Denmark
publisher: Danish Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Copenhagen
pagerange: 194-199
refereed: never
referencetext: Hoeoek, Karin / Swedish Council for Forestry and Agricultural Research: Ecological Agriculture and Horticulture, 1997: Research in Seven European Countries. Stockholm, October 1997

Niggli, Urs and William Lockeretz, 1996: Development of research in organic agriculture. In: Oestergaard, (Ed.): Fundamentals of Organic Agriculture. IFOAM, Tholey-Theley, pp. 9-23.

Niggli, Urs, 1999: Research in Organic Farming in Europe - Priorities and Needs. Paper held at the EU Conference in Baden nr. Vienna, 27./28.5.1999; Eurotech Management, 1999: Organic Farming in the European Union. - Perspectives for the 21st Century. Proceedings of the conference held 27-28. May 1999, Baden /Vienna, Austria. Vienna, July 1999

Niggli, Urs and Helga Willer: Organic Agricultural Research in Europe - Present State and Future Prospects. In: Alföldi, Thomas, William Lockeretz and Urs Niggli (Eds.): IFOAM 2000 - The World Grows Organic. Proceedings 13th IFOAM Scientific Conference. Zürich, 2000

Padel, Susanne, 1999: Research in Organic Agriculture in Europe. In: The policy and regulatory environment for organic farming in Europe. Lampkin, Nicolas, Carolyn Foster, Susanne Padel, and Peter Midmore. Organic Farming in Europe: Economics and Policy, Vol. 1 University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart-Hohenheim 

Willer, Helga and Uli Zerger, 1999: Demand of Research and Development in Organic Farming in Europe. In: Zanoli, R. and R. Krell (Eds.): First SREN Workshop on Research Methodologies in Organic Farming. Proceedings. Food and Agriculture Organisation FAO, Rome 1999

Wynen, Els and David Vanzetti, 1999: Research in organic Agriculture . Paper held at the organic farming conference at ISARA, Lyon 1999.

citation: Niggli, Urs and Willer, Helga (2001) Stimulating the potential for innovation in organic farming by research. European Conference - Organic Food and Farming, Copenhagen, Denmark, 10.-11. May 2001. In: Danish Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, (Ed.) Organic Food and farming - Towards Partnership and Action in Europe, 10 - 11 MAY 2001, COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Danish Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Copenhagen, pp. 194-199.
document_url: http://orgprints.org/1048/1/niggli-willer-2001-research.pdf