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ANN: Preliminary Programme ifoam'96 Scientific Conference



A Detailed Preliminary Programme for the 11th IFOAM International
Scientific Conference on Organic Agriculture in Copenhagen August 11th
to 15th is now available.

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IFOAM'96 PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME

Key-note speaches by: Michel Ableman, USA; Tuenjay Deetes, Thailand; 
Wes Jackson, USA and Bernard Oudraogo, Burkina Faso.
 
Special presentations by reowend scientist on the Fundamentals of
Organic Agriculture: Development of research in organic agriculture

- Soil ecology 
- Soil examination, soil fertility 
- Nutrients in organic systems 
- Healthy soil - healthy plants 
- Biodiversity a central concept in organic agriculture 
- Animal health in organic systems 
- The importance of Ethology to Organic Farming 
- Trees in Ecological Systems. The development of ecological 
  silviculture and agroforestry under different cultural and 
  climatic conditions 
- Product quality, environment quality and public health 
- Organic agriculture in the community 
- Potential of organic systems in 3rd World conditions
- Organic agriculture in a market economy 
- Agricultural policy and organic agriculture 
- Education and advising in organic agriculture
- The challenges of organic agriculture reflections on the past,
  outlook for the future
 
Symposia on important subjects:

- Nutrient balances and leaching
- Fibre production
- Agroforestry
- Stockless farming
- Nitrogen fixation
- Applied microbiology
- Long term trials
- The living soil
- Plant health and allelopathy
- Biodiversity and landscape
- Fair trade
- Animal health
- Conversion and farm economy
- Animal production systems
- Climate change and agriculture
- Marketing strategies
- Product quality assesment
- Genetic engineering
- Strategies for political action
- Regional conversion
- Indigenous knowledge
- Framers training and extension
- Academic education
- Philosophy and ethics
- Training projects
- Traditional methods
- Rural development
- Farmstudies and the farmer
- Knowledge and development
- Women in agriculture

Reports from more than 60 research projects

Report of the development of organic from 40 countries

Posters

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