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Biodynamic Research Association Denmark (BRAD), DenmarkBRAD is a small research institution with research experience in a.o. quality of organic and biodynamic plant products. The research focus is the development and application of the picture developing methods, biocrystallization and the `Steigbild' method. BRAD has designed and developed a novel computer-steered application in the biocrystalization method enabling standardization of procedures. BRAD is active in an international R&D-project aimed at validating the biocrystallization method.
Contact person: Jens-Otto Andersen, Ph.D.
E-mail: jens-otto.andersen@gmx.net
Landsbüvänget 27
Herskind
DK-8464 Galten, Denmark
Tel.: 0045-8695-4820
Danish Research Centre for Organic Farming (DARCOF)
DARCOF was established in 1995 as a "research centre without walls". The remit is to coordinate Danish research within organic food and farming, and the aim is to elucidate ideas and problems through the promotion of high quality research of international standard.
Contact person: Dr. Martin Tang SØrensen
E-mail: MartinT.Sorensen@agrsci.dk
Internet: www.darcof.dk
Research Centre Foulum
DK-8830 Tjele, Denmark
Tel.: 0045-89991554
Faxl.: 0049-89991673
Elm Farm Research Centre is a registered education charity
which seeks to develop and support appropriate agriculture and food systems,
primarily within local economies, which build on organic principles to ensure
the health and well-being of soil, plant, animal, man and the environment.
As Britain’s leading research, development and advisory institution
for organic agriculture, EFRC has played a pivotal role in the development
of organic research, policy and standards since 1980.
Research and development is undertaken in all aspects of organic food and
farming systems. Projects range from functional biodiversity to livestock
health and welfare and food quality. The policy programme covers a wider
range of environmental, technical and social issues and is conducted with
a number of farmer and institute partners.
Its Organic Advisory Service (OAS), formed in 1985, is the UK’s leading
provider of advice on organic farming and, amongst its other services, delivers
the free advisory visits funded by Defrc’s Organic Conversion Information
Service (OCIS).
EFRC’s Organic Demonstration Farm Network of 10 farms hosts an annual
programme of events and seminars. The programme is used to disseminate research
results and technical information.
The Centre is based on a fully converted organic farm near Newbury, Berkshire.
It disseminates details of all of its work through training, the website
(www.efrc.com), articles, scientific papers and publications and the production
of a regular journal – the Bulletin.
Contact person: Lawrence Woodward
E-mail: Lawrence.w@efrc.com
Internet: www.efrc.com
Hamstead Marshall
GB-Newbury, Berkshire, RG20 OHR
Tel.: 0044-1488658298
KWALIS Qualitätsforschung Fulda GmbH
Research, analysis and consultation within the area of food.
Contact person: Dr. Jürgen Strube
E-mail: kwalis@t-online.de
Internet: www.kwalis.de
Fuldaer Strasse 21
D-36160 Dipperz, Germany
Tel.: 0049-6657-6492
Fax: 0049-6657-6592
Laverstoke Park Laboratory Services
Laverstoke Park Laboratory Services is a laboratory focused on microbiology to examine the micro-organisms and nutrients present in our soil, water, plants and food. This is to study how the style of Biodynamic farming at the Laverstoke Park farm affects the quality and healthiness of the produced food.
The aim is to use the latest scientific techniques to enable a food production that is as natural as possible. Laverstoke Park laboratories have teamed up with Dr. Elaine Ingham’s Soil Foodweb group, and now as the Soil Foodweb (verlinkt mit der Homepage von Soilfoodweb laboratory for Europe, Laverstoke will be able to offer comprehensive analyses of the biological health of soil.
Our laboratory services will be available to other farms and food producers.
Contact person: Graham Kinsey
E-mail: info@laverstokepark.co.uk
Internet: www.laverstokepark.co.uk or www.soilfoodweb.com
Southley Farm
Laverstoke
Hampshire RG25 3DR
United Kingdom
Tel.: +44 (0)1256 890 900
Fax: +44 (0)1256 890 909
Louis Bolk Instituut (LBI), Driebergen, the Netherlands
The Louis Bolk Instituut in the Netherlands is an independent private research institute with departments specialising in organic agriculture, human nutrition and medicine. This unique combination enables a link between research on the production of organic food crops with research in human health and nutrition. Since its foundation the institute has been a pioneer in research areas like organic plant breeding, soil fertility management, crop and fruit production, animal husbandry, product quality, food related allergies, epidemiological and causitive studies on complementary health. The staff of 25 academically trained scientists has expertise in conventional research methods as well as in farmer participatory research, phenomenology, pictomorphological methods, sensory and medical research. LBI participates in several EU and national research projects.
Contact person: Machteld Huber, M.D.
E-mail: M.Huber@louisbolk.nl
Internet: www.louisbolk.nl
Hoofdstraat 24
NL-3972 LA Driebergen, The Netherlands
Tel.: 0031-343-523860
Fax: 0031-343-523860
Norwegian Centre for Ecological Agriculture (NORSOK)
NORSOK is an institute that works with the research and development of organic agriculture and plays a major role as the national centre of competence for organic agriculture in Norway.
Contact person: Grete Lene Serikstad
E-mail: grete.lene.serikstad@norsok.no
Internet: www.norsok.no
Tingvoll Gard
NO-6630 Tingvoll, Norway
Tel.: 0049-6657-6492
Fax: 0049-6657-6592
Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL), Frick, Switzerland
The Swiss Research Institute of Organic Agriculture was constituted as a private foundation by organic farmers, scientists and politicians in 1973. It has established practice-oriented agronomic, ecological, veterinary medicine and economic research, and is making new findings available to the organic farmers in Switzerland and abroad. On-farm research is carried out within a network of about 200 pilot farms.Today, the institute has more than one hundred scientific and technical employees and has world-wide recognition as a competence centre fororganic research, advice, development cooperation and documentation. In 2001 FiBL Berlin was founded. FiBL participates in several EU funded projects.
Contact person: Gabriela Wyss
E-mail: gabriela.wyss@fibl.org
Internet: www.fibl.org
Ackerstrasse
Postfach
CH-5070 Frick, Switzerland
Tel.: 0041 62 865 72 72
Fax: 0041 62 865 72 73
TNO – Nutrition and Foodresearch
Contact person: Drs. Jan Willem van der
Kamp
E-mail: vanderkamp@voeding.tno.nl
Internet: www.tno.nl
P.O. Box 360
NL-3700 AJ Zeist
Tel.: 0031-306944900
Fax: 0031-306944075
The Faculty of Ecological Agricultural Science at the University of Kassel (Witzenhausen) is the leading Agricultural Faculty with a focus on organic agriculture in Germany. Since November 2001 a new Department for `Organic Food Quality and Food Culture' was established. In this interdisciplinary working group food scientists, nutrition scientists, medical doctors as well as agronomists, chemists and physicists are working together to develop and validate new complementary methods to examine food quality. The influence of processing (additives, technologies) on organic food quality parameters (product and process oriented) are other research topics. Intervention studies to link food quality with human health aspects are planned. The faculty participates in EU-funded projects as well as in projects funded by the German government.
Contact person: Prof. Dr. Angelika Meier-Ploeger
E-mail: amp@uni-kassel.de
Internet: http://mars.wiz.uni-kassel.de/nue
Nordbahnhofstrasse 1a
D-37213 Witzenhausen, Germany
Tel.: 0049-5542-981714
Fax: 0049-5542-981713
Warsaw Agricultural University
Division of Organic Foodstuffs
A Division of Organic Foodstuffs in Warsaw Agricultural University is a teaching and research Unit interested for many years in the quality of the organically produced foods and their impact on animal and human health. We are also interested in the wider environmental and social context of the organic farming, especially in the mutual relationship between environment and agricultural production quality.
Our group consists of the specialists in ecology, horticulture, nutrition, environment protection, animal science and public health. The interdisciplinary and multidirectional background of our group provides a good basis to conduct complicated research projects.
The main research projects conducted over last 15 years have been connected with the nutritive and sensory value of the plant products from the organic cultivation (potatoes, carrots, cabbage, apples, tomatoes, paprika, onions) and some processed plant foods (apple preserves, potato puree). The Division also conducts some studies on food habits and food intake within the consumers eating organically vs. conventionally.
At present we start the animal dietary intervention study of effect of organic vs. conventional food production methods on health and well – being of rats within the QualityLowInputFood EU project. The Division participated also in other EU projects connected with organic agriculture.
Contact person: prof. dr Ewa Rembiałkowska
E-mail: ewa_rembialkowska@sggw.pl
Internet: http://www.sggw.waw.pl/
Nowoursynowska 159 c
02-787 Warszawa, Poland
Tel.: 0048 22 59 37 0 38
Fax: 0048 22 59 37 0 36
WUR-RIKILT Institute of Food Safety is a Dutch independent
research institute for contract research in the food chain and is a part
of Wageningen University & Researchcentre.
The institute with its 175 staff focuses on research on the safety and health
of food with a multidisciplinary approach.
Contact person: Dr. Ir. Robert van Gorcom
E-mail: robert.vangorcom@wur.nl
Internet: www.rikilt.wageningen-ur.nl
P.O.Box 230
NL-6700 AE
Wageningen, The Netherlands
Tel.: 0031-317-475448
Fax: 0031-317-475559
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