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International Centre for Research in Organic Food Systems (ICROFS)

The International Centre for Research in Organic Food Systems (ICROFS) is a “centre without walls” where the research is performed in interdisciplinary collaboration between research groups in different institutions and universities. The centre is an expansion of the former research centre DARCOF, which the Danish Government in 2008 decided to give an international mandate and an international board. The main purpose of ICROFS is to initiate, coordinate and monitor high quality research of international standard in organic food and farming systems. Further, the aim of ICROFS is to stimulate international and transnational research and secure impact of the research results through support and dissemination in order to achieve optimum benefit from the allocated resources.

Contact person: Mrs. Susanne Bügel
E-mail: shb@life.ku.dk
Internet: www.icrofs.org
Foulum, P.O. Box 50
DK-8830 Tjele, Denmark
Tel: +45 89 99 16 75
Fax: +45 89 99 16 73
E-mail: icrofs@icrofs.org

Ongoing projects within Darcof III:

• Organic food and health
• Organic milk of high quality
• Integrity and quality of organic meet and eggs
• Organic aquaculture
• Organic cropping systems for vegetable production
• The viability and stability of demand
• Grass-clover in organic dairy farming
• Control of weeds in organic cropping
• Health and integrity in organic dairy production
• High quality seed
• Effect of cropping systems on production and the environment
• Organic farms as refugia for biodiversity
• Biomass and production of bioenergy in organic agriculture
• Public policies and deman for organic food
• Sustainability of organic farming in a global food chains perspective