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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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