Short info on Presenters
| Name | Institution/ Land | Short info |
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| Abel, Sabine | University of Kassel Witzenhausen, Germany |
I studied agricultural sciene at the university of Bonn and Göttingen. Since May 2006 I work for the QLIF-project (work package 4.4.1.3) at the Department of Animal Nutrition and Animal Health at the Faculty of Organic Agricultural Science of the university of Kassel. |
| Alins Valls, Georgina | IRTA Lleida, Spain |
My name is Georgina Alins and I work as a researcher in IRTA (Institute of Research and Technology on Food&Agriculture) located in Catalonia, North-East of Spain. I am doing a PhD on organic apple tree production and I am developing 4 lines of research: organic thinning agents for apple trees, organic management of the rosy apple aphid (Dysaphis plantaginea), agronomic quality of scab resistant apple tree and effects of cover crops on apple pests, natural enemies and apple tree production and growth. |
| Bellon, Stéphane | National Institute of Agricultural Research (INRA) Avignon, France |
Stéphane Bellon in an agronomist, working at Inra Avignon, France
In an interdisciplinary research unit "Ecodevelopement". |
| Belloni, Paola | Interdepartmental Agro-ecological Research Centre “Enrico Avanzi” Pisa University, Italy |
She is part of the graduated staff of Interdepartmental Research Centre “Enrico Avanzi” of Pisa University. Her research interests have as subjects:
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| Benbrook, Charles | The Organic Centre | Personal homepage |
| Biavati, Bruno | Department of Agroenvironmental Sciences and Technologies, University of Bologna Bologna, Italy |
Full professor at the School of Agricultural Sciences of the University of Bologna. More than 150 publications, communications and books: on Bacterial Taxonomy describing 23 new species, on microbial ecology of humans and animals intestinal tract, on the use of probiotics and on natural substances with antimicrobial activity. Teaching activity at faculties of: agriculture, biotechnology, science, and veterinary. |
| Boldrini, Arianna | University of Perugia Dept. of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Perugia, Italy |
The topic of my research is the comparison of two different cropping farming systems: organic and low input. In particular the aims of the project are to evaluate:
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| Bonde, Marianne | AARHUS UNIVERSITET / UNIVERSITY OF AARHUS Tjele, Denmark |
Scientist at University of Aarhus, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Dept Animal Health, Welfare and nutrition. Work area: Assessment of health and welfare in pig herds, development of management tools for improving animal health and welfare on-farm. Comparative studies of health aspects in organic and conventional pig production systems. In QLIF WP2.2.3 Survey comparing salmonella shedding at slaughter in organic, conventional outdoor and indoor pig production systems. |
| Bos, Jules | Plant Research International, Wageningen University and Research Centre Wageningen, The Netherlands |
Jules Bos is employed by the Department of Agrosystems Research, which is part of Plant Research International, which in turn is part of Wageningen University and Research Center. The Department of Agrosystems Research is a research group dedicated to the sustainability of agriculture, both from a national and international perspective. We design and develop socially desirable land use systems that are ecologically and economically sound. To develop these systems, we integrate expertise and information on crop production, animal production, soils, production means, technology and climate. Our research is a mixture of experimental research, participatory research and desk study.
Within the Department of Agrosystems Research, Jules is involved in several, quite diverse projects. These range from developing a linear programming model to optimise nutrient management in arable farms to assessing relationships between farm practices and the widespread declines of farmland bird populations. Some key words applicable in all these projects are conventional farming, organic farming, linear programming, farmland birds and nutrient cycling. |
| Bosco, Marco | University of Bologna Italy |
Associate Professor of Soil Microbiology (2001), PhD in Soil Sciences - biological fertility (1990), Degree in Agricultural Sciences (1986). He is involved in research and teaching on plant-probiotic rhizosphere micro-organisms as plant-production factors, since 1994. Most recent research topics include the genetic dependence of plants from their co-evolved soil probiotics, and a micorrhizosphere metagenomic approach to plant genetic improvement (low-input and organic breeding). He is member of ISOFAR since its foundation.
Within QLIF, he is managing the WP333, an industry-academia co-operative effort to understand the role of plant-probiotic rhizosphere micro-organisms in improving quality, reducing production costs, and extending soil fertility of organic-grown tomato. |
| Cohen, Yilga | Bar-Ilan University, Institut of Organic Agriculture Ramat-Gan, Israel |
Our main research areas:
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| Cooper, Julia | Nafferton Ecological Farming Group (NEFG), Nafferton Farm, University of Newcastle Stocksfield, United Kingdom |
Julia Cooper graduated from the University of Guelph in Canada with a degree in Soil Science in 1986. She completed an M.Sc. in Soil Fertility from Dalhousie University in 1993 and is in the process of completing a PhD from the same institution in the field of soil C and N dynamics. She has a long history of working in the field of sustainable agriculture research and development in Thailand, The Gambia, and Canada. She is currently employed as a Research Associate on the QLIF project at the University of Newcastle. |
| Cornish, Peter | University of Western Sydney Sydney, Australia |
His current research areas include soil/plant water and phosphorus relationships; farming system design and analysis (including organic systems); and measurement and management of the environmental impacts of agriculture at paddock to catchment scales. He has major research interests in watershed development for the rural poor in India.
He is an advisor to the Australian government on research into organic agriculture and has been involved in setting organic standards in Australia. He was an editor of the Adelaide ISOFAR Proceedings." |
| Dafermos, Nikolaos G. | University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, School of Agriculture Food and Rural Development Stocksfield, UK |
PhD student at University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, School of Agriculture Food and Rural Development.
Currently in the 2nd year of study under the supervision of Professor Carlo Leifert and Professor N. E. Malathrakis (TEI Crete, Greece). |
| Denver, Sigrid | Institute of Food and Resource Economics,
Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Copenhagen Denmark |
Sigrid Denver graduated from University of Copenhagen, Denmark, with a degree in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics in 2005. Her main research area is consumer behaviour with focus on:
The research is mainly based on econometric analysis of purchase data at household level. |
| Dux, Julia | Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental crops (IGZ) Großbeeren/ Berlin, Germany |
I am in my first year working as a Phd student at the Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental crops (IGZ) in Großbeeren /Berlin. I am working with Dr. Matthias Fink in the department of modelling and knowledge transfer. The general topic of my thesis is the prediction of N supply from organic sources with computer based simulation programs. This work is embedded in the framework of the QLIF objectives. |
| Entz, Martin | Department of Plant Science, University of Manitoba Winnipeg, Canada |
Martin started working on organic crop production in 1989, when he was hired by the University of Manitoba as a cropping systems agronomist. In 1992, he started the Glenlea study, which is Canada’s oldest organic-conventional comparison experiment. Collaboration with graduate students and other colleagues has been very important to the success of Martin’s organic crops research. Martin advises provincial and national governments on organic farming and he conducts the “Organic University”, a short-course for industry and public agronomists. Martin and his family are active in a small farm located near Winnipeg. |
| Eyre, Mick | University of Newcastle upon Tyne Stocksfield, UK |
Dr M D Eyre is in charge of biodiversity research at the Nafferton Ecological Farming Group, University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He is an entomologist with 25 years experience of carrying out survey work on a wide variety of both terrestrial and aquatic habitat types in northern England and Scotland, using invertebrates to define habitat types. Other investigations include the synthesis of national invertebrate datasets with environmental factors such as land cover and climatic variables covering Britain. Recent work has concentrated on assessing the effects of farm management practices on the activity of beneficial invertebrates on plot trials, on a split conventional/organic university farm in northern England and in an intensive mixed conventional/organic vegetable field system in eastern England. |
| Fine, Pinchas | Dept. of Soil Chemistry and Plant Nutrition, Institute of Soil, Water and Environmental Sciences, Volcani Center, Agricultural Research Organization, Ministry of Agriculture, Israel |
Dr. Fine is a soil scientist and environmentalist. He received his degrees from the Tel-Aviv University, Israel, and his Post-Doc was at UC Davis. In 1987 he joined Volcani Center. He specializes in environmental soil chemistry, studying fate of carbon, plant nutrients and heavy metals in soils receiving urban and agricultural waste products. He also studies remediation of metal polluted soils. In recent years Dr. Fine has been working on compost and soil properties combining aspects of plant nutrition and plant protection in organic agriculture, and his presentation today will be on this issue. |
| Fliessbach, Andreas | Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FIBL) Frick, Switzerland |
Andreas Fliessbach graduated at Göttingen University in 1986. He did his PhD-work at FAL Braunschweig on soil biological effects of heavy metals. In the frame of a postdoc project at FAL Braunschweig and Bar-Ilan-University he worked on soil microbiota and decomposition processes in desert ecosystems. Since 1995 he is soil ecologist in the soil sciences group at FiBL, where his work concerns research on soil microbiology and biochemistry in the DOK long-term trial, in pesticide risk studies, and climate change related aspects. |
| Ghorbani, Mohammad | Ferdowsi University of Mashhad(FUM) Mashhad,Iran |
Ghorbani, Mohammad is member of agricultural economics Department in FUM, Mashhad.He is sepcialist on agricultural production and management and have several national project on economics of environment and agricultural marketing. he work on demand and prefernces of iranian household to consume organic product and has a econometrics model for estimating of organic production in iran. |
| Gonzálvez, Victor | IFOAM EU Group, Brussels (Belgium), and Catarroja (Valencia; Spain | Currently, part time research assistant of the IFOAM EU Group, for two EU funded projects (Organic Revision and ORGAP projects), to enhance organic stakeholders participation in research activities.
Degree in agriculture engineering, in Spain, Politechnical University of Valencia. Over 25 years experience as extensionist in Spain Extension Service and Central America development projects, working with horizontal methodologies for organic innovation and technology transference (peasant to peasant programmes) working in several organic networks. From 1996 to 1999, working as Latin-American coordinator in an IFOAM /MAELA Project on “comparison of organic and conventional farms” with easy on farm sustainable indicators. The presented paper is analysing the support of the past and the current 7th EU Framework Research Programme (FRP) for organic farming research, empathising a need to involve more stakeholders and to devote more funds to develop organic agriculture sector and technologies |
| Hajslova, Jana | Institute of Chemical Technology Prague, Department of Food Chemistry and Analysis, Prague, Czech Republic | Professor Jana Hajslova is an expert on food analysis and chemical food safety. 25 years of experience in trace analysis, contaminants, and toxicants. Coordinator/participant of several national and international research projects (COST, INCO Copernicus - 4th, 5th, and 6th EU FP, NATO) on food quality and safety. Closely collaborates with National Accreditation body and has established links with several European Institutions concerned with analytical quality assurance (AQA) activities. |
| Hamm, Ulrich | University of Kassel
Witzenhausen, Germany |
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| Heibertshausen, Dagmar Sybille | Geisenheim Research Center Institute of Biology Section Geisenheim, Germany |
Since August 2004, I have been working as a research assistant (and PhD student) in the Section of Phytomedicine of the Geisenheim Research Center under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Beate Berkelmann-Loehnertz. I am currently involved in a comprehensive cluster project titled „Optimisation of organic viticulture with particular consideration on downy mildew (Plasmopara viticola)“.
In advance of my post-graduate studies, I have taken a degree course in Agrobiology at the University of Hohenheim (Stuttgart; Germany), which I completed successfully in July 2004. My undergraduate dissertation dealt with the biological control of Podosphaera xanthii (CASTAGNE) in Calendula officinalis L. and investigations into its infection cycle. This work was supervised by Prof. Dr. H. Buchenauer (Institute of Phytomedicine; University of Hohenheim) and conducted in collaboration with Weleda AG, Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany. |
| Heijne, Bart | Applied Plant Research (PPO-fruit) Zetten, the Netherlands |
After finishing his master’s degree (1981) in the subject of crop protection at Wageningen University and Research Centre, he worked on mainly on the protection of ornamentals in glasshouses. Subsequently, he worked at the University of Utrecht, Department Plant Ecology, which resulted in a PhD thesis titled “Effects of acid rain on vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhiza of herbaceous plants in dry heathland”. Then, he worked for a year as team leader phytopathology at Solvay-Duphar, Weesp, the Netherlands. He joint fruit research in 1991 at the Fruit Research Station, Wilhelminadorp, the Netherlands. At the moment, he works since 1997 as senior scientist crop protection at Applied Plant Research, an institute of Wageningen University and Research Centre, at Randwijk, the Netherlands. Since 1996, he is involved in organic fruit growing. Since 1991 he is writing in fruit grower’s journals and giving presentations for fruit growers and extension (advisory) organisations both in the Netherlands and neighbouring countries. He is regular participant of European conferences presenting papers on all aspects of crop protection in fruit crops. |
| Ismond, Alan | Aqua-Terra Consultants Washington, USA |
Alan Ismond has a degree in chemical engineering and over 30 years of experience in the food industry. He is a consultant and a food quality advocate. |
| Kijlstra, Aize | Institute: Animal Sciences Group, Wageningen University and Research Centres The Netherlands |
Professor Aize Kijlstra is an expert on the parasite Toxoplasma gondii, a parasite that is now considered as the food-borne pathogen with the highest human disease burden. Since therapy for Toxoplasma in humans is disappointing, prevention of disease is shifting towards the development of Toxoplasma Free Food. Professor Kijlstra his current research is directed towards this goal and he has therefore started investigations concerning the role of animal friendly production systems in the re-emergence of Toxoplasma infections in livestock and means of controlling this food safety problem. His recent findings performed within the QLIF program show that rodent control appears to be an important tool to control Toxoplasma infections in organic pig production systems. Furthermore his group was the first to show that the feeding of not pasteurized goat whey can cause abundant Toxoplasma infection in slaughter pigs. These observations indicate that Toxoplasma Free animal friendly productions systems are feasible, but that strict control is needed. |
| Klocke, Peter | Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FIBL) Frick, Switzerland |
Peter Klocke is veterinarian and working in the animal health division since 1999. Since 2005 he is head of this division. The main research areas are
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| Koesling, Matthias | Bioforsk Økologisk / Bioforsk Organic Food and Farming Division Tingvoll , Norway |
Matthias Koesling is working as a researcher at the Organic Food and Farming Division at Bioforsk in Norway. The last years he was working with a project including all stages of the supply chain. The project had the goal to introduce organic food in the university hospital. Now he is working for the national marked development project “Organic Food in the military service – 15% by 2010”.
No tasks in QLIF. |
| Koopmans, Chris | Louis Bolk Institute Driebergen, The Netherlands |
Chris Koopmans graduated at Wageningen University and got his PhD from the University of Amsterdam. His main fields of interest include sustainable soil management, soil biodiversity and development of farming systems. In his research he combines a participatory research approach with on-farm experiments and dynamic simulation modelling.
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| Kretzschmar Rüger, Ursula | Research Institute of Organic Agriculture FiBL Frick, Switzerland |
Leader of QLIF subproject 5 Development of a framework for the design of "minimum" and "low input" processing strategies, which guarantee food quality and safety. |
| Langhout, Jos | Louis Bolk Institute Driebergen, The Netherlands |
I work in the field of organic animal production on subjects in dairy farming:
To enhance animal welfare in terms of ‘natural living’ we work on the development of suckling systems in organic dairy calf rearing. Since 2002 we have worked on on-farm on the development of suckling systems. In QLIF we do an on-farm comparison of calf-rearing methods and will present today the first results. |
| Leifert, Carlo | Nafferton Ecological Farming Group, University of Newcastle UK |
Project leader QLIF |
| Leskinen, Marita | University of Helsinki/
Ruralia Institute Mikkeli, Finland |
Marita Leskinen
(senior researcher, M.Sc.(Food Tech.)) has been working for University of Helsinki/ Ruralia Institute since 1991. At the moment she is working as a product development manager in a meat company beside the work as a head of Eco& Food developing group at the university. She has been doing different projects dealing with food processing, food developing, organic food processing and developing and organic legislation. She has been the chairman of organic expertise group (Finnish Food Expertise Centre). In the EU project “Improving quality and safety and reduction of cost in the European organic and “low input” food supply chains (QualityLowInputFood)” she has been working for the subprojects WP 5.1, 5.2 concerning food processing. |
| Liang, Song | Chinese University of Hong Kong, The government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region P.R.China |
Ms. Liang is a PhD student in her last year study at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Department of Biology. Her research interests mainly focus on the environmental biotechnology, from basic to applied studies on
The latest research about the effects of applying spent mushroom substrate on soil and plant quality, especially the consequent reduced drought stress on wheat cultivation will be presented this time. |
| Løes, Anne-Kristin | Bioforsk Økologisk Tingvoll, Norway |
I grew up on a (conventional) farm close to Oslo, graduated in soil science at the Agricultural University of Norway in 1986, and have been working at the Norwegian Centre for Ecological Agriculture (NORSØK) since 1988. In 2006, NORSØK merged with other Norwegian research institutes to form Bioforsk, and the NORSØK people were converted to Bioforsk Organic Food and Farming experts. My doctoral thesis was about plant nutrition, completed 2003. My research tasks have been mainly about whole farm case studies, green manures and farmers’ motivation for organic agriculture. I am the Norwegian editor of Organic E-prints. |
| Lueck, Lorna | Nafferton Ecological Farming Group (NEFG), Nafferton Farm, University of Newcastle Stocksfield, UK |
Dr Lorna Lueck received her Ph.D. in crop science at the Humboldt University Berlin in 2001 and worked for two years as post doc at the University of Massachusetts in the field of medicinal plants. She has practical experience in organic agriculture and a solid background in plant sciences. Since 2004 she has been working in the UK managing different EU projects and joined QLIF in 2005 as project manager. Besides the overall management the main focus of her research work lies in the food quality and safety of crops under organic and other low input systems. |
| Lücke, Friedrich-Karl | University of Applied Sciences, Dept. of Nutritional, Food and Consumer Sciences Fulda, Germany |
Dr. Friedrich-Karl Lücke has a background in general microbiology. He was responsible for a laboratory for microbiology at the German Federal Institute for Meat Research for over ten years where he has been working on various problems related to meat safety and meat fermentation. In 1989, he was appointed professor of microbiology and food technology at Fulda University of Applied Sciences, and is involved in various projects related to the assessment and management of quality and safety of foods, with focus on organic foods and small and medium enterprises. |
| Mallia, Silivia | Agroscope Liebefeld-Posieux and at the ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich Switzerland |
PhD student Title of the Thesis: "Investigations on the oxidative stability and on the aroma characteristics of conventional butter and butter enriched in conjugated linoleic acids". |
| Maurer, Veronika | Research Institute of Organic Agriculture FiBL Frick, Switzerland |
QLIF Work package 4.1 |
| Melchett, Peter | Soil Association Bristol , United Kingdom |
Peter Melchett is Policy Director of the Soil Association, the UK organic food and farming organisation. He runs an 890-acre organic farm in Norfolk, with pigs, beef cattle, sheep and arable crops. He is on of the Board of the EU £12m Research Project ‘Quality Low Input Food’, the Government’s Organic Action Plan Group, and the BBC’s Rural Affairs Committee. He was a member of the Department of Education’s School Lunches Review Panel.
He was a Labour Government Minister 1974-79, at the Departments of Environment, Industry, and Northern Ireland (covering education and health). He has been President or Chair of several conservation ngos, and was Chair or Director of Greenpeace UK from 1985 to 2000. |
| Ness, Mitchell | School of Agriculture, Food and Rural Development, University of Newcastle Newcastle upon Tyne, UK |
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| Niggli, Urs | Research Institute of Organic Agriculture FiBL Frick, Switzerland |
Urs Niggli is the director of FiBL and the academic coordinator of the QLIF project. |
| Ölmez, Hülya | TÜBİTAK MAM Food Institute Turkey |
Hülya Ölmez: is a food engineer, working as a researcher for 10 years in TÜBİTAK ( The Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey) Marmara Research Center, Food Institute. She worked on 'growth and inactivation kinetics modeling of bacteria' during her PhD. She is responsible for the workpackage on 'Chlorine replacement strategies for fresh-cut vegetables' in the QLIF project. |
| Peigné, F. | ISARA-Lyon Lyon, France |
To help organic farmers to adopt conservation tillage, we study the impact of 4 tillage systems (mouldboard ploughing, shallow mouldboard ploughing, reduced tillage and no tillage) on soil fertility. Our presentation deals with the effect of tillage on soil structure, such as compaction event, and the potential impact of earthworm activity on it regeneration. |
| Postma, Joeke | Plant Research International (PRI) Wageningen, The Netherlands |
Joeke Postma is a plant pathologist focussing on soil borne (fungal) diseases and microbial ecology. Type of research: By introducing antagonists or by stimulating the beneficial microflora in soil or other substrates, more balanced agricultural and horticultural systems are created. Results in field experiments and bioassays are further analysed with cultivation based as well as by molecular microbial techniques. Pathogens involved are: Pythium, Rhizoctonia. Streptomyces and Erwinia. Key words of the research: disease suppression, microbiologically buffered systems, biological control, soil-borne diseases, agrobiodiversity. |
| Rehberger, Brita | Agroscope Liebefeld-Posieux, Federal Department of Economic Affairs (DEA) Berne, Switzerland |
Project manager Milk Processing; Work area within EU-QLIF: Work Package Leader of WP 5.3 |
| Rembiałkowska, Ewa |
Warsaw Agricultural University / Division of Organic Foodstuffs, Poland | Ewa Rembiałkowska (professor in ecology of nutrition) has been working for Warsaw Agricultural University / Division of Organic Foodstuffs since 1985. At the moment she is working as a Head of Division of Organic Foodstuffs. She is teaching ecology and environmental protection and ecological aspects of food and nutrition. She is leading a multidisciplinary specialization MSc group “Environment – food – health”. She has been doing different projects dealing with organic food quality and its impact on animal and human health, also multifunctional rural development. Ewa Rembiałkowska has been the vice- chairman of Ecological Forum (Polish informal group of scientists and experts in organic farming). In the EU project “Improving quality and safety and reduction of cost in the European organic and “low input” food supply chains (QualityLowInputFood)” she has been leading the WP 2.3.2. Animal dietary intervention study of effect of organic vs conventional food production methods on health and well – being of rats. |
| Röder, Elke | Bundesverband Naturkost Naturwaren (BNN)
Herstellung und Handel e.V. |
Elke Röder studied agricultural sciences in Göttingen, Germany and has been director of the Organic Food and Products Association for Traders and Processors (BNN).since 1989. The association has more than 60 members. - Processors, traders, importers. Elke Röder is a member of the Accreditation Committee (AC) of the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM), a founding member of the German Federation of the Organic Food Sector (BOELW) and a member of the advisory committee in charge of the German Federal Organic Farming Scheme. |
| Šarapatka, Bořivoj | Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic | Professor and the Head of the Department of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Degree in Agricultural Sciences and postgraduate study in Ecology, Ph.D. in Agricultural Sciences. At the Department of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, he is responsible for teaching and research in soil science, land use optimization and agroecology. Bořivoj Šarapatka is a co-founder of Bioinstitut – Institut for Ecological Agriculture and Sustainable Landscape Management. He is a member of ISOFAR and International Union of Soil Sciences. |
| Särkkä-Tirkkonen, Marjo | University of Helsinki/ Ruralia Institute Mikkeli, Finland |
Marjo Särkkä-Tirkkonen (senior planning officer, M.Sc.(Food Tech.)) has been working for University of Helsinki /Ruralia Institute since 1999. She’s been responsible for research projects concerning food technology and for training programs for SMEs. She is also the official tester of hygiene proficiency at the Ruralia Institute. In the EU project “Improving quality and safety and reduction of cost in the European organic and “low input” food supply chains (QualityLowInputFood)” she has been working for the subprojects WP 5.1, 5.2 concerning food processing. |
| Schulzova, Vera | Institute of Chemical Technology Prague, Department of Food Chemistry and Analysis, Prague, Czech Republic | Assistant Professor Vera Schulzova is working in the field of food analysis. Work area: biologically active compounds, natural toxicants, assessment of the quality of crops from organic and conventional farming. |
| Sørensen, Martin Tang | University of Aarhus Denmark |
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| Spoolder, Hans | Animal Sciences Group of Wageningen University and Research Centre Lelystad, The Netherlands |
Dr. Hans Spoolder leads a group of animal health and welfare researchers at the Animal Sciences Group of Wageningen UR in Lelystad (NL). His background is in animal behaviour, and his main interest the welfare of farm animals. He is involved in several studies on animal health and husbandry in organic farming systems. For QLIF, he is the leader of subproject 4 on livestock. |
| Stanley, Richard | Agriculture Department,
Campden and Chorleywood Food Research Association,
Chipping Campden Gloucestershire, UK |
Richard Stanley is a Principal Research Officer in the Agriculture Department at Campden and Chorleywood Food Research Association in the UK. Richard is from a farming background and has a BSc in Agriculture After living and working in France following a horticultural career, he returned to the UK, obtaining a PhD from the University of Aston In Birmingham, undertaking an assessment of the future role of novel protein sources in the UK. In the Agriculture Department of CCFRA he is responsible for management of variety evaluation trials of vegetable and fruit crops, presenting training courses on quality assurance in the food industry. He is also an evaluator for the BRC standard undertaking third party audits of food businesses in the fresh produce sector. Richard has an interest in quality assurance in the food chain and has experience of organic production methods and standards. |
| Stolz, Hanna | Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL) Frick, Switzerland |
H. Stolz is working in the socioeconomic division at the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL) since 2005. She is working in the field of consumer research in national and international projects and is doing a PhD thesis about consumer attitudes and behaviour towards organic food. |
| Tamm, Lucius | Research Institute of Organic Agriculture FiBL Frick, Switzerland |
Leader of QLIF subproject 3 ‘Development of strategies to improve quality and safety and reduce cost of production in organic and “low input” crop production systems’ . |
| Theodoropoulou, Afroditi | University of Newcastle, UK |
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| Timmermans, Bart Gerardus Hubertus | Louis Bolk Institute, The Netherlands | Bart Timmermans graduated in Biology at Utrecht University 2001 and did his PhD on crop growth at Wageningen University. He is currently working as a researcher in the department Soil and Plant at the Louis Bolk Institute. Interests: crop growth and management, seed science, plant diseases and crop modelling. Current research involves potato and Phytophthora infestans, spring wheat and Fusarium spp., and energy crops. |
| Tung, Shih-Jui | National Chung-Hsing University Talchung, Taiwan |
Shih-Jui Tung is a professor at the department of Bio-industry Extension and Management of the National Chung-Hsing University and currently is responsible for an “organic farmers’ market” project in middle Taiwan. His major research interests include extension education, social marketing, and digital communication with special regard to organic products. |
| van der Burgt, Geert-Jan | Louis Bolk Instituut, Driebergen, the Netherlands | Mr. Van der Burgt has completed his msc. tropical agronomy at Wageningen University and has been working in a rural development project in Ecuador. Back in Holland he was employed in agronomic education for both youngsters and adults for seven years. After five years working as coordinator in the Biodynamic Association in Holland he joined the soil research group of the Louis Bolk Instituut where he has been working now for eleven years. He is specialist in nitrogen dynamics in organic agriculture, and combining this knowledge with the intention to create useful tools for farmers he further developed the NDICEA model to be used by farmers and extension workers. |
| Vian, Jean François | ISARA-Lyon Lyon, France |
In the same experimental site than Peigné et al., we study the impact of 4 tillage systems (mouldboard ploughing, shallow mouldboard ploughing, reduced tillage and no tillage) on crop nutrition and soil fertility. Our presentation deals with the effect of tillage on soil structure modification and the impact on soil microbial biomass and soil micro-organisms activities. |
| von Bennewitz Álvarez, Eduardo | Universidad Católica del Maule, Escuela de Agronomía Curicó-Chile |
Experience in projects related to integrated and ecological production systems in agriculture and fruit tree nutrition in Chile. |
| Vogt-Kaute, Werner | Naturland Verband Wartmannsroth, Germany |
Advisor with the German organic farmer association Naturland. Research on leguminous crops, crop protection. |
| Zanoli, Raffaele | Polytchnic University of Ancona Ancona, Italy |
Prof. Raffaele Zanoli, Ph.D., is Full Professor of Economics & Marketing Management at the Polytchnic University of Ancona. He is involved in organic research since 1987. His studies reflects the broad range of interests of his team, spacing from the efficiency of organic and in-conversion farms,to organic farm survival studies, organic farming policy and organic consumer research. In QLIF he is involved in SP1, focusing on organic consumer, WP6.1 on supply-chains, and WP7.2 on cost-benefit analysis of the QLIF project itself. In Italy he is founder and actually president of GRAB-IT, the Italian Association of Organic Farming Researchers. |
