Potential of Organic Farming to contribute to Rural Development in Europe

  

28 May to 2 June 2006 in connection with the Joint Organic Congress (JOC)

 

4 ECTS: 120 hours. Intensive week: 50 hours, reading and writing assignment: 70 hours.
1 ECTS is 30 hours (NOVA).

 

Venue
Dansk Folkeferie, Middelfart
Oddevejen 8, 5500 Middelfart

Research in organic food and farming is an expanding discipline in Europe, and the European Union has financed a growing number of research projects in organic farming. In May 2006, researchers from at least ten EU-funded research projects in organic food and farming join the same congress and present their results. 
This PhD course will acquaint students with the latest results from research in organic agriculture, as PhD students will attend selected presentations at the congress and use the acquired knowledge to work out hypothesis on how organic farming and food production may contribute to rural development in Europe.

 

Planning team
Henning Høgh Jensen, KVL
Vibeke Langer, KVL
Egon Noe, DIAS
Marie Trydeman Knudsen, DIAS
Sofie Kobayashi, KVL

 

Preliminary course description

 

Programme for the intensive week (pdf)

 

Pre-course assignment
This will be in the form of a poster, which you should present at the course (not at the congress). You should present your perceptions and understanding of organic food and farming, rural development, and your own research in this context.

 

Guidelines for pre-course assignment (pdf).

 

Literature for the assignment

Darnhofer, I. 2005: Organic Farming and Rural Development: Some Evidence from Austria. Sociologica Ruralis, Vol. 45, No. 4, pp. 308-323. 

European Commission, 2004: The Common Agricultural Policy Explained. Directorate Genral for Agriculture. 

IFOAM, 2005: Principles of Organic Agriculture. 

Pugliese, P. 2001: Organic Farming and Sustainable Rural Development: A Multifaceted and Promising Convergence. Sociologica Ruralis, Vol. 41, No. 1, pp. 112-129. 

van Plough, J.D., A. Long and J. Banks, 2002: Rural development: The state of the art. In: Living Countrysides. Rural Development Processes in Europe: The State of the Art. Elsevier bedrijfsinfomatie, Doetinchem, The Netherlands, pp 8-17. 

 

Key-note Speakers
Dr. Nic Lampkin, Senior Lecturer, Director, Organic Centre Wales, Institute of Rural Studies
The University of Wales Aberystwyth, UK. www.irs.aber.ac.uk/research/expertise/nhl.shtml

Patrizia Pugliese, The Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Bari (MAIB), Italy

Dr. Karlheinz Knickel, Institute for Rural Development Research, Frankfurt, Germany. www.ifls.de (CV)
 

List of participants
Aida Stikliene, Lithuanian Agriculture University, Lithuania
Andreas Åkerström, SLU, Sweden
Daiva Sileikiene, Lithuanian Agriculture University, Lithuania 
Frederick Kwame Teye, Helsinki University, Finland
Gunta Grinberga, Latvia University of Agriculture, Latvia
Ingrid Bender, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Estonia
Jim Rasmussen, KVL, Denmark
Katrin Uurman, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Estonia
Kirstine Flintholm Jørgensen, DIAS, Denmark
Lina Šarunaite, Lithuanian Institute of Agriculture, Lithuania
Lone Hymøller, DIAS, Denmark
Malgorzata Szulc, IRMM, Belgium
Marie Trydeman Knudsen, DIAS, Denmark
Marie-Louise Risgaard, Denmark
Merete Møller Nielsen, KVL, Denmark
Mette Weinreich Hansen, Technical University of Denmark
Naja Steen Andersen, Risø/KVL, Denmark
Natalia Muguerza, KVL, Denmark
Nicolas Bastin, France
Rasa Valiukėnaitė, Lithuanian Veterinary Academy, Lithuania 
Sandra Burger, Austria
Skirmantě Balnytě, Lithuanian Agriculture University, Lithuania
Tairi Albert, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Estonia
Therese Sundberg, SLU Sweden
Tina Skau Nielsen, DIAS, Denmark
Viktoras Liorančas, Lithuanian Veterinary Academy, Lithuania
Zita Kriauciuniene, Lithuanian Agriculture University, Lithuania