2012
NOVA Ph.D.course: Sustainability assessment in farming and food systems – organic, conventional and beyond
In September, a SOAR- NOVA summer course with focus on sustainability assessments will be held. We will introduce theories and practices of assessing and improving the sustainability of today’s changing agricultural and food systems, and the course participants will discuss this as well as conceptual frameworks, principles and regulations influencing current agricultural and food system policies and their practical application. Read more...
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Previous thematic courses
2011
Course: System approachesto research and governance in organic agriculture & value-chains
4-9 September 2011
In September, SOAR organised a one-week course. The focus was on concepts and research methods, which is linked to organic food and farming system research.
The course is a collaboration with the East African focused research project named ProGrOV.
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Mitigating Climate Change
Course, 6th-10th June 2011
The thematic course 'Mitigating Climate Change’ will be held 6th-10th June 2011 in Denmark, with the aim to to stimulate the course participants to reflect upon their role as researchers in forming policies and strategies and influencing the way they are implemented in practice. Mette Vaarst is course responsible.
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2010
Farming and food systems as social ecological systems:
integrated assessment for resilience and adaptive capacity...
13-18 June 2010
Venue
Helsinki
Course responsible
Juha Helenius, Professor, Helsinki University
Course Teachers
Vibeke Langer, LIFE
Mette Vaarst, DJF/AU
Tor Arvid Breland, UMB
2009
Global Organic Food Chains - Agroecology, Environment and Livelihood
22-27 November 2009
Course responsible
Andreas de Neergaard, LIFE
Course teachers
Niels Halberg, ICROFS
Mette Vaarst, DJF/AU
Tor Arvid Breland, UMB Norway
Vibeke Langer, LIFE
Kathrine O'Doherty-Jensen, LIFE
Sander Bruun, LIFE
2008
Research Methodologies in Organic Food and Farming Research
2-7 November 2008
Course teachers
Professor Tor Arvid Breland, UMB, Norway
Senior scientist Charlotte Lagerberg Fogelberg, SLU, Sweden
Professor John R. Porter, LIFE/KU, Denmark
Keynote speakers
Senior scientist Mette Vaarst, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Aarhus University, Denmark
Senior lecturer Chris Blackmore, Open University, UK
Research director Henning Høgh Jensen, National Environment Research Institute, Denmark
2007
Scales and cross-scales in ecosystem services in agriculture and organic farming
27 May to 2 June 2007
Course responsible: Associate professor Lennart Salomonsson, SLU, Sweden
Course teachers
Professor John R. Porter, LIFE/KU, Denmark
Professor Jan Bengtsson, SLU, Sweden
Professor Juha Helenius, Helsinki University, Finland
Course description
Programme (pdf)
2006
Potential for Organic Farming to contribute to Rural Development in Europe
28 May - 2 June 2006
This course was held as a joint event with the Organic Congress in Odense
Course responsible: Associate professor Henning Høgh Jensen, KVL, Denmark
Course teachers
Associate professor Vibeke Langer, KVL, Denmark
Keynote speakers
Senior lecturer Nic Lampkin, Organic Centre Wales, Aberystwyth, UK
Dr. Patrizia Pugliese, Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Bari (MAIB), Italy
Dr. Karlheinz Knickel, Institute for Rural Development Research, Frankfurt, Germany
Course description
Evaluation
2005
Globalisation: Threat or Opportunity for Organic Farming?
3-7 October 2005
Course responsible: associate professor Henning Høgh Jensen
Course teachers
Henning Høgh Jensen, associate professor, head of SOAR, KVL
Katherine O’Doherty-Jensen, associate professor, KVL
Torbjörn Rydberg, associate professor, SLU, Sweden
Keynote Speakers
Lawrence Busch, Professor, Michigan State University, USA
Nadia Scialabba, UN Food and Agricultural Organisation, Rome, Italy
Lawrence Woodward, Elm Farm Research Institute, UK
Olof Thomsson, Biodynamic Research Institute, Sweden, BERAS project
Cathy Farnworth, Cornwall, UK
Chris Kjeldsen, Scientist, Danish Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Denmark
Michael Hauser, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria
Aileen Robertson, Public Health Nutritonist, Suhr's University College, Denmark
2004
Is Organic Farming the Key to Sustainability?
20-24 September 2004
Course responsible: Associate professor Vibeke Langer, KVL, Denmark
Course teachers
Associate professor Torbjörn Rydberg, SLU, Sweden
Associate professor Jesper Rasmussen, KVL, Denmark
Senior scientist Christian Gamborg, KVL, Denmark
Associate professor Niels Heine Kristensen, Technical University of Denmark
Senior scientist Niels Halberg, Danish Institute of Agricultural Sciences
Keynote speakers
Senior scientist Erik Steen Jensen, Risøe National Laboratoy, Denmark
Associate professor Alex Dubgaard, KVL, Denmark
Anders Borgen, Agrologica, Denmark
Senior scientist Hugo Fjelsted Alrøe, DARCOF, Denmark
Senior lecturer Stephen Roderick, Organic Studies Centre, Cornwall, UK
Associate professor Katherine O'Doherty Jensen, KVL, Denmark
2003
Values, ideology, science and organic farming
12-17 September 2003 in Falkenberg, Sweden
This course was held in connection with the Bertebos Conference: Ecosystem services in European agriculture - Theory and practice
Course responsible: Associate professor Jesper Rasmussen, KVL, Denmark
Course teachers
Associate professor Nadarajah Sriskandarajah, KVL, Denmark (now professor at SLU, Swden)
Associate professor Vibeke Langer, KVL, Denmark
Associate professor Roger Packham, University of Western Sydney, Australia
Keynote speakers
Reader John Barry, Queen's University, Belfast, UK
Associate professor Jesper Lassen, KVL, Denmark
2002
Research Methodologies in relation to Principles and Practice in Organic Farming
7-11 October 2002
Course responsible: Professor Stig Milan Thamsborg, KVL, Denmark
Guest teachers
Senior scientist Pernille Kaltoft, National Environment Research Institute, Denmark
Senior scientist Hugo Fjelsted Alrøe, DARCOF, Denmark
Professor Jacob Weiner, KVL, Denmark
Associate professor Jan Holm Ingemann, Aalborg University, Denmark
Research director Hans Siggaard Jensen, Learning Lab Denmark
Associate professor Nadarajah Sriskandarajah, KVL, Denmark
Associate professor Vibeke Langer, KVL, Denmark
Professor Peter Sandøe, KVL, Denmark
Excursion to farms
Øllingegaard, Morten Krohn
Hegnstrup, Allan Clausen
Fuglebjerggaard, Per Kølster |
