The research interests of SOAR cover a wide range of subjects within organic agriculture and food systems:

• Farming system research
• Crop production
• Resource management
• Ecosystem services
• Climate change mitigation and adaptation
• Livestock production
• Animal health and welfare
• Consumer and citizens’ involvement
• Regulations and policies
• Food chains
• Food sovereignty

Previous SOAR documents:

Annual reports...

Co-operation agreement...

SOAR is organised with a Steering Committee, a Head of School, a secretariat and a Scientific Panel.

• LIFE, University of Copenhagen
• The Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Aarhus University (DJF)
• The International Centre for Research in Organic Food Systems

The role of these are:

The Steering Committee

The Steering Committee is formed by one member from each of the three core partner institutions: LIFE; DJF and ICROFS. The Steering Committee members constitute themselves and appoint a chairman for a 3-year-period and have meetings at least every half year plus communicate when relevant for making decisions and approve budgets, activities, collaboration partners and accounts. They also appoint the Head of SOAR for a 3-year-period, and approve members for a Scientific Panel.

The three collaborating partners has entered into a Collaboration Agreement.

Go to Scientific Panel...

Go to Secretariat...

SOAR is a research school. In addition to the focus on PhD students, SOAR also includes graduates, postdocs and supervisors in the activities and networks. This is important because they also constitute the research environment, in which the PhD student is under education. SOAR wants to contribute to the professional discussions with a special focus on the organic food and farming systems.