Resources
General resources
- FAO/UNEP Sustainable food systems program (www.fao.org/fileadmin/templates/ags/docs/SFCP/SustainableFoodSystemsProgramme.pdf)
- Nationwide organic farming programme of the German Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection (www.bundesprogramm-oekolandbau.de)
- CORE Organic is an international federation that brings together research in organic food and farming (www.coreorganic.org)
- FAO is the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (www.fao.org)
- IFOAM is the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (www.ifoam.org)
- The International Society of Organic Agriculture Research (ISOFAR) promotes and supports research in all areas of organic agriculture (www.isofar.org)
- The Technology Innovation Platform – IFOAM (TIPI) is the research network of IFOAM (International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements) and was set up by FiBL and other institutions (www.organic-research.net/1903.html)
- Food for Life is an European Technology Platform (etp.fooddrinkeurope.eu/asp/index.asp)
- Susfood is a European project involving research cooperation in sustainable food production and consumption (www.susfood-era.net)
- TP Food for Life is a European technology platform (http://etp.fooddrinkeurope.eu/)
- TP Organics is the technology platform for organic food and farming research (www.tporganics.eu)
- United Nations World Health Organization (www.who.int/en)
Position papers
- 26/01/2022
Organic processed food in Europe - 30/07/2019
How organic food systems support sustainability of diets - 29/07/2019
Organic Agriculture 3.0 is innovation with research - 26/07/2019
The Organic Food System Program (OFSP): Organic food systems as models and living laboratories for transformation processes towards sustainable food systems (Presentation) - 26/07/2019
The Organic Food System Program (OFSP): Organic food systems as models and living laboratories for transformation processes towards sustainable food systems (Proceedings) - 25/07/2019
Organic Food Systems: Do they produce healthy diets? (NJF Report, pp 28-29) - 24/07/2019
The example of the 10YFP-SFSP core initiative "Organic Food System Programme" - 23/07/2019
Research & Innovation for Sustainable Food and Farming - 22/07/2019
Research and Innovation for our future food systems - 01/01/2018
Kahl, J., Strassner, C. (2017) Es braucht eine ganzheitliche Perspektive. Ökologie und Landbau, 01/2017. - 20/11/2016
Learning from the organic food system as a model for sustainable food systems - the Organic Food System Program - 11/09/2015
How the organic food system supports sustainable diets and translates these into practice - 31/03/2014
Organic food processing: a framework for concept, starting definitions and evaluation - 31/03/2014
The influence of organic production on food quality – research findings, gaps and future challenges - 01/12/2012
The challenge of evaluating health effects of organic food; operationalisation of a dynamic concept of health - 17/10/2012
Functional Food and Organic Food are Competing Rather than Supporting Concepts in Europe - 09/03/2012
Organic food quality: a framework for concept, definition and evaluation from the European perspective - 01/12/2010
Organic food claims in Europe - 01/01/2009
Feeding trials in organic food quality and health research
Articles
- 30/07/2019
DAFA Forschungsstrategie "Ökologische Lebensmittelwirtschaft" - 29/07/2019
Towards A Common Food Policy for the European Union - 26/07/2019
The new Nordic diet as a prototype for regional sustainable diets (FAO/UNEP workshop, pp. 109–116) - 25/07/2019
The role of sustainable HORECA for sustainable lifestyles – identification of challenges and future work (FAO/UNEP workshop, pp. 245–262) - 21/01/2017
Analysis and valuation of the health and climate change cobenefits of dietary change - 21/01/2017
Organic agriculture in the twenty-first century - 21/01/2017
Assessment of the Sustainability of the Mediterranean Diet Combined with Organic Food Consumption: An Individual Behaviour Approach - 15/12/2015
Health and dietary traits of organic food consumers: results from the NutriNet-Santé study - 15/12/2015
Customers Purchasing Organic Food - Do They Live Healthier? Results of the German National Nutrition Survey II - 15/12/2015
Global diets link environmental sustainability and human health - 15/12/2015
Food choices for health and planet - 15/12/2015
Scope and precision of sustainability assessment approaches to food systems - 15/12/2015
Planetary boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet - 15/12/2015
Reduced risk of pre-eclampsia with organic vegetable consumption: results from the prospective Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study - 15/12/2015
Land-use intensity and the effects of organic farming on biodiversity: a hierarchical meta-analysis - 15/12/2015
Association Between Organic Dietary Choice During Pregnancy and Hypospadias in Offspring: A Study of Mothers of 306 Boys Operated on for Hypospadias - 15/05/2015
Sustainable Diets: Hairshirts or a better food future? - 30/07/2014
Food for thought - 30/07/2014
Higher antioxidant and lower cadmium concentrations and lower incidence of pesticide residues in organically grown crops: a systematic literature review and meta-analyses - 03/04/2014
A novel approach for differentiation of milk fractions and polyvinylpyrrolidone with different molecular weight by patterns derived from cupric chloride crystallization with additives - 31/03/2014
Discrimination of conventional and organic white cabbage from a long-term field trial study using untargeted LC-MS-based metabolomics - 30/11/2013
Are Organic Foods Safer or Healthier? - 30/11/2013
Methods for Comparing Data across Differently Designed Agronomic Studies: Examples of Different Meta-analysis Methods Used to Compare Relative Composition of Plant Foods Grown Using Organic or Conventional Production Methods and a Protocol for a Systematic Review - 31/10/2013
Analytical authentication of organic products: an overview of markers - 19/10/2013
Profile of organic consumers in France - 23/01/2013
Divergent Paradigms of European Agro-Food Innovation: The Knowledge-Based Bio-Economy (KBBE) as an R&D Agenda - 04/09/2012
Are Organic Foods Safer or Healthier Than Conventional Alternatives? - 19/03/2012
Comparison of nutritional quality between conventional and organic dairy products - 01/12/2011
Agroecosystem management and nutritional quality of plant foods: The case of organic fruits and vegetables - 26/07/2011
How should we define health? - 01/07/2011
Evaluation of the micronutrient composition of plant foods produced by organic and conventional agricultural methods - 01/07/2004
Health promoting compounds in vegetables and fruits: A systematic approach for identifying plant compounds with impact on human health - Prospective association between consumption frequency of organic food and body weight change, risk of overweight or obesity: results from the NutriNet-Santé Study
- Strategies for feeding the world more sustainably with organic agriculture()
- Human health implications of organic food and organic agriculture: a comprehensive review