ISOFAR organizes and supports several scientific conferences, symposia, workshops and other events every year throughout the world. These events are organized with global partners, such as IFOAM Organic International, or local partners.
June 23-25, 2026
9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Ustica Island (Palermo), Italy
3d International Workshop “Resilient by Design: Organic Food & Farming Systems amid CAP Volatility- Science-Based Pathways for Climate, Nature, and Food”.
November 30 – December 6, 2024
Taiwan
ISOFAR supports the congress with scientific reviews of a selection of papers and presents awards for the best scientific poster
December 2, 2024
Taiwan
Prof. M. Reza Ardakani led a discussion on important challenges in organic food production from a multi-perspective view and tried to outline corresponding research solutions
December 1, 2024
Taiwan (hybrid)
Prof. Raffaele Zanoli and Prof. Daniel Neuhoff discuss on important challenges on how to construct a high-quality scientific paper from the introduction till the conclusions
November 30 – December 6, 2024
Taiwan (hybrid)
All ISOFAR members are invited to join the General Assembly and decide with their votes on important society issues. The General Assembly is not open for guests.
September 10-12, 2023
Xichong, China
ISOFAR Board members including Gerold Rahmann (Germany), Wahyudi David (Indonesia) and Mahesh Chander (India) participated as invited keynote speakers
September 9, 2023
Suzhou, China
IFOAM Asia and ISOFAR member Ji Li have organized an International Symposium on Organic Agricultural Innovation Research
September 3-6, 2023
Bayannur, China
ISOFAR Board members including Dr. Mahesh Chander (India), Prof. Khalid Sassi (Tunisia) and Assoc Prof. Dr. Wahyudi David (Indonesia) actively contributed to the conference
June 4-10, 2023
Kauswagan, Philippines
ISOFAR board members attended IFOAM Asia conference on the Philippines
March 8-10, 2023
Frick, Switzerland
The main German speaking event for Organic Farming Research; ISOFAR contributed with a poster award and financial support
January, 2023
Berlin, Germany
ISOFAR presented a study on the environmental and climate impacts of organic farming in comparison to conventional farming
October 1-3, 2022
Goesan, Korea
ISOFAR, as global and independent network of Organic Farming scientists is organizing the scientific workshops at the IFOAM Organic conference – who is celebration their 50th anniversary with the Expo
May 26-29, 2022
Izmir, Turkey
Professor Gerold Rahmann and 3 other ISOFAR board members included Dr. Mahesh Chander, Dr. Khalid Azim and Professor Reza Ardakani actively contributed in different sessions as invited speakers or panel moderators
November 23-27, 2021
Online
ISOFAR was partner of the 5th IAC, President Prof. Gerold Rahmann gave a speech on “Organic Farming – a global overview“
October 28-29, 2021
Yogjakarta, Indonesia
ISOFAR was partner of the event, President Prof. Gerold Rahmann gave a speech on “Organic farming in the context of climate change and vice versa”
October 13, 2021
Oosterwolde, Netherlands
The conference was intended for farmers, farm advisers, policy makers, students and educational institutions from the Netherlands and abroad, President Prof. Gerold Rahmann gave a speech
September 6-10, 2021
Rennes, France
The Forum invited researchers to share their work in the following five themes, with a special focus on interdisciplinary research, about 200 scientific papers have been accepted for presentation
September 7, 2021
Rennes, France (hybrid)
The previous board was released from duties and all participants gave big thanks to all of them for their volunteer work, the new board was elected and 12 candidates have been elected for the therm 2021-2024
April 16, 2021
Online
The free webinar hosted Robert Crystal-Ornelas, PhD, co-author of a recently-published paper that looks within organic management to quantify carbon sequestration of different practices used by farmers
February 1-5, 2021
Nigeria
The workshop covered topics such as ecological organic agriculture, soil fertility management, markets for sustainable food systems, and an overview of the KCOA platform
October 31, 2020
Online
Dr. Mahesh Chander, ISOFAR board member, has organized with his Indian friends an international scientific conference “Organic Farming Research, Technologies and Extension” at the Biofach 2020 in India
October 16, 2020
Online
ISOFAR was invited by the Network of Organic Agricultural Researchers in Africa to give a lesson about Organic Agricultural Research, President Prof. Dr. Gerold Rahmann gave a note about OA research in Germany
July 1, 2020
Online
This free webinar focused on how the benefits of biodiversity are affected by the farming landscape, hosted Amber Sciligo, David W. Crowder, and Olivia Smith
