Updated: 25 May 1994
Sponsored by the Sustainable Agriculture Network & the Alternative
Farming Systems Information Center
If you would like us to include your events please send
the event name, place, contact, and sponsor, to Alternative Farming
Systems Information Center, ATTN: SAN/AFSIC Calendar, Room 304,
National Agricultural Library, 10301 Baltimore Boulevard,
Beltsville, Maryland 20705-2351. FAX: (301) 504-6409.
INTERNET: ghegyes@nalusda.gov
* Events added since last edition
1994
June 5-8, 1994
Event: International Symposium: ENVIRONMENTAL AGRICULTURE-
towards 2000 (ISEAT-2000)
Place: Queensland, Australia
Contact: ISEAT Symposium Secretariat, National Australia Travel
LtdPO Box 9909 Brisbane, Queensland Australia. Phone:
+61 75 390333. FAX: +61 75 390195. Email to Andrew
Campbell, Convening Committee, acampbell@peg.apc.org
June 7-10, 1994
Event: Society & Resource Management: The Fifth International
Symposium on Society and Resource Management
Place: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado
Contact: Jennifer Pate, Symposium Coordinator, at:
(303) 491-2077.
June 9-12, 1994
Event: A Conference on Cuisine, Agriculture, and Social Change
Place: Westward Look Resort, Tucson, Arizona
Contact: Ann Tinsley, Dept. of Nutritional
Sciences, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson AZ 85721
Sponsor: The Agriculture, Food and Human Values
Society and the Association for the Study of Food and
Society
June 11, 1994
*Event: 1994 Kerr Field Day
Place: Rock Creek Farm and the Kerr Horticulture Farm,
Poteau, Oklahoma
Contact: Lara Ervin, The Kerr Center, PO Box 588,
Poteau, OK 74953. Phone: (918) 647-9123.
Sponsor: Kerr Center for Sustainable Agriculture
June 12-15, 1994
*Event: "Global Strategies for Environmental Issues"
Place: New Orleans, Louisiana
Contact: NAEP, 5165 MacArthur Blvd., NW, Washington, DC 20016.
Phone: (202) 966-1500.
Sponsor: National Association of Environmental Professionals
June 17-19, 1994
*Event: The Fifth Annual Midwest Renewable Energy Fair
Place: Portage County Fairgrounds, Amherst, Wisconsin
Contact: MREA, PO Box 249, Amherst, WI 54406.
June 18, 1994
*Event: Summer Solstice with Trauger Groh, co-author of "Farms of
Tomorrow: Community-Supported Farms and Farm Supported
Communities"
Contact: Anne Stack, Genesis Farm, 41A Silver Lake Road,
Blairstown, NJ 07825. Phone: (908) 362-6737.
June 19-23, 1994
Event: 1st International Symposium on Ecosystem Health &
Medicine: Integrating Science, Policy and Management
Place: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Contact: Office of Continuing Education, 159 Johnston Hall,
University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada N1G2W1.
Phone: (519) 767-5000. FAX: (519) 767-0758.
Internet: cpartlan@oac.uoguelph.ca
June 20-25, 1994
*Event: Sustaining the Earth Summit
Place: University of Minnesota, West Bank Campus,
Minneapolis, MN
Contact: Terry Gips, IASA, 1701 University Avenue, SE,
Minneapolis, MN 55414-2076. Phone: (612) 331-1099.
FAX: (612) 379-1527. Internet: iasa@ipc.apc.org
Sponsor: International Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture (IASA)
June 27-August 18, 1994
*Event: "Introduction to Sustainable Agricultural Systems"
Place: University of California-Davis
Contact: Mark Van Horn, Student Experiment Farm, Department of
Agronomy, University of California, Davis, CA 95616.
Phone: (916) 752-7645.
July 9-22, 1994
Event: Sustainable Development for the World:
A 14-day intensive course in the Mexican Tropical
Highlands
Place: Mountains of Tlaxcala.
Contact: Ianto Evans or Michael Smith, Zopilote Association,
Box 123, Cottage Grove, OR 97424. (503) 942-3021.
Sponsor: Zopilote Association
July 24, 1994
*Event: Maryland Organic Food and Farming Association, Inc.,
Summer Social
Place: Koinonia Farm, 1400 Greenspring Valley Rd., Stevenson, MD
Contact: MOFFA, 6201 Harley Road, Middletown, MD 21769.
Phone: (301) 371-4814.
July 26-29, 1994
*Event: Leafy Spurge Symposium--1994
Place: Bozeman, Montana
Contact: Neal Spenser, (406) 482-2020 or Janet Petroff,
(406) 586-0831
August 5-7, 1994
Event: 20th Annual NOFA Summer Conference and Celebration of
Rural Life
Place: Hampshire College, Amherst, MA
Contact: Julie Rawson, 411 Sheldon Road, Barre, MA 01005.
(508) 355-2853.
August 4, 1994
*Event: Fourth Annual Conference of the Leopold Center for
Sustainable Agriculture
Place: Scheman Continuing Education Building, Iowa State
University, Ames, Iowa
Contact: Leopold Center, 126 Soil Tilth Building, Iowa State
University, Ames, IA 50011-3120. Phone: (515) 294-3711
Sponsor: Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture
August 7-10, 1994
Event: "Agroforestry and Sustainable Systems"
Place: Fort Collins, Colorado
Contact: Kim Isaacson, Center for Semiarid Agroforestry, Rocky
Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station, UNL East
Campus, Lincoln, NE 68583-0822. (402) 437-5178.
August 7-9, 1994
*Event: "Catch the Conservation Wave," the 49th annual meeting
and expo of the Soil and Water Conservation Society
Place: Waterside Convention Center, Norfolk, Virginia
Contact: Call 1-800-THE-SOIL
Sponsor: The Soil and Water Conservation Society
August 18-20, 1994
Event: WRCC-67 Sustainable Agriculture meeting for the Western
Region.
Place: Cheyenne, WY.
Contact: David Granatstein, Washington State University, at
(509) 663-8181 x.222.
August 13-21, 1994
Event: International Conference on Organic and Sustainable
Agriculture
Place: Beijing Agricultural University, Beijing, Peoples'
Republic of China
Contact: Mike Rennekar, Director, Agriculture Programs, Citizen
Ambassador Program, Dwight D. Eisenhower Building,
Spokane, WA 99202. Phone: (509) 534-0430.
FAX: (509) 534-5245.
September 6-8, 1994
Event: Second National Symposium, "Allelopathy in Sustainable
Agriculture, Forestry and Environment"
Place: J. N. Vyas University, Jodhpur-342 001, Rajasthan,
India
Contact: Dr. Shamsher S. Narwal, Organizing Secretary,
Department of Agronomy, CCS Haryana Agriculture
University, Hisar-125 004, Haryana, India.
Phone: 91-1662-73721, ext. 4268. FAX: 91-1662-73552.
Sponsor: Indian Society of Allelopathy
September 17, 1994
*Event: Maryland Organic Food and Farming Association (MOFFA)
Fall Field Day
Place: Accokeek Foundation Farm and Colonial Garden
Contact: Skip Kaufman, Accokeek Foundation Farm and Colonial
Garden, 3400 Bryan Point Road, Accokeek, MD.
Phone: (301) 283-2113.
September 18-21, 1994
*Event: Sustainability of Range Livestock Production Systems in
the West
Place: Billings, Montana
Contact: Jack Riesselman, 525 Leon Johnson, Montana State
University, Bozeman, MT 59717. Phone: (406) 994-5149.
September 18, 1994
Event: New Jersey's Third Organic County Fair
Place: Pennington, New Jersey
Contact: (609) 737-6848
Sponsor: Northeast Organic Farming Association
October 13-17, 1994
Event: Seeds of Hope: The Arctic to Amazonia Congress on
Community and Sustainable Forestry
Contact: Erik van Lennep, email: arc2amaz@igc.apc.org.
October 23-31, 1994
*Event: 1994 International Sustainable Agriculture and Food
Security Week.
Place: Washington, DC
Contact: Thomas Forster, NGO Working Group on Sustainable
Agriculture. Phone: (808) 737-0300. Internet:
tforster@igc.apc.org. Or Linda Elswick, WSAA, 1331
Pennsylvania Ave, NW, Suite 907 North, Washington, DC
20004. Phone: (202) 347-0637.
Internet: wsaa@igc.apc.org
November 7-10, 1994
*Event: "Conservation and Equitable Growth: The Challenge for
Farming Systems." Asian Farming Systems Symposium, 1994
Place: Manila, The Philippines
Contact: Symposium Coordinator, AFSS, PO Box 70, Peradeniya, Sri
Lanka. Phone: +94 (8) 88081/88206.
FAX: +94 (8) 32817/88206/32517.
November 11-13, 1994
*Event: "Telling the Story: Celebrating Tilth's First Twenty
Years"
Place: Edgefield Manor, near Portland, Oregon
Contact: Tilth's 20th Anniversary, PO Box 3588,
Portland, OR 97208. Phone: (503) 285-8279.
November 12, 1994
*Event: Maryland Organic Food and Farming Association (MOFFA)
Annual Meeting
Place: MDA Headquarters Bldg., Annapolis, MD
Contact: MOFFA, 6201 Harley Road, Middletown, MD 21769.
Phone: (301) 371-4814.
November 21-25, 1994
Event: Systems-Oriented Research in Agriculture and Rural
Development
Place: Montpellier, France
Contact: Ms. Ann Lichens-Park, NBAP. Phone: (202) 401-4892.
FAX: (202) 401-4888. OR Ms. Anne-Marie Seng-Sourinho,
Direction Scientifique, CIRAD-SAR. Phone: 67617185.
FAX: 67617186.
November/December 1994
Event: 3rd International Course on Fodder Tree
Legumes-Multipurpose Species for Agriculture
Place: Queensland, Australia
Contact: Dr. R.C. Gutteridge or Dr. H.M. Shelton, Fodder Tree
Legumes, Department of Agriculture, University of
Queensland, Queensland, 4072 Australia.
Phone: (61-7) 365-2062. FAX: (61-7) 365-1188.
Sponsor: Department of Agriculture, The University of
Queensland.
December 11-16, 1994
Event: 10th International Organic Agriculture IFOAM Conference
Place: Lincoln University, Canterbury, New Zealand
Contact: IFOAM Conference, Centre for Continuing Education,
PO Box 84, Lincoln University, Canterbury, New Zealand.
Phone: (64) (3) 325-2811. FAX: (64) (3) 325-2944.
1995
June 11-14, 1995
Event: "Sustainable Aquaculture, '95"
Place: Ilikai Hotel, Honolulu, Hawaii
Contact: Narendra Saxena. Phone: (808) 956-6163.
FAX: (808) 956-2580.
Internet: saxena@wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu
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APPENDIX
Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program
Regional Research Grants Schedules
The Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE)
program is a continuation of what was formerly known as LISA.
Grants are awarded on a competitive basis for research and
educational projects in sustainable agriculture.
Administration of the program takes place through four
regional centers, each of which has a separate schedule for
its call for proposals and other deadlines. The schedules
will be included in this calendar as they become available.
Following are the addresses of the Regional centers:
North Central Region Western Region (After March 1,
1994)
Steve Waller, Coordinator Phil Rassmussen, Coordinator
Agriculture Hall Ag Systems Technology
Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln Utah State University
Lincoln, NE 68583-0704 Logan, UT 84322-2300
(402) 472-2973 (801) 750-2230
Internet: agdn009@unlv.unl.edu Internet: soilcomp@cc.usu.edu
Northeast Region Southern Region
Frederick R. Magdoff, Gerald F. Arkin, Coordinator
Coordinator Agriculture Experiment Station
Dept. of Plant & Soil Griffen, GA 30223-1797
Science (404) 228-7263
University of Vermont Internet:dirgrf@gaes.griffin.
Burlington, VT 05405 peachnet.edu
(802) 656-2630
Internet: bholtzma@moose.uvm.edu
NORTH CENTRAL REGION
November 18-20, 1993: Combined Administrative
Council/Technical Committee meeting,
St. Louis, MO
November 25, 1993: Invitation to submit full proposal
January 17, 1994: Deadline for receiving full proposal
February 1, 1994 Producer-Initiated Grant Applications
Available
March 7-11, 1994: Combined Administrative
Council/Technical Committee meets to
evaluate proposals
May 1, 1994 Producer-Initiated Grant Applications
Due. No FAXed applications accepted.
WESTERN REGION
January 25-26,1994 Technical Review Panel to meet
March 3-4, 1994 Administrative Council to meet
August 22 -26, 1994 Strategic Planning Meeting
NORTHEAST REGION
Proposed Schedule for FY 1994
Early October 1993 Request for Proposals sent to people
interested in the SARE Program
January 19, 1994 Deadline for submitting proposals to
the regional coordinator's office
January 26, 1994 Deadline for submitting Farmer/Grower
proposals to regional coordinator's
office
March 19-22, 1994 Technical committee meets to evaluate
proposals for recommendation to the
administrative council
March 22-23, 1994 Administrative council meets to
consider recommended projects and
allocate funds
Early April, 1994 Grant applicants will be notified about
funding decisions
SOUTHERN REGION
January 31-
February 4, 1994 Administrative Council and Technical
Committee Meetings
February Notification of status of proposals and
producer initiated grants
February Initiate negotiation with project
coordinators of successful proposals
March, 1994 Newsletter
Develop Plan of Work for submission to
USDA-CSRS and EPA
Release Call for Proposal for Regional
Training Consortium/Network
Release Call for Proposal for Regional
Training Projects
April, 1994 Submit Plan of Work to USDA-CSRS and
EPA.
April, 1994 UGA issue subcontracts to project
coordinators
May Regional Training Consortium/Network
proposal due.
Regional Training Projects proposal due.
June 13-15, 1994 Regional Administrative Council Meeting
June, 1994 Newsletter
Release 1995 Call for SARE/ACE
Preproposal
August, 1994 SARE/ACE Preproposals due at the Host
Consortium
September, 1994 Invitation for full SARE/ACE Proposal
October, 1994 Newsletter
Release Call for Producer-Initiated
Grants
December, 1994 Full Proposal due at the Host Consortium
Producer-Initiated Grants due at Host
Consortium