Scientific Congress on Organic Agricultural Research

Mission Statement

SCOAR is a collaboration of producers, scientists, and others. Its mission is to plan and promote research and information-exchange for understanding and improving organic agricultural systems.

Goals

1. Cultivate a peer-level process of mutual learning and democratic collaboration among a diverse community of organic farmers & ranchers, scientists, extensionists, consultants, consumers and others for pursuit of the project Mission.

2. Create a shared understanding of organic agriculture as an ecological approach to managing agricultural systems.

3. Identify and characterize research and information-exchange priorities pertaining to the Mission, through various activities and documentation of those activities.

4. Advance the state-of-the-art of organic systems research, including on-farm, participatory, whole systems, and multi-farm studies.

5. Increase access to the knowledge, skills, and practices of successful organic producers by developing and implementing models for networking and information sharing among organic producers and scientists.

6. Encourage the use and implementation of SCOAR's results.