3 February 1993 International Award for Lincoln Organics Pioneer

A Recognition Award from the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM) has been received by Lincoln University's Bob Crowder, a pioneering figure in the New Zealand organic husbandry movement.

The IFOAM award was presented to Mr Crowder in Theley, Germany, at a gathering attended by the German Minister for the Environment. It acknowledges his important contribution to IFOAM and its worldwide membership.

Mr Crowder, an IFOAM board member, was in Germany for the Bio/Fach International Organic Trade Fair, at Wiesbaden.

While overseas he attended the British Organic Conference at the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, giving a paper on aspects of organic husbandry in the Southern Hemisphere, then he went to the Californian Sustainable Agriculture Conference, in Monterey, California.

Mr Crowder said his visit to Europe and North America was "most enlightening" and that international developments in commercial organic agriculture were "tremendous".

Lincoln University will host IFOAM's international conference in 1994.

Ian Collins, Journalist, Lincoln University, Canterbury, New Zealand.