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IOTA runs events and workshops for organic trainers and advisers.

Programmes and booking forms will be uploaded on this page as they become available. Please check back here for more information.

Reports and papers from previous IOTA workshops and conferences can be accessed here.

 

 

Training for trainers
Instructional Techniques four-day course run by AtLast. This widely recognised course provides good training in participative techniques and is the basic qualification for trainers.

For: anyone who wishes to learn training techniques and course planning or to instruct Lantra Awards Courses.

Date: Individuals may register on one of the ongoing programme of IT courses but if there is sufficient interest IOTA will organise a course specifically for organic specialists.

Details, costs and registration: AtLast, Daffodil House, 4 Welford Road Shirley, Solihull, West Midlands, B90 3HX.
Tel: 07867 908196

Contact Sarah Jameson, IOTA (iota@organicadvice.org.uk) or telephone 01547 528546 if you would like us to arrange a trainers course specifically for organic advisers.

Future IOTA courses
Priorities for future IOTA courses that have been identified by advisers and trainers are as follows:
Soil Analysis: Options and Interpretation
Soil Management
Co-ordination of Farmer/Adviser R&D
Animal Nutrition
Advising on Diversification and Processing
Environmental and Wildlife Information and Management