The International Centre for Research in Organic Food Systems (ICROFS) is a centre where the research is performed in interdisciplinary collaboration between research groups in different institutions and universities. The centre is an expansion of the former research centre DARCOF, which the Danish Government in 2008 decided to give an international mandate and an international board. International Centre for Research in Organic Food Systems, ICROFS, was founded in 2008 with the objective to provide the overall framework for international research in organic food and farming systems. ICROFS has an ambitious vision for the future and has set itself a "Big Hairy Audacious Goal." The so-called BHAG of ICROFS is that: "the principles of organic agriculture have become a global reference for sustainability in agriculture and food systems due to evidence based on research and adaptive management." The main purpose of ICROFS is to initiate, coordinate and monitor high quality research of international standard in organic food and farming systems. Further, the aim of ICROFS is to stimulate international and transnational research and secure impact of the research results through support and dissemination in order to achieve optimum benefit from the allocated resources.