Dear Jacky,

The word integrated biosystems covers more. It is almost identical with
socio-economic biotechnology and thus includes a bit of sociology. In other
words it covers the whole area of agriculture, eg multi-product formatoin
from crops, composting, anaerobic digestion, mushroom production,
everything except the dominant present system of monoculture.

Wherever you have the residue of one product converted into another
value-added product, that is 'integrated biosystem'. Some systems include
aquaculture, others do not. It all depends very much on the local and/or
regional condition.

Your idea of an IBS farm network sounds good, but please be careful of not
expanding the system so much that they are hopelessly overlapping. I always
thought IBS or integrated biosystem is heavily dependent on urban and rural
farming.

We could have too many discussion groups. Just my opinion.

Best regards
Horst