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The 3rd IFOAM Trade Symposium entitled "Finding the Competitive Advantage, A Challenge in these Uncertain Times" will feature experts in market research and retailers who will explore the impacts of the financial crisis on organic markets and highlight the attitudes of today’s consumers.
The full program of the Trade Symposium is available here.
BioFach, the World’s Biggest Organic Trade Fair, brings together about 2.500 exhibitors and 46.000 trade visitors from around 120 countries of the world to Nuremberg every year in February. IFOAM is proud to be a patron of BioFach.
The full program of IFOAM Events and Conferences at BioFach is available here.
Call for Nominations for the 'One World Award 2010' - New Deadline: February 15th, 2010 The One World Award (OWA) recognizes people who are committed to permanently protect and conserve this one world as the basis of existence for all people. The One World Award ceremony date is scheduled for 17 September 2010 as part of the Rapunzel festival in Legau, Germany, which will likely attract again over 20.000 visitors. More information about the One World Award is available here.
Here in Copenhagen IFOAM is raising awareness of the High Sequestration, Low Emission, Food Secure benefits of organic agriculture amongst national governments, NGOs and inter-governmental organizations. We are lobbying for the recognition of agriculture within the UN Convention and the Kyoto Protocol and working hard to ensure that the principles of ecology, fairness, care and health are included.
Fight poverty with Organic Agriculture! Starvation is not a question of world food production but of the poverty of the hungry. Most of them live in rural areas and, if not deprived of access to local natural resources, they could make their livelihoods with Organic Agriculture. World food security summit strategies in Rome ignore Organic Agriculture, even though J. Diouf, FAO Secretary General, admits that Organic Agriculture contributes to hunger and poverty alleviation and deserves promotion.
Putting the last first - The Organic Answer to Food Security for all, including the rural poor! On the occasion of the World Food Day, agro-industry proposes a second green revolution based on genetic engineering. This suits their interests but does not contribute to feeding the poor. Organic Agriculture based on its encouraging concepts, experience and examples proposes a paradigm-shift in food security policies to ensure that hunger is history by 2050.
2008 IFOAM Annual Report released We are proud to announce that the 2008 IFOAM Annual Report has been completed. The Report, boasting a new, enhanced design, not only provides an institutional overview of IFOAM in 2008, but it also illustrates the work that many hands – together – can achieve.
IFOAM Guide to Biodiversity and Landscape Quality in Organic Agriculture This guide is designed to provide practical working examples and suggestions for farmers and advisers who are aiming for real positive change on farmlands world wide. Proven innovations from a wide variety of farms, traditions and agro-ecological zones are described, along with the underlying ecological and agricultural principles that make them effective. The more we all understand of the potential benefits and synergies of enhanced biodiversity and landscape quality within any and all types of agriculture, the more effective and appropriate the solutions that arise in our own contexts will be. This Guide provides a start for that process on which we can build, within the traditions of Organic Agriculture, but applicable for all rural land use.
Organic Agriculture and Women’s Empowerment It is IFOAM’s goal to facilitate equal participation of women in the Organic Agriculture movement. In this context, a new IFOAM study investigates the ways in which OA can contribute to the empowerment of rural women, and identifies “lessons learned” for future work on the basis of a collection of analytical case studies from around the world.
Building Sustainable Organic Sectors The objective of this study as formulated by IFOAM is to give guidance for the development of dynamic organic sectors, with a focus on developing countries. The report includes ten country case studies of which five are from developing economies, two from emerging economies or economies in transition, and three are from more developed economies. Based on the case studies and other experience, recommendations are made.
The World of Organic Agriculture 2009 The 10th edition of ‘The World of Organic Agriculture’ documents
recent developments in global organic agriculture. It includes
contributions from representatives of the organic sector from
throughout the world and provides comprehensive organic
farming statistics that cover surface area under organic management,
numbers of farms and specific information about land use
in organic systems.
The book also contains information on the global market for
organic food, activities of UN organizations, the latest developments
in organic certification, standards and regulations and
insights into current status and emerging trends for organic agriculture
by geographical region.
The latest data are presented annually at BioFach in Nürnberg, Germany
2010: 17 - 20 February.
