09.05.2014
Category: Organic
By: Jürn Sanders, Sanna Heinze

Pre-conference of the 18th IFOAM Organic World Congress: Understanding organic farming worldwide


agricultural experts

On October 12, 2014 the workshop "Understanding organic farming worldwide" will take place in Istanbul, prior to the IFOAM Organic World Congress. The aim of this workshop is to expand the organic expert network agri benchmark.

Organic farming has worldwide experienced a continuous growth in the last decade. At the same time, supply-chain processes have become more complex, diversified and are increasingly organized globally.

Against this background, detailed economic and technical information on organic production, processing and trade is needed at a global scale to understand the impact of major driving forces on organic farming and to provide relevant information for all actors who want to strengthen their position in a global agricultural economy. Currently, such information is rare.

For this reason, the Germany-based state research Institute of Farm Economics at the Thünen Institute and the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL, Switzerland) have started to build up the organic expert network agri benchmark as part of the existing agri benchmark project.

The agri benchmark Organic Network aims at establishing an international cooperation between scientists, advisors and farmers to compare and share information about typical organic farms with respect to production and production systems, ecological parameters, production costs, competitiveness and future development.

To disseminate the idea of the network,  interested experts (organic policy and sector experts, organic farm economists, etc.) are invited to a pre-conference of the 18th IFOAM Organic World Congress in Istanbul, to take place in October this year.

More information can be found on our Opens internal link in current windowbranch website

In order to register for the event, please use the Opens external link in new windowFiBL registration service

 


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