Andre Leu, IFOAM President (left), with Zambia’s First Republican President Kenneth Kaunda, patron of Organic Producers and Processers Association of Zambia (OPPAZ). THE world trade fair, BioFach, has a very important role in the global organic sector, according to one of the event’s major sponsors, IFOAM (the International Federation of Organic Agricultural Movements) president Andre …. more
Graeme Sait, (right), visited a massive enterprise in South Africa that produces 45 per cent of South Africa’s tomatoes on over 2,000 hectares. Biological agriculture has often been seen as a middle ground between chemical agriculture and certified organics but it is rapidly proving to be a force within itself. IN the following interview Acres Australia …. more
THOUSANDS of organic traders and organic farming experts from around the world took part in the Kingdom of Jordan’s first Natural and Organic Products Exhibition and Conference in Amman in May, 2012. The four-day conference, under the patronage of the Kingdom of Jordan’s royal family, showcased the growing organic agricultural industry in the Middle East and …. more
ABOVE: IFOAM President Andre Leu, second from left, with conference delegates at the ‘Mainstreaming Organic Agriculture into the African Development Agenda’. Photo Courtesy of UNCTARD AFRICA’S organic agricultural future was under the spotlight at the 2nd African Organic Conference in Lusaka, Zambia last year, with attendees lobbying for greater government support of the industry and the …. more
SMALL-SCALE farmers are still the backbone of agricultural production in Africa. Some 80 per cent of rural African people depend on smallholder agriculture to improve their livelihood. Agricultural quality and productivity has remained largely low due to bad farming practices that have damaged the health and fertility of Africa’s soil. With little access to organic fertilisers, …. more
Bhutan, landlocked between India and China, is just 38,394 sq km in size. Photos: Andre Leu. THE Kingdom of Bhutan, in the eastern Himalayas, is on track to develop a 100 per cent organic sustainable agriculture industry to boost the country’s economy and food security, and relieve rural poverty. In the past few years, the …. more