Organic Agriculture

Organic Agriculture (OA) offers a range of environmental, social and economic benefits for developing countries.

On the economic side, growing world markets for OA products offer interesting export opportunities for developing countries who may have some comparative advantage in OA due to relatively abundant labour and lower use of agrochemicals.

In addition, OA production has been shown to have a positive effect on the local environment, biodiversity and soil fertility, and has the potential to increase the yields and incomes of subsistence farmers in developing countries who are not currently using agrochemicals, thus contributing to poverty reduction and sustainable rural development.

The CBTF supports interested countries through country projects and thematic research studies aimed at developing win-win policy options through promoting OA and easing access of organic products in overseas markets.

OA projects

Promoting Production and Trading Opportunities for Organic Agricultural Products in East Africa

OA events

OA materials

	Date	Title of OA material	Author	Handout	Ppt	Study
	08 September 2010	Selection criteria for sector	.
	08 September 2010	BioTrade Mandate	.
	08 September 2010	Agenda	.
	08 September 2010	Biodiversity and GTZ Headquarters	GTZ
	08 September 2010	The Green Economy Initiative	CBTF
	08 September 2010	Inclusive Development of the Economy (INCLUDE)	GTZ
	08 September 2010	Organic and Biodiversity Products. Raising rural income, generating environmental benefits	ITC
	08 September 2010	Workshop Report	.
	08 September 2010	Agenda	.
	08 September 2010	Capacity Building for BioTrade and Peru Diverso	.
	08 September 2010	Summary of discussions	.
	08 September 2010	Advisory Mission Nepal	.
	16 December 2009	Agenda (training)	.
	16 December 2009	National Organic Agriculture Development Pprogramme -NOADP	NOADP
	16 December 2009	OA Status and Developments	.
	16 December 2009	International Centre for Research in Organic Food Systems	Lise Andreasen
	16 December 2009	Agenda	.
	16 December 2009	Agenda	.
	15 December 2009	Report	.
	15 December 2009	Outcome. Policy recommendations for the organic sector in Ethiopia	.
	15 December 2009	Report	.
	15 December 2009	Agenda	.
	07 July 2009	Making a link between Biogas and organic argiculture in Africa	NDBP Rwanda
	07 July 2009	Impact of PGS, Farm Adoption of ICS and Group Marketing on Household Income	NOGAMU
	07 July 2009	Organic Agriculture and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)	IFOAM
	07 July 2009	The Role of Organic Agriculture in combating Climate Change	Boku
	07 July 2009	Contribution of contribution of organic agriculture to organic agriculture to improving household improving household incomes	Egerton Egerton University, Kenya
	07 July 2009	Developing Sound Organic Markets: The Kenyan Case Study	KOAN
	07 July 2009	The East African organic product standard-EAS 456:2007	RSTWG
	07 July 2009	Sustainable Organic Agriculture: Win-win Measures for Climate Change and Food Security	Third World Network
	07 July 2009	Organic farming in Africa between global food markets and food sovereignty	vTI
	07 July 2009	Best Practices for Organic for Organic Policy	UNCTAD
	07 July 2009	Current organic markettrends and emerging policy environment impact on meeting Millenium Development Goals (MDGs)	Agro Eco Louis Bolk Inst.
	07 July 2009	Challenges in meeting European consumer demands for organic productsfrom Africa	ICROFS
	25 June 2009	Biotechnology in Organic Agriculture in Africa: a myth or an over sight	Sssekyewa and Muwanga
	25 June 2009	Antimicrobial properties of some plant extracts on organisms associated with fish spoilage	University of Agriculture, Nigeria
	25 June 2009	Opportunities for Utilising Biological Control in Organic Farming in Africa	Agro Eco Louis Bolk Institute
	25 June 2009	Potential and home made bio-pesticides for African Organic Agriculture	Neuhoff & Mekuria Tadesse
	25 June 2009	Community seed production for the organic farming system in Zambia	Lubozhya
	25 June 2009	Relationship between the rich biodiversity in organic farming and best conservation practices	AdeOluwa, University of Ibadan
	25 June 2009	Practical, sustainable & economical implementation of bio technology in organic agriculture	FITOTEC
	25 June 2009	Sesame: the underexploited organic oilseed crop, Abstract	UNAAB
	25 June 2009	Organic agriculture research needs in Africa: a case of Uganda	.
	25 June 2009	Long-term farming systems comparisons in the tropics: First results from Kenya	FiBL
	25 June 2009	Indigenous biodiversity as a potential source of crops for future satisfaction of consumer demand	Ugent
	25 June 2009	Review of national and zonal cgs guidelines	Magyembe, CGS
	25 June 2009	Antimicrobial properties of some plant extracts on organisms associated with fish spoilage, Abstract	University of Agriculture, Nigeria
	25 June 2009	Is Organic Farming an Unjustified Luxury in a World With Too Many Hungry People?	ICROFS
	25 June 2009	Sesame: the underexploited organic oilseed crop	UNAAB
	25 June 2009	Competitive grant scheme workshop initial observations on national and zonal cgs guidelines	Dan Kitone, CGS
	25 June 2009	Exploiting the Potential of Organic agriculture: Adoption of Agro-ecological Methods and Needs for Future Adaptation and Development	Juma
	25 June 2009	Exploiting the potential of OA: The balance between export oriented and diversified farming for food security	Charles Walaga, UgoCert
	25 June 2009	Research in Organic Agriculture: essential for successful system management and technological evolution	University of Bonn
	25 June 2009	Hands-on electronic library For practitioners of sustainable agriculture in Africa	Infonet Biovision
	25 June 2009	Quality Systems Approach to Organic Production	Andre Leu Chair
	25 June 2009	Post harvest handling and export market quality issues for organic products in Africa	Agro Eco – Louis Bolk Institute
	16 June 2009	Wildlife Trade Policy Reviews: Synthesis Report	Secretariat
	29 May 2009	4 – Standards and Certification	Group 4
	29 May 2009	East African Organic Conference	Secretariat
	29 May 2009	The East African organic product standard- EAS 456:2007	RSTWG
	29 May 2009	Current Status of Organic Agriculture in Uganda	Nogamu
	29 May 2009	Burundi: Update of the Organic Agriculture.	SIBOMANA and RURACENYEKA
	29 May 2009	Government action and lobbying	Group 1
	29 May 2009	Country Updates: Kenya	National Coordinator Kenya Organic Agriculture Network (KOAN)
	29 May 2009	Marketing Organic Produce	Group 3
	29 May 2009	Organic Agriculture Sector Organic Agriculture Sector Development In Ethiopia	Addisu Alemayheu
	29 May 2009	An overview on organic agriculture organic agriculture law of Ethiopia	Ethiopia MOARD
	29 May 2009	Organic Standards in East Africa	Kilimohai
	29 May 2009	Organic sector development	TOAM
	29 May 2009	Organic Sector Promotion	Group 2
	13 May 2009	Main conference agenda	.
	13 May 2009	Agenda (day 1)	.
	13 May 2009	A short description of the African Organic Conference 2009	.
	04 December 2008	Brochure	.
	24 September 2008	List of participants	Secretariat
	24 September 2008	Summary	Secretariat
	24 September 2008	International Task Force on Harmonisation and Equivalence in Organic Agriculture (ITF)	Secretariat
	24 September 2008	UNEP-UNCTAD CBTF: Promoting Production and Trading Opportunities for Organic Agricultural Products	Secretariat
	24 September 2008	Opening Remarks made by Mrs. Lakshmi Puri, Acting Deputy Secretary-General of UNCTAD	Secretariat
	17 December 2007	Workshop Proceedings Report	Secretariat
	31 October 2007	Final report	Secretariat
	09 October 2007	Opening Statement by Ambassador Eckart Guth, Permanent Delegation of the European Commission	.
	09 October 2007	Opening Statement by Ms. Katharina Kummer Peiry, Executive Secretary, Secretariat of the Basel Convention/UNEP	.
	08 October 2007	Concluding Remarks	Secretariat
	08 October 2007	List of participants	Secretariat
	08 October 2007	Opening Statement by Mr. Paulo De Mesquita, Minister Counsellor of the Permanent Mission of Brazil	.
	08 October 2007	Opening Remarks made by, Mr. Harsha V. Singh, Deputy Director-General, WTO	.
	04 October 2007	Opening Remarks made by Mrs. Lakshmi Puri, Acting Deputy Secretary-General of UNCTAD	Secretariat
	04 October 2007	Opening Remarks made by Mr. Shafqat Kakakhel, Deputy Executive Director of UNEP	Secretariat
	03 October 2007	Session I - Organic Production and Trade: Contributions, opportunities, challenges and constraints	Ms Echeverría
	03 October 2007	Session II - Electric and electronic goods in Thailand: adjusting to environmental directives	Mr C Hengrasmee
	03 October 2007	Session II - Main Concerns & Key Challenges facing Developing Countries: Focus on the Situation in India	Mr R Goel
	03 October 2007	Session II - EU developments in the sector of electrical and electronic equipment	Mr Kurt van der Herten
	03 October 2007	Session I - Organic Production in Rwanda	Mr George Kayonga
	03 October 2007	Session I - Development of the East African Organic Products Standards: Unfolding trading opportunities within and out side the region	Mr Musa.K. Muwanga
	01 October 2007	Final Agenda	Secretariat
	01 October 2007	Sector Background Note – Electrical and Electronic Equipment	.
	01 October 2007	Sector Background Note – Organic Agriculture	.
	17 September 2007	Leaflet	Secretariat
	04 June 2007	Organic Agricultural Development In Uganda	Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries
	04 June 2007	A Consumer Survey of Attitudes and Preferences Towards Organic Foods	Samuel K. Ndungu, KOAN
	04 June 2007	The East African organic product standard- EAS 456:2007 Process of development	Msaki, Tanzania Bureau of Standards
	04 June 2007	East African Community Standardisation Process	Manyindo, Uganda National Bureau of Standards
	04 June 2007	The East African organic product standard- EAS 456:2007 Use and content	Kiarii, KOAN
	04 June 2007	Organic Agricultural Development In Uganda	Opolot, Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries
	04 June 2007	Kenya Organic Agriculture Paper	.
	04 June 2007	Facilitating Small-holder Farmers to Access Markets Case Study, Kenya	KOAN
	04 June 2007	Launching of the East African Organic Standard and Mark	.
	04 June 2007	Household Food Security Effects of Organic Export Production a gendered analysis	Danish Institute for International Studies
	04 June 2007	Global Market Trends for Organic Products	Kasterine, International Trade Centre
	04 June 2007	International Organic Outlook	Caudle. IFOAM
	04 June 2007	Summary of the International Conference on Organic Agriculture (OA) and Food Security	Bouagnimbeck, IFOAM
	04 June 2007	Organic Production in Rwanda	Kalibata, Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Resources
	04 June 2007	Organizing smallholder supply chains for Allanblackia markets	FAIDA
	04 June 2007	Contract Farming - A framework to link smallholder farmers to markets	Edmond Ringo, Matchmakers
	04 June 2007	Certification: how it works in reality	Leonard Mtama, TanCert
	04 June 2007	ICS Experience for Smallholder Farmer Groups	Gabriel Lyatuu, KNCU
	04 June 2007	Internal Control System (ICS)	Ray Mjunguli, Agro Eco Tz
	04 June 2007	The relationships among quality assurance systems	Mattsson, Grolink
	04 June 2007	Bonde la Chemchem Sabuko in Siha Kilimanjaro.	Ng'maryo
	04 June 2007	UCHUMI supermarkets	Peter Nderu, UCHUMI
	04 June 2007	Local Organic marketing in Uganda	Moses. K. Muwanga, NOGAMU
	04 June 2007	Organic Markets in Africa	Gunnar Rundgren, IFOAM
	04 June 2007	Agenda 30-31 May	Secretariat
	04 June 2007	Organic Agriculture in Sudan	Adam, Ministry of Agriculture and Forests
	04 June 2007	Capacity Building Study 3: Organic Agriculture and Food Security in East Africa	Rachel Hine and Jules Pretty
	04 June 2007	Organising Smallholder Supply Chain For Local Markets	Ministry of Agriculture, Tanzania
	04 June 2007	Improving Market Access For Drylands Commodities	Drylands Development Centre
	04 June 2007	Organic Agriculture and Food Security in East Africa	Hine and Pretty, University of Essex
	04 June 2007	Process and Recommendations of IAP - Kenya	Oyare, Bridge Africa
	04 June 2007	The Role Of EAC And Bureaus Of Standards In Standardization Of OA	East African Community Secretariat
	04 June 2007	Co-operating in partnership for strengthening organic agriculture and reducing poverty	Aigelsperger
	04 June 2007	Development Options for the Emerging Organic Sectors	Boor, IFOAM
	04 June 2007	Perspectives on Organic Agriculture Development in Uganda	Muwanga
	04 June 2007	Scaling up Organic Agriculture Production and Trade Recommendations	.
	04 June 2007	Implementation Plan for Kenya	.
	04 June 2007	Moving the Organic Agenda Ahead in Ghana	Monney, Ministry of Food and Agriculture
	04 June 2007	SWOT Analysis Of Organic Agriculture In Other African Countries	Group 4
	04 June 2007	Organic Agriculture in Sudan	.
	04 June 2007	The Tanzania Integrated Assessment	Shechambo, Envirocare
	04 June 2007	Organic agriculture in Uganda	Dinah, Ministry of Agriculture animal Industries & Fisheries
	04 June 2007	Organic Production in Rwanda	Kalibata, Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Resources
	04 June 2007	Organising Smallholder Supply Chain For Local Markets	Mwasha, Ministry of Agriculture Food Security and Cooperatives
	04 June 2007	Export Promotion of Organic Products from Africa	EPOPA
	04 June 2007	Kenya Country Report	Kenyan Stakeholders
	04 June 2007	IFAD and Organic Agriculture	Juma, IFAD
	04 June 2007	From Integrated Assessment to Integrated Policy Making	Naqvi, Secretariat
	04 June 2007	What is in the East African organic product standard?	Sana
	04 June 2007	Humanist Institute for Development Cooperation	Hivos
	04 June 2007	ITC Technical Assistance in the Organics Sector	ITC
	04 June 2007	Integrated Assessment of Uganda’s Organic Agriculture Sub-Sector Potential Growth Scenarios, Impacts and Policy Response Options	.
	04 June 2007	Progress on Organic Agriculture in Kenya	Amatha, Ministry of Agriculture
	04 June 2007	Organic in African in COMESA	Miti
	04 June 2007	United States African Development Foundation	Fields, USADF
	04 June 2007	Implementing Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP)	Mwape AU/NEPAD/FAO
	14 May 2007	East African organic products standard	Secretariat
	14 May 2007	Logistics Note	Secretariat
	04 May 2007	Registration Form	Secretariat
	04 May 2007	Brochure	Secretariat
	04 May 2007	Agenda 28-29 May	Secretariat
	17 January 2007	East Africa Organic Standard Final Draft	Secretariat
	13 December 2006	International Task Force on Harmonization and Eqivalency in Organic Agriculture (ITF)	Secretariat
	13 December 2006	East African Organic Standards as an East African Community Standard	Kenya Bureau of Standards
	13 December 2006	CODEX Guidelines On Organically Produced Foods	Selma H. Doyran, Joint FAO/WHO Food Standards Programme
	13 December 2006	The East African Organic Standard	Secretariat
	13 December 2006	Certification of small holders in India	Mariella Sandini
	13 December 2006	Participatory Guarantee Systems	IFOAM
	13 December 2006	Revision of EU regulation 2092/91 Target 1 January 2009	Secretariat
	13 December 2006	Organic Agriculture Standards In East Africa	Charles Walaga
	13 December 2006	The Organic Agriculture Sector in the East Africa Region, (Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi)	Eustace Kiarii, Kenya, KOAN, EAOT
	13 December 2006	IFOAM Organic Guarentee System (OGS)	IFOAM
	13 December 2006	Work of the RSTWG	Gama Jam Toam
	13 December 2006	Organic standards, Organic standards, certification, and regulations certification, and regulations in Thailand	Organic Agriculture Certification Thailand (ACT)
	11 December 2006	Progress of the Tanzania Integrated Assessment Work	Fanuel Shechambo
	11 December 2006	Concrete Action to be Taken at the National Level: Tanzania	Tanzania
	11 December 2006	Organic Policy	Gunnar Rundgren
	11 December 2006	Integrated Assessment and Planning (IAP) for Organic Agriculture in Kenya. Draft Country Report	Bridge Africa
	11 December 2006	Organic Sector Development in Zambia Organic Producers and Processors Association of Zambia	OPPAZ
	11 December 2006	The IA of the OA sub-sector in Uganda: The Process, Key Issues and PolicyRecommendations	ACODE
	11 December 2006	Organic Policy Formulation Process in Tanzania	Mafs
	11 December 2006	Rwanda’s Policy on Organic Agriculture	Charles Rutagengwa
	08 December 2006	Capacity Building Study 3: Organic Agriculture, Sustainability and Food Security in East Africa	Rachel Hine and Jules Pretty
	08 December 2006	Integrated Assessment and Planning (IAP) for Organic Agriculture in Kenya	KIPPRA
	08 December 2006	Overview of the Current State of Organic Agriculture in Kenya, Uganda and the United Republic of Tanzania and the Opportunities for Regional Harmonization	Secretariat
	08 December 2006	Integrated Assessment of Uganda’s Organic Agriculture Policy. Socio-economic and Environmental Impacts, Alternative Scenarios and Policy Response Options	Godber Tumushabe, Alice Ruhweza, Moses, Ben Naturinda
	07 December 2006	Comments on the 2nd draft of the East African Organic Standard	Secretariat
	06 December 2006	Best practices for organic policy: what developing country governments can do to promote the organic sector	Gunnar Rundgren, IFOAM
	25 May 2006	East African Organic Standard - Draft 1	Secretariat
	05 April 2006	Integrated Assessment: A tool for integrating environmental, social and economic considerations in the organic agriculture policies	Asad Naqvi, UNEP
	05 April 2006	Framework East African Organic Standard	Eva Mattson, Regional Standards Technical Working Group (RSTWG)
	05 April 2006	IFOAM worldwide	Anne Boor, IFOAM
	05 April 2006	International Task Force on Harmonisation and Equivalence in Organic Agriculture	Diane Bowen, ITF
	05 April 2006	IFOAM Organic standards, East Africa (OSEA) project	Gunnar Rundgren, IFOAM
	05 April 2006	Final Report	Secretariat
	05 April 2006	Organic Agriculture in the Region	AgroEco Consultancy BV, Uganda Branch
	24 March 2006	Enhancing National Capacities to Assess Wildlife Trade Policies in Support of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora	UNEP
	22 March 2006	Study 3. Organic and Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security in East Africa March 2006	Rachel Hine and Jules Pretty, Centre for Environment and Society
	22 March 2006	Supply of organic products from East Africa – NOGAMU’s experience	Ruth Sebagareka, NOGAMU
	22 March 2006	UNEP-UNCTAD Capacity Building Task Force on Trade, Environment and Development	Secretariat
	06 March 2006	Tackling Poverty and Food Insecurity Among Smallholder Farmers through Organic Trade	Peter Murage, MOOF Africa
	03 March 2006	Integrated Assessment Uganda - The Status of Organic Agriculture Production and Trading Opportunities in Uganda	Godber Tumushabe, Advocates Coalition for Development Environment
	02 March 2006	Integrated Assessment Tanzania - The Status of Organic Agriculture Production and Trading Opportunities in Tanzania	Esther Mella, ENVIROCARE, Fanual Shechambo, University of Dar es Salaam
	02 March 2006	Integrated Assessment Kenya - The Status of Organic Agriculture, Production and Trading Opportunities in Kenya	Eric Oyare, Bridge Africa
	24 February 2006	Outline of the East African Organic Standard	Secretariat
	17 February 2006	Overview of the Current State of Organic Agriculture in Kenya, Uganda and the Republic of Tanzania and the Opportunities for Regional Harmonization	Alastair Taylor, Agro Eco
	17 February 2006	Best Practices for Organic Policy: What developing country governments can do to promote the organic sector	Gunnar Rundgren, Grolink
	17 February 2006	Demand for Organic Products from East Africa	Rudy Kortbech-Olesen, ITC
	25 October 2005	Export Promotion of Organic Products from Africa	EPOPA
	25 October 2005	Initial Background Document on the Status of Organic Agriculture in Tanzania	Tanzania National Team
	25 October 2005	Initial Background Document on the Status of Organic Agriculture in Tanzania	Tanzania National Team
	25 October 2005	Project on Promoting Production and Trading Opportunities for Organic Agriculture in East Africa	Mellar
	25 October 2005	Participation Process	ENVIROCARE
	25 October 2005	Minutes	Secretariat
	20 October 2005	Background Study on Organic Agriculture in Uganda - An IAP Background Paper	ACODE
	20 October 2005	Participatory Process for Conducting the Integrated Assessment of the Organic Agriculture sub -Sector in Uganda	Advocates Coalition for Development & Environment
	20 October 2005	Status and Challenges to Organic Agricultural Production in Uganda	NOGAMU Coordinator, Organic Agricultural Development in Uganda
	20 October 2005	Challenges of Organic Production and Trade in Uganda with Specific Reference to Certification	UgoCert
	20 October 2005	Proposed market study for organic products from East Africa	ITC
	20 October 2005	UNCTAD’s Technical Cooperation and Capacity Building in the Area of Trade, Environment and Development	UNCTAD
	19 October 2005	UNEP Experiences with Integrated Assessment in Africa	UNEP
	19 October 2005	Organic Agriculture: A Trade and Sustainable Development Opportunity for Developing Countries - UNCTAD Trade and Environment Review 2005	UNCTAD
	19 October 2005	Status and Challenges to Organic Agricultural Production in Uganda	NOGAMU Coordinator, Organic Agricultural Development in Uganda
	19 October 2005	Initial Background Document on the Status of Organic Agriculture in Tanzania	Tanzania National Team
	19 October 2005	Promoting Production and Trading Opportunities for Organic Agricultural Products	UNCTAD
	19 October 2005	Organic Agriculture in the Region	AgroEco Consultancy BV, Uganda branch
	19 October 2005	Background Study on Organic Agriculture in Uganda - An IAP Background Paper	ACODE
	19 October 2005	Marketing Initiatives in Uganda - Overview	NOGAMU Coordinator, Organic Agricultural Development in Uganda
	19 October 2005	UNCTAD-FAO-IFOAM International Task Force on Harmonization and Equivalence in Organic Agriculture	UNCTAD
	19 October 2005	National Integrated Assessment of Organic Agriculture - Kenya	Bridge Africa