East Africa Policy Workshop on Organic Agriculture

Nairobi, Kenya, 11 December 2006

The workshop is being organized in direct response to the expressed needs of ministries of agriculture of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.

The aim of the workshop is to facilitate the policy development processes in the three countries, which are at different stages of OA policy development. The East Africa Organic Policy Workshop will provide a platform for dialogue among key public and private sector actors currently involved in developing policies to promote the production and export of organic agricultural products in East Africa.

Initial findings of the integrated assessment projects, which are focused on analyzing environmental, social and economic impacts of different policy options for OA sector, will be presented at the workshop. In addition, case studies from different developing countries, where OA policies have been successful in promoting the sector, will be shared. A few observers from other African countries will enrich the discussion.

Documents and Presentations

	Title	Author	File
	Logistics Note	Secretariat
	Agenda	Secretariat
	Events Overview	Secretariat
	Best practices for organic policy: what developing country governments can do to promote the organic sector	Gunnar Rundgren, IFOAM
	Progress of the Tanzania Integrated Assessment Work	Fanuel Shechambo
	Concrete Action to be Taken at the National Level: Tanzania	Tanzania
	Organic Policy	Gunnar Rundgren
	Integrated Assessment and Planning (IAP) for Organic Agriculture in Kenya. Draft Country Report	Bridge Africa
	Organic Sector Development in Zambia Organic Producers and Processors Association of Zambia	OPPAZ
	The IA of the OA sub-sector in Uganda: The Process, Key Issues and PolicyRecommendations	ACODE
	Organic Policy Formulation Process in Tanzania	Mafs
	Rwanda’s Policy on Organic Agriculture	Charles Rutagengwa

Coordinators