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This study by the UNEP-UNCTAD Capacity Building Task Force on Trade, Environment and Development
(CBTF) recommends that developing-country Governments should generally focus on playing a facilitating rather than a controlling role. They should engage in dialog with their organic sectors to identify their most pressing needs and consider conducting an integrated assessment of the sector.
Download Best Practices for Organic Policy: What Developing Countries Can Do to Promote the Organic Agriculture Sector
in English or Spanish
Integrating organic agriculture into overall agricultural policies and poverty reduction strategies, and building organic agriculture supply capacities through education, research, extension services, local and regional market development and export facilitation, are key to realizing the benefits that organic agriculture offers.
Visit UNEP International Fund for Agricultural Development: Rural Poverty Report
Visit UNCTAD United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
UNEP-UNCTAD selected organic as a
priority issue to be addressed in the framework of the UNEP-UNCTAD
Capacity Building Task Force on Trade, Environment and Development
(CBTF).
Since
2004 efforts have focused on promoting production and trading
opportunities for organic products in East Africa, including
supporting, in cooperation with IFOAM, the development and adoption in 2007 of the East African
organic products standard (EAOPS). The EAOPS is the second regional
organic standard after that of the European Union and the first ever to
be developed through a region-wide public-private-NGO partnership
process.
Development of the East African Organic Product Standards (Power point) M. Muwanga, G. Kirenga
IFOAM Session: Regional Organic Standards in East Africa and the Pacific -from the 2008 Organic World Congress
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