IFOAM | UNEP UNCTAD (CBTF) Best Practices for Organic Policy: What developing Countries Can Do to Promote the Organic Agriculture Sector, What developing Countries Can Do to Promote the Organic Agriculture Sector The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) 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 the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (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. This study 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. 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. Download: Best Practices for Organic Policy: What developing Countries Can Do to Promote the Organic Agriculture Sector .pdf International Fund for Agricultural Development Rural Poverty Report (external link) Thematic Evaluation: The Adoption of Organic Agriculture Among Small Farmers in Latin America and the Caribbean IFAD 2003 .pdf IFOAM is constantly updating the information on this website. Comments or suggestions contact the Platform Coordinator

	UNEP UNCTAD (CBTF) Best Practices for Organic Policy: What developing Countries Can Do to Promote the Organic Agriculture Sector, What developing Countries Can Do to Promote the Organic Agriculture Sector The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) 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 the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (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. This study 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. 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. Download: Best Practices for Organic Policy: What developing Countries Can Do to Promote the Organic Agriculture Sector .pdf International Fund for Agricultural Development Rural Poverty Report (external link) Thematic Evaluation: The Adoption of Organic Agriculture Among Small Farmers in Latin America and the Caribbean IFAD 2003 .pdf IFOAM is constantly updating the information on this website. Comments or suggestions contact the Platform Coordinator



	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 IFOAM is constantly updating the information on this website. Comments or suggestions contact the Platform Coordinator




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