Events
FiBL supports and (co-)organises events relatated to development and cooperation in organic agriculture.
November 27-29, 2008: India Organic Seminar "Global Organic Agribusiness: India Arrives," in New Dehli
The International Competence Centre for Organic Agriculture ICCOA is organizing the fourth India Organic Seminar "Global Organic Agribusiness: India Arrives". The seminar accompanies the India Organic Trade Fair. The Seminar is organized in cooperation with international and national organizations, including the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture FiBL. It will be held at the Indian Agricultural Research Institute in New Dehli, November 27-29, 2008. More
November 4-6, 2008: FiBL course 'GMO residues in organic produce – assessment and interpretation'
Organic farming abstains from the use of genetically modified organisms. However, GMOs can inadvertently contaminate organic foods through pollen dispersal, bought-in feeds, or cooperatively used machinery for transport, storage or processing. GMO residues in organic production are a sensitive topic. Therefore, inspection bodies and operators need tools and concepts to handle cases of adventitious presence of GMOs in organic products. FiBL offers a course from November 4-6, 2008, for personnel of inspection bodies and operators (food processing industry or farmers). Info/Registration
Past events
April 7-9, 2008: FiBL course 'Pesticide residues on organic produce – sampling, assessment and interpretation' in Frick, Switzerland
Pesticide residues in organic production are a sensitive topic and critical for the image of the sector. Therefore, inspection bodies but also operators need professional tools and concepts to handle cases of suspicion regarding organic products which are not in compliance with Council Regulation (EEC) 2092/91. April 7-9, 2008, FiBL is offering a course for inspection bodies and operators (food processing industry). Info/Registration
November 29, 2007 - December 2, 2007
India Organic 2007: India Organic Trade Fair and India Organic Congress 
After the successful trade fairs India Organic 2005 and 2006, the Indian Competence Centre of Organic Agriculture ICCOA organised India Organic 2007.
During the fair the India Organic Seminar was held, organised in cooperation with the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture FiBL, Switzerland. The two day seminar was a excellent setting to exchange information on recent developments, achievements, trends and research results of the organic sector. It provided an environment to discuss up-to-date topics of the sector. National and international stakeholders were invited to submit contributions of general interest for the organic industry.
- Venue: National Agricultural Science Centre (NASC) Complex of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research ICAR, New Delhi
- Fair homepage www.indiaorganictradefairs.com
- Article Organic food trade fair to be held in Delhi, Calcutta Net
- FiBL contact: Tobias Eisenring
February 21-24, 2008: FiBL at Biofach 2008
FiBL and its project partners were present at BioFach with several workshops. At the session 'Organic Farming World-Wide' the latest statistics were presented (more than 30 million hectares world-wide, global market at 38.6 billion US Dollars in 2006); at the session on 'Climate change and organic agriculture in developing countries' issues like airfreight or the carbon market were discussed. Furthermore information on 'The revised EU Regulation - implications for exports to Europe' and on 'Retailing organic food', including a paper on Organic retailer development in Latin America' were presented. The slides of some of the presentations are available at the FiBL homepage.
All FiBL-BioFach events
October 1-5, 2007:
Meeting of Organic Producers and Researchers in Latin America and the Caribbean / 
II Encuentro Latinoamericano y del Caribe de Productoras y Productores
This event is organized by the organic prodducers, the National Committee on Organic Farming (Comisión Nacional de Agricultura Ecológica) and the Association of Agronomists in Guatemala (Colegio de Ingenieros Agrónomos de Guatemala CIAG). The internal conference committee constists of representatives of
the Information and Technology Transfer Programme in the Area of Organic Agriculture PITTA
(Costa Rica), the National Institute of Agricultural Sciences INCA (Cuba), the University of Agricultural Sciences Chapingo UACH (Mexico) and the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture FiBL (Switzerland).
In 2006 the first meeting of organic producers and reesearchers had taken place in Nicaragua (Info).
- Venue: Hotel Soleil, Antigua Guatemala.
- Conference Homepage: aolatc.50g.com
- FiBL Contact: Salvador Garibay
October 2-3, 2007:
Workshop 'Preventing Fraud' in Frick, Switzerland
At this workshop the challenges to protect the integrity of organic products in the rapidly growing sector were be dicussed with the key-players in the control chain. Based on case studies and the experience of the participating experts, measures for short term implementation and long-term strategies to prevent fraud was elaborated.
- Workshop info
- Press release More Security in the Organic Certification
- FiBL Contact: Beate Huber
- February 17, 2007
Climate Change and Organic Farming in Developing Countries at BioFach 2007, Nuremburg, Germany
The event was organized by the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture FiBL, Switzerland, Corporación Educativa para el Desarrollo Costarricense CEDECO, Costa Rica, the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation SDC, Switzerland and the Humanist Institute for Cooperation with Developing Countries HIVOS, The Netherlands.
- September 26-29, 2006
First Meeting of Organic Producers and Researchers in Latin America in Managua, Nicaragua, in co-operation with FiBL.
