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Is Organic Agriculture a viable option for the Global South?

Two researchers on an agroforestry plantation

(Foto: Victor Soto)

Cocoa plantation

(Foto: FiBL, Johanna Rüegg)

A side event for the Science Days of the UN Food System Summit organized by the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL), University of Ghana, Kenya Agricultural & Livestock Research Organization (KALRO), and Biovision Africa Trust.

Join us online on the 7th July 2021, 11:00–12:30 (CET)

Debate is ongoing whether organic/agroecological approaches would be a realistic and innovative pathway for eliminating poverty and hunger and promoting responsible and inclusive healthier consumption and production in the Global South. Scientific evidence is barely available as such research usually focused on the North. Unique results of 12 years’ comparative on-station and on-farm research in Kenya, Ghana, Uganda, Bolivia, and India will be presented, highlighting productivity, profitability, and sustainability benefits and trade-offs that organic systems and other agroecological approaches offer to society and the environment. The discussion will reflect on policy recommendations towards selected SDG’s with a particular focus on smallholders.

Please register here for the digital event: David Bautze

  • Beate Huber
  • Seraina Kalchofner, media spokesperson FiBL Switzerland
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