Agriculture in the tropics & subtropics

What FiBL is doing on this theme
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- 04/30/2025 : How organic cotton farmers in India influence soil fertility
- 04/25/2024 : Organic agriculture in the tropics: a contributor to local livelihoods
- 04/11/2024 : A viable future: Agroecology and organic agriculture in the tropics
- 02/09/2024 : New policy dossier on agroecology in the tropics
- 10/06/2023 : Tropentag pre-event "Agroecology and Organic Farming and the Contribution to Global Food Security"
- 09/11/2023 : Successful global forum on controlling the armyworm
- 02/10/2023 : Booklet "Faces of Organic Cotton"
- 08/26/2022 : SysCom program: the status quo and the future
- 12/22/2021 : International prize for FiBL program: award ceremony and workshop with researchers from India and Kenya
- 12/16/2021 : International FiBL cotton project honoured with research prize
- 01/27/2021 : Organic agriculture is a sustainable alternative for developing economies
- 07/17/2020 : Long-term farming systems research across the globe: New book released
- 07/02/2019 : Towards improved sustainability of palm oil – FiBL publishes assessment report
- 02/28/2019 : Towards improved sustainability of palm oil – Can organic certification boost positive environmental and social impact of palm oil?
- 06/08/2018 : FiBL at the Annual Swiss Development Cooperation Conference 2018
- 11/24/2016 : Organic farming in sub-Saharan Africa is productive, economically viable and resource-conserving
- 06/30/2016 : Organic equals conventional agriculture in the tropics
- 11/11/2015 : SFIAR Award Ceremony 2015
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Status	FiBL	Title	Start	End
ongoing	CH	Project ambassadorship for the Knowledge Centre for Organic Agriculture and Agroecology in Africa (KCOA-AMBAS)	01.05.2025	31.12.2027
ongoing	CH	Production of organic wheat in the Virunga region in eastern Congo	01.01.2025	31.12.2025
ongoing	CH	Supporting Agroecological Food Systems in Benin (West Africa) (SAF-B)	20.12.2024	30.04.2026
ongoing	CH	Enhancing Resilience and Functional Biodiversity of Farming Systems by Mainstreaming Landraces in Karnataka (South India)	01.12.2024	30.11.2027
completed	CH	Training on Innovation Platforms in Africa	12.07.2024	31.10.2024
ongoing	CH FR	Governance and business models for living labs: rural regeneration hubs for tackling soil health challenges in the Mediterranean region (GOV4ALL)	01.06.2024	28.11.2028
ongoing	CH	Cacao Field Lab Peru	01.03.2024	30.12.2026
ongoing	CH	Development of local compost production to optimize coffee production (Biofabrica)	08.02.2024	31.12.2026
ongoing	CH	Carbon footprint and other environmental impacts in different cacao production system: a long-term analysis	01.01.2024	30.11.2028
completed	CH	Sustainable Sourcing Landscapes in Colombia	20.11.2023	20.11.2024
completed	CH	Impact study on the implications of the new EU Organic Regulation in Dominican Republic	01.04.2023	31.10.2024
completed	CH	Biodiversity boost through regenerative organic agroforestry in Central Ghana	20.11.2022	30.11.2024
completed	CH	Promoting the Sara Ana Center in Bolivia as a renowned international training and research centre for cacao related agroforestry	01.10.2022	30.06.2025
ongoing	CH	Climate friendly organic palm and coconut oil production in the tropics	01.09.2022	31.12.2025
completed	CH	Cocoa-based dynamic agroforestry and wild Bolivian specialty cocoa value chain development (Amazonia resiliente)	10.04.2022	31.07.2023
completed	CH	Promotion of the organic cotton and textile sub-sector in Burkina Faso through the CCBE (proBio CCBE)	01.05.2021	30.04.2023
completed	CH	Fair & Organic Coconut Oil from Côte d’Ivoire	01.03.2021	31.12.2024
completed	CH	Organic Palm Oil from Africa – Bio Suisse certified palm oil from small-scale farmers in Ivory Coast	01.01.2021	31.12.2024
completed		Etablierung des Lavendelanbaus im Mühlviertel - Kultivierungsversuche, Entwicklung von Ernte- und Aufbereitungstechniken sowie Produktentwicklung (Mühlviertler Granit Lavendel)	01.08.2020	31.07.2022
completed	CH	Knowledge Management Systems Backstopper for Main Phase of the establishment of Northern Africa Organic Knowledge Hub	01.07.2020	30.06.2022
completed	CH	Role of crop diversification in livelihood improvement of Indian organic cotton growers	17.01.2020	31.10.2020
completed	CH	Research Backstopper for Inception Phase of the Establishment of Northern Africa Organic Knowledge Hub	01.12.2019	30.04.2020
completed	EU	Start-Up Bio (Start-Up Bio)	01.11.2019	31.10.2021
completed	CH	Training materials and courses for best practices in organic and dynamic Cocoa Agroforestry systems	01.11.2019	30.09.2022
completed	CH	Meta-analysis on the sustainability of cocoa production systems along a diversity gradient (Biodiversity Climate)	01.01.2019	30.04.2020
completed	CH	Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Framework for the Swiss Platform for Sustainable Cocoa	01.10.2018	30.04.2019
completed	CH	Organic and Fair Palm Oil Production	01.10.2018	31.03.2019
completed	CH	Nachhaltigkeitsbewertung von Avocado Zulieferbetrieben zur Hotspot- und Risikoanalyse für die REWE Group	01.01.2018	31.12.2018
completed	CH	Enhancing supply chain stability, resilience and sustainability through improved sub-supplier management – chocolate and cotton apparel case studies	01.01.2018	30.06.2022
completed	CH	Seeding the Green Future: Breeding for Securing Organic Cotton & Genetic Diversity Phase II (2018-2022) (SGF)	01.01.2018	30.06.2022
completed	CH DE	Green Innovation Centres in the Agriculture and Food Sector - Working Group on Organic Agriculture	01.08.2017	31.01.2023
completed	CH	Seeding the Green Future: Breeding for Securing Organic Cotton & Genetic Diversity Phase I (Indian Cotton Season 2017/18) (SGF)	01.01.2017	31.03.2018
completed	CH	Colombia + Competitiva - Strengthening the Competitiveness of the Private Sector	01.01.2017	30.06.2019
completed	CH	Transdisciplinary systems research to develop a novel holistic concept for reducing the spread and impact of Cocoa Swollen Shoot Virus Disease in West Africa (TransdisCSSVD)	01.04.2015	31.12.2018
completed	CH	Yamsys, Biophysical and socio-economic drivers of sustainable soil use in yam cropping systems for improved food security in West Africa (Yamsys)	01.11.2014	30.11.2020
completed	CH	Zinc Biofortification of Wheat through Organic Matter Management in Sustainable Agriculture (ZOMM)	01.11.2013	31.10.2016
completed	CH	Productivity and Profitability of Organic and Conventional Farming Systems	01.07.2013	31.12.2019
ongoing	CH	Decentralised farmers participatory identification and selection of cotton cultivars suitable to organic and Low-Input conditions in India (Green Cotton)	01.01.2013
completed	CH	Barry Callebaut cocoa production research: System research approach to increase cocoa sustainability	01.05.2011	31.12.2016
completed	CH	Citrus Greening and NFC Procurement 2020-24	01.01.2011	30.05.2024
completed	CH	Biolandbau in Surinam	01.01.2011	31.12.2012
completed	CH	Fertile Soil for Peri-Urban Agriculture in Hyderabad	01.01.2011	31.12.2013
completed	CH	Organic cotton- Experimental Learning Methodologies	01.01.2010	31.07.2010
completed	CH	African Organic Farming Training Manual	01.10.2009	31.12.2015
completed	CH	Organic Orange and Grapefruit Juice Production, Mexico	01.01.2007	31.12.2014
ongoing	CH	Long-term farming systems comparisons in the tropics (SysCom)	01.05.2005	31.12.2026
completed	CH	Organic Tobacco Production, Argentina	01.01.2005	31.12.2010

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