Market development

What FiBL is doing on this theme
- Group Value Chains & Markets, Department of International Cooperation, FiBL Switzerland
News on the theme

02.04.26

Global survey on the effects of EU compliance on organic smallholders

The transition to the new EU Organic Regulation and the upcoming EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR)…

19.09.22

Ukraine as part of the European organic family is celebrating the European Organic Day

Notwithstanding the war, Ukraine remains dedicated to the further advancement of organic agriculture…

20.12.11

Import of Bio Suisse certified oats from Ukraine

In December, the first Bio Suisse certified oats were successfully imported from Ukraine. The…

07.06.10

FiBL-supported Citricos Ex wins Prestigious Mexican National Export Award for organic citrus exports to Switzerland

Citricos Ex (Citrex), a Mexican company dedicated to processing fruit juices from the Veracruz…

27.11.08

India Organic Seminar "Global Organic Agribusiness: India Arrives"

The International Competence Centre for Organic Agriculture ICCOA is organizing the fourth India…
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Projects on the theme

Status	FiBL	Title	Start	End
ongoing	CH	Improving the integration of Smallholder Cooperatives in the sustainable Oil Palm and Coconut value chains with Due Diligence processes	01.01.2026	31.03.2027
ongoing	CH	Developing sustainable Kilimohai market system for agroecological school meals and mass markets in Muranga county, Kenya (KA4S)	01.10.2025	31.03.2028
ongoing	CH	Climate-relevant upcycling of industrial waste in the tropics (Biochar4Climate&Soil)	01.09.2025	30.04.2028
completed	CH	Graphics project: promoting the value of neglected crops (CROPS4HD-Graphics)	03.03.2025	30.06.2025
ongoing	CH	Climate friendly organic palm and coconut oil production in the tropics (phase 2) (Olea Vitalis)	01.01.2025	31.12.2027
completed	CH	Evaluation of Biovision's iABC project	04.11.2024	31.01.2025
completed	CH	Training on Innovation Platforms in Africa	12.07.2024	31.10.2024
ongoing	CH	Empowering Rural Economies in Agriculture in Kosovo (EREA Kosovo)	01.02.2024	31.12.2026
ongoing	CH	Organic and Fairtrade certification of baby- and cooking bananas	01.01.2024	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	Georgian-Swiss Intellectual Property Project (GESIP)	01.11.2023	30.06.2025
ongoing	CH EU	Medicinal plants for animal health care: Translating tradition into modern veterinary (MedPlants4Vet)	12.10.2023	11.10.2027
completed	CH	Training and technical support on the new EU organic regulation and key implications for the organic sector in Ecuador	17.07.2023	31.03.2024
ongoing	CH	Quality Food Trade Program in Ukraine, Phase II (QFTP)	01.07.2023	30.06.2026
completed	CH	Impact study on the implications of the new EU Organic Regulation in Dominican Republic	01.04.2023	31.10.2024
completed	CH	Study of the impacts of the new EU Organic Regulation 2018/848 on smallholder value chains and the EU organic market	01.04.2023	31.10.2024
completed	CH	COLEAD Digital Collective Training on “Adapt Your Internal Control System (ICS) to the New EU Regulation on Organic Production"	01.01.2023	31.12.2024
completed	CH	Needs Assessment workshop for the establishment of a Participatory Guarantee System for the organic horticulture sector of Rwanda (Rwanda PGS)	01.09.2022	31.10.2022
completed	CH	Climate friendly organic palm and coconut oil production in the tropics (CO2Tropics)	01.09.2022	31.12.2024
ongoing	CH	Credibility Team Import Restriction Bio Suisse	01.08.2022
completed	CH	Accelerating the Organic Market Development in Kenya (AOMD)	01.07.2022	30.06.2025
completed	CH	Cocoa-based dynamic agroforestry and wild Bolivian specialty cocoa value chain development (Amazonia resiliente)	10.04.2022	31.07.2023
completed	CH	SIRED Kosovo	01.02.2022	15.12.2022
ongoing	CH	Markets and Seeds Access Project for Small Grains and Legumes in Zambia and Zimbabwe (MASAP)	01.12.2021	30.11.2033
completed	CH	Consultation of the Sidama Coffee Cooperative Union (SCFCU) regarding the new EU organic regulation (GIZ ICS Ethiopia)	03.11.2021	15.12.2022
completed	CH	Organic dried prunes	01.09.2021	31.12.2023
completed	CH	Organic Trade for Development (OT4D)	01.09.2021	31.08.2023
completed	CH	Organic Influencer Marketing - Improving Market Access for Farmers and Strengthening Demand for Organic Products through Social Media in Kenya	01.07.2021	31.12.2023
ongoing	CH	Consumption of Resilient Orphan Crops & Products for Healthier Diets (CROPS4HD)	01.07.2021
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 DE	Green Innovation Centres for the Agriculture and Food Sector – Organic Working Group	01.02.2021	31.01.2023
completed	CH	Bio Hülsenfrüchte aus Europa (Hülsenfrüchte)	01.01.2021	31.12.2023
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
ongoing	CH	Strengthening the competitiveness of various value chains in Peru (SeCompetitivo Peru)	22.06.2020
completed	CH	Fact finding for the establishment of a direct value chain for Bio Suisse certified green pistachio kernels from Turkey	01.02.2020	30.04.2020
completed	CH	Äthiopien Agrinatura VCA4D Baumwolle	08.01.2020	31.08.2020
completed	DE	Expansion of Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan local smallholder organic agriculture and forest-based food products to EU Markets (ELSOFP)	01.01.2020	31.12.2022
completed	CH	Knowledge transfer to ICS certified producer groups in selected African countries within the framework of GIZ SI training and employment (Africa ICS GIZ)	15.10.2019	31.12.2020
completed	CH	German-Moroccan expert dialogue on agriculture and forestry (DIAF)	01.10.2019	31.12.2025
completed	CH	Linking organic farmers in Muranga, Kenya, to markets through value chain, agribusiness and technical capacity development (Africa ProEco PMCA Bachmann)	01.10.2019	31.08.2022
completed	DE	Development of a database for organic animals and for organic juvenile aquaculture animals according to Art. 26 of the EU Regulation 2018/848 (TierDB)	01.09.2019	31.12.2021
completed	CH	Higher Value Added Trade from the Organic and the Dairy Sector in Ukraine (Quality FOOD Trade Program)	23.08.2019	30.06.2023
completed	CH	Mali Agrinatura VCA4D Fisch	01.07.2019	31.03.2020
completed	CH	Farmer capacity development to improve organic sesame production in Ethiopia	01.07.2019	30.06.2022
completed	CH	InfOrganic - Organic Farming: Principles and Best Practices	01.06.2019	31.12.2019
completed	DE CH	Green Innovation Centres for the Agriculture and Food Sector – Organic Working Group	01.01.2019	31.12.2020
completed	CH	Wildvogelfutter in Knospe-Qualität	01.01.2019	31.12.2019
completed	DE	Workshop „Model Organic Regions“ at Skopje (Macedonia)	15.10.2018	31.12.2018
completed	CH	Organic beans from Macedonia on the Coop shelf	01.09.2018	31.12.2023
completed	CH	Indian Organic Market Development Project IOMDP; Organic and Fair Trade cashew nuts from Ajanta Industries for the global market	01.09.2010	31.12.2013
completed	CH	Organic Certification and Market Development, Lebanon	01.01.2005	31.12.2011

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Market development

What FiBL is doing on this theme

News on the theme

Global survey on the effects of EU compliance on organic smallholders

Ukraine as part of the European organic family is celebrating the European Organic Day

Import of Bio Suisse certified oats from Ukraine

FiBL-supported Citricos Ex wins Prestigious Mexican National Export Award for organic citrus exports to Switzerland

India Organic Seminar "Global Organic Agribusiness: India Arrives"

Relevant publications for practitioners

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