Organic Food Systems Africa

Das OFSA Projekt hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, die Frage der Nachhaltigkeit des biologischen Landbaus in Entwicklungsländern am Beispiel von 6 repräsentativen Fallstudien in Kenia, Ghana und Uganda zu beantworten (Arbeitspaket 1: Repräsentative Nachhaltigkeitsanalyse).

Auf Basis der Ergebnisse der wissenschaftlichen Untersuchungen werden Massnahmen durchgeführt, um Betroffene und Entscheidungsträger, d.h. Bauern, Berater, Wissenschaftler, Politik, Ernährungswirtschaft, für ein nachhaltigkeitsorientiertes Handeln zu befähigen (Arbeitspaket 2: Capacity Building) und den nationalen und internationalen Diskurs zu nachhaltiger und biologischer Landwirtschaft zu unterstützen (Arbeitspaket 3: Dissemination).

Das Projekt baut stark auf Vorleistungen und Ergebnissen aus dem Projekt ProEcoAfrica auf, welches spezifisch die Produktivität und Profitabilität des biologischen Landbaus in Kenia und Ghana erfasst.

OFSA builds onto the ProEcoAfrica productivity and profitability assessments among organic and conventional farming systems in Ghana and Kenya and will provide science-based results on the impacts of the farming practices among these organic and conventional farmers in as far as sustainability categories of social, economic, environmental and governance contexts are concerned.

Specific Objectives:

1. Generate comparative sound data and contextual evidence on sustainability of organic and conventional farming systems in GH, KE, and UG.
2. Strengthen knowledge and capacity of EOA researchers and practitioners (including Students).
3. To support and inform policies on Ecological Organic Agriculture (EOA) and related.

Expected Outcomes:

• A more holistic scientific assessment of smallholder organic agriculture sustainability and performance in Ghana, Kenya and Uganda developed and available for application and/or adaptation to other developing countries.
• Sound comparative data and evidence on sustainability of organic and conventional farming systems in Ghana, Kenya and Uganda generated.
• Participating farmers have better understanding of the impacts of their farming practices and have more knowledge on how to improve the sustainability of their farming system.
• Project results contribute to the evidence-based formation of decisions in business and politicies in agricultural and related sectors.
• Improved transparency in the decisions on purchase of raw material in the food sector and to a higher demand of sus-tainable raw products.

OFSA is supported financially by:

• Mercator Foundation Switzerland

OFSA complements the ProEcoAfrica Project which is supported financially by:

• Dutch Humanist Institute for Cooperation (Hivos)
• Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation

• Stiftung Mercator Schweiz – Handlungsfeld ökologische Landwirtschaft und Ernährung

The implementing partners are:

Ghana

• Agro Eco-Louis Bolk Institute
• University of Ghana, College of Basic and Applied Sciences
• Directorate of Crop Services, Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA)

Kenya

• Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO)
• International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe)

International

• International Federation of the Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM)

National advisory committees in the project countries, and the project steering committee:

http://www.proecoafrica.net/advisoryproject-steering.html

• Kadzere-Forichi Irene (Dipartimento della cooperazione internazionale)
• Schader Christian (Dipartimento di scienze dei sistemi agroalimentari)

• Adamtey Noah (Dipartimento della cooperazione internazionale)
• Blockeel Johan (Dipartimento di scienze dei sistemi agroalimentari)
• Fliessbach Andreas (Dipartimento di scienze del suolo)
• Heidenreich Anja (Dipartimento di scienze dei sistemi agroalimentari)
• Huber Beate (Vicepresidente del comitato di direzione; Departement für Internationale Zusammenarbeit)
• Nicolay Gian L. (Dipartimento della cooperazione internazionale)
• Schader Christian (Dipartimento di scienze dei sistemi agroalimentari)
• Schlatter Bernhard (Dipartimento di scienze dei sistemi agroalimentari)
• Ssebunya Brian (Departement für Agrar- und Ernährungssysteme)
• Stolze Mathias (Departement für Agrar- und Ernährungssysteme)
• Weisshaidinger Rainer (Nachhaltigkeitsbewertung)

Coordination

Weitere Informationen über das SMART-Farm-Tool zur Nachhaltigkeitsbewertung finden sie auf:

http://www.fibl.org/de/themen/smart.html

• Sistemi dicoltivazione resilienti (Dipartimento della cooperazione internazionale, FiBL Schweiz)
• Sostenibilità (Dipartimento di scienze dei sistemi agroalimentari, FiBL Schweiz)
• Sviluppo della politica & dei settori (Dipartimento della cooperazione internazionale, FiBL Schweiz)
• Valutazione della sostenibilità (FiBL Österreich)