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Making Sustainability Standards Work for Small-scale Farmers. A Pre-UNCTAD XII Event
Arusha, United Republic of Tanzania. 7-9 April 2008
Organized by UNCTAD in partnership with UNEP, FAO, ITC, IISD, IFOAM, TOAM, BOKU, IIED, ISEAL and EPOPA. With the financial support of the Governments of Austria and Norway and DFID.
The meeting will aim to:
1) Identify the impact of the spread of sustainability standards on smallholder farmers in developing countries, particularly in Africa;
2) Map effective strategies to minimize the costs and maximize the benefits of this persistent and important global trend for smallholders; and
3) Identify real economic, social and environmental win-win-win opportunities and related supportive policies and supportive/flanking measures.
The Conference will provide a platform for dialogue between experts from the public and private sector in Africa as well as selected international resource persons. Moreover, as this is a pre-event to the main UNCTAD XII Conference (20-25 April 2008 in Accra, Ghana), key messages from the meeting will be transmitted to UNCTAD XII. This event is being organized by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in cooperation with the:
- United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP);
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nation (FAO);
- International Trade Center (ITC);
- International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD);
- nternational Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM);
- Tanzania Organic Agriculture Movement (TOAM);
- University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU);
- International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED);
- International Social and Environmental Accreditation and Labeling Alliance (ISEAL); and
- Export Promotion of Organic Products from Africa (EPOPA).
Documents
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| Draft Agenda | Secretariat |  |
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| List of Participants | Secretariat | |
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| Conclusions and recommendations | Secretariat | |
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| FAO. Agrifood Systems Brief no 5: Supporting Farmer Compliance with Private Standards | FAO | |
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| FAO. Agricultural Management, Marketing and Finance Occasional Paper no 16: Organic certification schemes: managerial skills and associated costs | FAO | |
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| FAO. Agricultural Management, Marketing and Finance Working Document 14: Certification costs and managerial skills under different organic certification schemes - Selected Case Studies | FAO | |
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| FAO. Commodities and trade technical paper no 11: Value-adding standards in the North American food market. Trade opportunities in certified products for developing countries | FAO | |
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| Social and environmental responsibility in progress. Making quality systems work for poverty alleviation , biodiversity conservation and company performance | Pistorius and Oppenoorth | |
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| Small Holder Accessibility to Social & Environmental Standards | ISEAL | |
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| Participation of smallholders in sustainable products trade - perspectives | BIOS, Steve Homer | |
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| Sustainability Standards: Any Chance for Participation by African Small Scale Farmers? Horticulture Perspective | FPEAK, Stephen Mbithi | |
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| Sustainability Business Model for Smallholder Farmers | KILICAFE | |
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| Working with Small Scale Farmers. The Biofresh Experience | Biofresh | |
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| Framing the Issue. Making sustainability standards work for small-scale farmers | UNCTAD, Ulrich Hoffmann | |
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| Presentations, Day 2 |
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| Local marketing of small scale organic farmers produce in Nairobi Kenya | Green Dreams Ltd | |
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| Organic Policy Recommendations | Grolink | |
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| Public-Private Partnerships – The East African Organic Standard and Mark | Eboku and Kiarii | |
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| Overview on Organic Agriculture in Africa | IFOAM, Hervé Bouagnimbeck | |
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| Small-Scale Farmers Organic Certification: Tanzania experience | TanCert | |
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| Organic Agriculture Development in Uganda | NOGAMU, Muwanga, and MAAIF, Opolot | |
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| Small Holder farmers and Sustainability Standards Export Promotion of Organic Products from Africa. Successful? | EPOPA, Alastair Taylor | |
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| Organic Agriculture: A Trade and Sustainable Development Opportunity for Developing Countries | UNCTAD, Sophia Twarog | |
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| Promoting Sustainable Commodity Sectors: Through multi-stakeholder approaches | Sustainable Commodity Initiative | |
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| Africa-Observer Project | Johannes Kern | |
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| UNCTAD activities on Sustainability Standards | UNCTAD, Ulrich Hoffmann | |
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Contacts
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| Sophia Twarog | Economic Affairs Officer | tel: +41 (0)22 917 5082 Fax: +41 (0)22 917 0247 | |