Arbenz, Markus; Huber, Beate; Nicolay, Gian L. and Kadzere, Irene (2024) Research and Development Strategy for Organic Africa. FiBL’s focus on contributions through research, evidence, and capacity-building. Speech at: Organic World Congress 2024, Chiayi, Taiwan, at Nanhua University, 2 - 4 December 2024.
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The paper provides an overview of FiBL's Africa Strategy 2022 -2025.
Having a history of over 25 years of supporting Organic Africa, FiBL has since 2021 four areas of intervention:
1.Nutrition and Human health
2.Sustainable, ecological, organic, and resilient farming and production systems
3.Markets and value chain development
4.Policy and sector development FiBL’s Africa Strategy eventually supports the capacity of African organic stakeholders, facilitates innovations for smallholder farmers and value chains, and lays the ground for evidence-building for narratives of market players, advocates, and policymakers in Africa.
| EPrint Type: | Conference paper, poster, etc. |
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| Type of presentation: | Speech |
| Keywords: | African Organic Strategy, Research and Development, Evidence for Narratives, Abacus, FiBL65227 |
| Agrovoc keywords: | Language Value URI English Africa http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_165 English strategies http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_330991 English nutrition http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_49892 English production systems http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_a175b273 English value chains http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_2cbe5456 English sectoral development -> economic development http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_2471 English policies http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_6062 |
| Subjects: | Farming Systems Food systems > Markets and trade "Organics" in general > Countries and regions > Africa |
| Research affiliation: | Switzerland > FiBL - Research Institute of Organic Agriculture Switzerland > International > Regions > Africa International Conferences > 2024: Organic World Congress |
| Deposited By: | Arbenz, Markus |
| ID Code: | 56581 |
| Deposited On: | 08 Jan 2026 12:52 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Jan 2026 07:23 |
| Document Language: | English |
| Status: | Published |
| Refereed: | Peer-reviewed and accepted |
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