About
At the IFOAM Organic World Congress a workshop on global data collection and processing will be held.
Date: June 18, 2008, from 6.30 to 8.00 pm.
Venue: Fondazione S. Carlo - Sala Conferenze, Via S. Carlo, Modena (see >>city map).
The workshop is open to all participants of the IFOAM Organic World Congress.
The workshop is organised by FiBL and IFOAM.
Programme
Chair
Lukas Kilcher, FiBL. Frick, Switzerland
6.30 - 6.35 pm
1. Introduction: Importance of global data collection
Lukas Kilcher, FiBL. Frick, Switzerland
6.35-6.40 pm
Introduction: Experiences with 9 years of global data collection
Helga Willer, FiBL
6.40-6.50 pm
Collection of the African data: Experiences of the 2008 survey
Hervé Bouagnimbeck, IFOAM
6.50-7.00 pm
Data based on information from operators: Opportunities and challenges
Munshimbwe Chitalu, Organic Producers and Processors Association of Zambia (OPPAZ), Coordinator/Chief Executive Officer
7.00-7.10 pm
Data based on information from inspection bodies: Opportunities and challenges
Anne Macey, Canadian Organic Growers
7.10-7.20 pm
Options for increased cooperation with inspection/certification bodies
Michel Reynaud, Ecocert
7.20-8.00 pm
Discussion
Background
The International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements IFOAM, the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture FiBL, Frick, and Foundation Ecology and Agriculture SOEL have been providing global organic farming statistics annually since 2000. In the framework of the survey the current number of farms and organic agricultural land is collected, and since the 2006 edition land use details have been included. The data are published annually in the yearbook ‘The World of Organic Agriculture’.
Even though in many countries the data availability has improved considerably since 2000, when the data collection was started, there are still major problems associated to data collection in many countries, particularly in countries which do not have a legislation on organic farming and where there is little public interest in such data. In these countries, data collection is carried out by the private sector who does not always have access to the full data and not always the resources to process the data.
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