BioFach 2012

14.00 - 15.00, Room St. Petersburg

Latest statistics and market data on organic agriculture world-wide.

Moderator

• Markus Arbenz (IFOAM, D)

Speakers

• Helga Willer (FiBL, CH) 
• Amarjit Sahota (Organic Monitor, UK)
• Beate Huber (FiBL, CH)

Related link

organic-world.net: Information on "The World of Organic Agriculture 2012"

16.00 - 17.30, Room Prag

Situation and trends in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovenia, Albania, and the Ukraine

Speakers

• Urs Niggli (FiBL, CH)
• Dóra Drexler (ÖMKi, H)
• Anamarija Slabe (Institute for Sustainable Development, SLO)
• Jiri Urban (Bioinstitut,o.p.s, CZ)
• Tobias Eisenring (FiBL, CH)
• Iris Kazazi (Albanian Association of Marketing(AAM), AL)

16.00 - 17.30, Room Budapest

Chancen und Herausforderungen für Bio-Produkte aus Übersee

Moderator

Beate Huber (FiBL, CH)

Referenten

• Markus Hyndes (BIOFRUSAN, fruitwork Handelsgesellschaft mbH, D)
• Dr. Jochen Neuendorff (Gesellschaft für Ressourcenschutz (GfRS) GmbH, D)
• Marco Lange (AGRA-TEG Agrar- und Umwelttechnik GmbH, D)

10.00 - 11.00, Room Istanbul

Nachhaltigkeitsindikatoren, Praxisbeispiel Märkisches Landbrot, externes KMU-Ranking. Mit diesem Seminar erhalten kleine und mittlere Unternehmen Informationen über sinnvolle Instrumente zur Ausgestaltung ihrer Nachhaltigkeitsberichte und über Bewertungsmaßstäbe externer Rankings.

Moderator

• Yvonne Henkel (Assoziation ökologischer Lebensmittel Hersteller (AOEL), D)

Referenten

• Christian Schader (FiBL, CH)
• Udo Westermann (future e.V., D)
• Katja Pampel (Märkisches Landbrot GmbH, D)

11.00 - 12.30, Room Istanbul

How to maintain the leadership position? Organic stakeholders’ and competitors’ strategies leading towards sustainability.

Moderator

• Markus Arbenz (IFOAM, D)

Speakers

• Urs Niggli (FiBL, CH)
• Volkert Engelsman (EOSTA B.V. Organic Fruit & Vegetables, NL)
• Helmy Abouleish (Sekem Group, ET)
• Francis Blake (Soil Association Ltd., UK)
• Michael Kuhndt (UNEP/Wuppertal Institute Collaborating Centre on Sustainable Consumption and Production GmbH (CSCP), D)

13.00 - 14.30, Room Singapur

The bilateral cooperation project on Organic Agriculture, implemented by the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL) in close cooperation with the Turkish Ecological Agricultural Organization (ETO) aims at supporting the development of the organic agriculture sector in Turkey and at promoting the export of organic products into the European market. This includes raising awareness of sustainable quality assurance and capacity building.

Presenter

• Federal Office for Agriculture and Food (BLE)
• FiBL

Speakers

• Welcome address by Director-General Clemens Neumann (German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture)
• Welcome address by a representative of the Federal Office for Agriculture and Food
• Welcome address by Vildan Karaarslan (Turkish Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Animal Husbandry)
• Presentation on the relevance of organic agriculture in Turkey by Atila Ertem (ETO President)
• Presentation on the organic Turkish control system and legal framework by Vildan Karaarslan (Turkish Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Animal Husbandry)
• Presentation on the German-Turkish Cooperation Project Organic Agriculture by Elisabeth Rüegg (Project Coordinator)
• Presentation on the relevance of the project for the Izmir Organic Cluster by Ekin Taskin (EIB Project Coordinator)

The Turkish Cooperation Project Organic Agriculture, running from 01.12.2011- 31.12.2013, is part of the bilateral cooperation Programme of the German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL, www.bmel-kooperationsprogramm.de) in cooperation with the Turkish Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock. General agent for BMELV’s cooperation programme is GFA Consulting Group GmbH. Implementing project partners are FiBL FiBL Projekte GmbH, Frankfurt/ Main (Germany), FiBL Frick (Switzerland) and Ekolojik Tarım Organizasyonu Derneği, Izmir (Turkey).

13.00 - 14.00, Room Seoul

Moderator

• Andrzej Szeremeta (IFOAM EU Group, B)

Speakers

• Andreas Stamer (FiBL, CH)
• Nina Baumgartner (ICEA - Instituto per la Certificazione Etica e Ambientale, I)

13.00 - 15.00, Room Hongkong

Organic market developments in established & key emerging markets

Moderator

• Markus Arbenz

Speakers

• Laura Batcha (Organic Trade Association OTA, US): The US market for organic food
• Helga Willer (Research Institute of Organic Agriculture, FiBL, Switzerland): The European market for organic food
• Diana Schaack (Agrarmarkt Informations-Gesellschaft mbH AMI, Germany): The German market for organic food
• Susanne Padel (The Organic Research Centre, UK), The UK market for organic food
• Anais Riffiod (L'Agence BIO, France): The French market for organic food
• Bernd Jansen (Ekoconnect, Germany): The organic market in the Central Eastern European countries
• Burkhard Schaer (Ecozept GbR, Germany): The Balkan countries
• Vitoon Panyakul (Green Net Cooperative, Thailand). The market in South East Asia

14.00 - 15.30, Room Shanghai

Challenges for the organic sector/Herausforderungen für die Biobranche (simultaneously translated)

Moderator

• Urs Niggli (FiBL, CH)

Speakers

• Christian Schader (FiBL, CH)
• Ulrich Hamm (Universität Kassel, D)
• Werner Lampert (Zurück zum Ursprung, A)
• Simona Matt (Coop Schweiz, CH)

10.00 - 11.00, Room Prag

Recommendations based on an economic analysis of organic certification systems

Speakers

• Stephan Dabbert (Universität Hohenheim, D)
• Lizzie Melby Jespersen (International Centre for Research in Organic Food Systems (ICROFS), Aarhus University, DK)
• Mathias Stolze (FiBL, CH)
• Ulrich Hamm (Universitat Kassel, D)
• Raffaele Zanoli (DIIGA - Università Politecnica delle Marche, I)

11.00 - 12.00, Room Prag

Wie viele Bio-Rohstoffe und Frischeprodukte kommen aus welchen Ländern nach Deutschland?

Referenten

• Diana Schaack (Agrarmarkt Informations-Gesellschaft mbH (AMI), D)
• Christine Rampold (Agrarmarkt Informations-Gesellschaft mbH (AMI), D)
• Helga Willer (FiBL, CH)
• Markus Rippin (Agromilagro research, D)

11.00 - 12.30, Room St. Petersburg

Panel discussion on the implications of revised import regulation

Moderator

• Beate  Huber (FiBL, CH)

Speakers

• Jean-François Hulot (European Commission, B)
• Michel Reynaud (EOCC, B)
• Bavo van den Idsert (IFOAM EU Group, B)
• Laura Montenegro (Argencert S.A., Argentina)
• Arjon Kalter (Tradin Organic Agriculture BV, NL)

12.00 - 13.00, Room Istanbul

The organizations working on the development of these guidelines (SHL, FiBL) will present scope and current state, the implications for the organic sector and will allow participants to directly give input from their perspective.

Moderator

• Urs Niggli (FiBL, CH)

Speakers

• Christian Thalmann (Schweizerische Hochschule für Landwirtschaft (SHL), CH)
• Christian Schader (FiBL, CH)

14.00 - 15.00, Room St. Petersburg

An update on trade discussions between the US and EU from regulatory, certifier / control body, and industry representatives.

Speakers

• Bob Anderson (Sustainable Strategies LLC, US)
• Miles McEvoy (U.S. department of Agriculture National Organic Program, US)
• Jake Lewin (Callifornia Certified Organic Farmers (CCOF), US)
• Beate Huber (FiBL, CH)
• Kelly Strzelecki (United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), US)
• Jean-François Hulot (European Commission, EU)

15.00 - 16.00, Room Honkong

Product improvement and regulatory impacts on sensory quality of organic food, and organic information system (OSIS) as a marketing tool

Speakers

• Otto Schmid (FiBL, CH)
• Lukas Baumgart (FiBL, CH)

11.00 - 12.00, Room Oslo

Working together to strengthen organic food and farming in the next EU framework programme

Speakers

• Eduardo Cuoco (IFOAM EU Group, EU)
• Urs Niggli (FiBL, CH)
• Otto Schmid (FiBL, CH)
• Susanne Padel (The Organic Research Centre, UK)
• Cristina Micheloni (Associazione Italiana per l'Agricoltura Biologica (AIAB), I)

12.00 - 13.30, Room Oslo

European bee-keepers have won the first fight against GMO but what is the impact on organic bee-keepers worldwide and on the further development of organic bee-keeping?

Moderator

• Salvador Garibay (FiBL, CH)

Speakers

• Bernadette Oehen (FiBL, CH)
• Walter Haefeker (European Professional Beekeepers Association EPBA, B): Freedom of choice, coexistence and zero-tolerance - The application of the core principles of EU GMO legislation to bee products and services
• Hanspeter Schmidt (Rechtsanwaltskanzlei Hanspeter Schmidt, D): Organic Honey and GMO 2012 (Biohonig und GVO 2012)
• Ruben Parra (Apis alimentaria, MEX): Consequences for organic beekeepers in countries of the south from the certification point of view
• Ulrich Bröker (APICON Organic Apiculture Consulting Services, D): Current development and strategies against GMO-contamination in organic bee-keeping and Consequences of the European Court of Justice ECJ decision of Sept. 6th, 2011 on the zero tolerance to pollen from GMOs in bee products