Idea: Establish a smallholder-centred global organic research platform

IDEA:‘Establish a Smallholder-Centred

Global Organic Research Platform’

The ProblemThere is a major gap in the provision and global coordination of smallholder driven agricultural science, knowledge and technology.

MethodIFOAM, the global umbrella organization for Organic Agriculture with

over 700 organizations in 120 countries is establishing a platform that will facilitate participation and collaboration amongst farmer organizations, civil

society, NGOs, UN and aid agencies, and governments to scale-up organic agriculture solutions to global challenges. The platform will put the needs of smallholders and their livelihoods at the center of the research agenda.

The Solution

Establish an end-user driven global platform for linking and strengthening smallholder farmers around the world by building capacity and mobilizing partnerships for research. It will assists small-scale producers in developing countries alleviate poverty, establish food sovereignty, and meet food security and nutritional needs, and address

climate and land degradation challenges through ecologically sound and socially just farming systems.

INTERESTED IN PARTICIPATING? CONTACT R.JORDAN@IFOAM.ORG