BvAT at the 1st Networking Workshop “Boosting the Role and Potential of Organic Farming in Africa”
The inaugural networking workshop for the BMZ-GIZ Organic Knowledge Hubs for Africa was held in SEKEM, Egypt from 2nd to 4th April 2019. The event Organized by the SEKEM Development Foundation and Heliopolis University for Sustainable Development with kind support from the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), was organized under the theme: “Boosting the Role and Potential of Organic Farming in Africa” to discuss the roll out and implementation of the BMZ-GIZ supported Organic Knowledge Hubs in Africa. The event brought together about 40 participants drawn from GIZ, European partners (IFOAM OI, FiBL, Naturaland, Access Agriculture), potential partners from Southern Africa and from the Ecological Organic Agriculture institutions from Eastern, Southern, Western and Northern Africa. Among the participants were the grant winning organizations that will take the lead in the implementation of the Organic Knowledge Hubs in the different regions namely Eastern, West and Southern Africa. Biovision Africa Trust was feted as the host and lead organization for the Eastern Africa region which will operate the […]