Through short talks organised by the Natexbio Federation / La Maison de la Bio, this area offers an economic and statistical update on the organic market and its potential: labels, communication, consumer perception of organic, digital, resilience of the organic supply chain, CSR, etc.
Conferences Programmes
MONDAY 23 OCTOBER
10:00am – 11:00am Philippe Mouillard, Biotopia : Organic market data and trends
3:00pm – 4:00pm Bio Partenaire et AVSF
“Dual Fair Trade and Organic certification as a lever for the ecological transition of production and processing methods in West Africa: examples and testimonies from partner cooperatives of the Fair Trade Programme”.
With Mr. Pierre DUBUIT, in charge of the “Producers’ Organisation and Market” Programme for the NGO Agronomes et Vétérinaires Sans Frontières (AVSF), Mr. Fulbert DAGO, Deputy Head of the Sub-regional Equity Programme for AVSF, based in Abidjan (who will be at the show), Mr. Camille ABOU OI ABOU, President of the Mawoubé Agricultural Cooperative in Yèrèyrè in the Abengourou region of Côte d’Ivoire (who will be at the show).
After a contextual introduction to the growing trend towards dual certification for Organic Agriculture and Fair Trade, the concrete results achieved by AVSF’s West African partner cooperatives under the sub-regional Equity Programme will be presented under 4 headings:
– Protection and restoration of natural ecosystems (e.g. shea butter parks)
– Agro-ecological transition of cocoa-growing systems
– Transformation, energy efficiency and management of agri-food residues
– Socio-economic impact of certification
Finally, the testimony of a manager of an Ivorian cocoa cooperative certified as Fair Trade and AB will provide concrete examples and details of how AVSF’s support under the same programme has enabled an agro-ecological transition in cocoa-growing systems.
TUESDAY 24 OCTOBER
10:00am – 11:00am Biotopia, presentation of the Organic Catalogue solution, designed for points of sale, with the use of digitisation of a product range
11:00am – 12:00pm Bio Equitable en France, BioPartenaire and Commerce Equitable France
“Fair Trade to boost organic farming”, which will look at the positive dynamic of Fair Trade and how it complements organic farming, and will show that Fair Trade has a positive dynamic and complements organic farming.
