New regulations for zero deforestation cocoa
Cocoa production has contributed significantly to deforestation, a major cause of climate change and the collapse of biodiversity. To curb this phenomenon, in 2023 the European Union adopted a regulation banning the import of products that have contributed to deforestation from 2021, applicable from 2025. For their part, Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire have produced the […]
Regulate value chains and trade to reach sustainable and equitable food systems
Following decades of unbridled liberalization, recent crises (COVID-19 pandemic, wars, and food crisis) and rising figures on hunger are recalling the need to regulate food systems. New measures such as mirror clauses and anti-deforestation measures are being added to the European Union (EU) agenda for regulation of value chains and trade, marking the timid return […]
Organic Certification Preparation Manual
This guide is specifically intended for Producer Organisations (POs) located incountries outside the European Union (EU), as well as for AVSF’s technical teamsworking with them. Its objective is to describe the different stages of organic certification, and tohighlight the difficulties that can be encountered, in order to anticipate and planas well as possible this process […]
Short supply chains supported by AVSF
Numerous projects implemented by AVSF and together with farming families and their organisations, as well as other private and public players, have led to the development of short supply chains as defined by the French Ministry of Agriculture and Food Sovereignty: “a method of marketing agricultural products which is carried out either by direct sale […]
Guidelines for designing capacity-building programs for farmers’ organizations
Guidelines for designing capacity-building programs for farmers’ organizations Against a backdrop of growing inequalities between farmers worldwide and the exclusion of smallholders, the NGO Agronomes et Vétérinaires Sans Frontières (AVSF) works with farmers’ organizations in the South to help them develop their capacities to participate directly in conventional markets and work together under better conditions. AVSF also helps […]
For a system of fair trade which favours rural farming organisations
AVSF and fair trade For a fair trade that serves rural farming organizations Reference text Fair trade labelling was launched in the context of an economic crisis (at the end of the 1980s, beginning of the 90s) which was caused by low prices and the great difficulty faced by small producers in gaining access to […]
