The Organic World Congress of IFOAM - Organics International is held every 3 years in a different country. The aim of the congress and related activities (pre-conference, General Assembly, side-events and organic exhibition) is to share experiences, innovations, and knowledge about the organic world while giving the organizing country global visibility. In 2017, the congress will take place in India.
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The 19th OWC is structured in four conference tracks: Main Track, Farmers' Track, Scientific Track, and Marketing Track.
The Main Track, composed of two parallel sessions, is a series of public discussions and debates by leaders from the organic movement on how we can best promote and implement the organic agenda. The overarching theme is “Global Adoption of Organic Principles for Truly Sustainable Agriculture' and the audience is invited to contribute to strategic discussions with the panel experts.
The Farmers’ Track provides a forum to highlight farmers’ work in organic especially with regards to innovations used on their farms. Presentations will be on the topics of Seeds & Biodiversity, Soil Fertility & Health, Soil Life & Plant Health, and Ecological Farming Practices & Systems.
The Scientific Track is a platform where research results are presented and discussed in 20 sessions of 1.5 hours each. Papers must link to scientific disciplines such as soil, plant, animal, or economics. All papers should give at least an outline of how the research presented contributes to Organic 3.0 - The next phase of organic development.
The Marketing Track discusses innovative ideas for shortening value chains, for systems that build trust between actors, for promising marketing methods and for organic and fair trade alliance building. Papers are called for that deal with emerging trends in quality assurance, e.g. PGS (Participatory Guarantee Systems), CSA (Community Supported Agriculture), fair trade and other alternative and integrative systems.
With India winning the bid to host the 19th Organic World Congress (OWC), preparations are at full steam to celebrate, share experiences, innovations, knowledge and meet stakeholders from across the world at the India Expo Centre and Mart, Greater Noida from 9 – 11 November 2017.
OWC 2017 was a truly astonishing event, with more than 10,000 participants attending the Festival, the BIOFACH India/APEDA Trade Fairs, and the Conference. We were also pleased to welcome the 350 people who participated in the global General Assembly.
We were delighted by the huge effort to enable organic farmers from across the world to participate. Over 1000 farmers attended, and this led to a massive exchange of organic agriculture innovations, particularly advanced organic techniques. 2479 delegates from 90 countries joined the Organic World Congress, plus over 7000+ day visitors. The majority of came from Asia, Africa, and Latin America, and with organic trade missions from 40 countries we truly can call this a global event!
This 19th OWC was a truly inspiring experience, showing that together we can further up-scale Organic Agriculture and mainstream truly sustainable farming systems. We look forward to seeing you in France in 2020!
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The OWC will be attended by organic farmers, scientists, central and state agriculture departments and agencies, foreign governments, those involved in organic trade, certification agencies, etc.
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