On 11 - 14 February 2025, the organic community will again meet in Nuremberg (Germany) at the World's Leading Trade Fair for Organic Food BIOFACH 2025. Regional, national and international stakeholders from the entire organic value chain, as well as representatives of public authorities, service providers, and NGOs will gather here to explore market opportunities, trade organic products, network, and consolidate their joint vision for a more sustainable future.
A high-ranking delegation from Ukraine with representatives from the dairy and pig sectors, the Ukrainian Food Safety Agency and the Ukrainian parliament visited Germany and the federal state of Lower Saxony last week. The theme of the study tour was “Eurointegration of the livestock sector – German experiences for Ukraine”.
Since August last year, Ukrainian farmers and processors have been able to obtain certification under the Ukrainian law on organic farming. The food safety authorities of the Ukrainian oblasts play an important role in the control of these organic farms.
On October 15, 2024, Oleksandr Kaliberda, Long-term expert of the German-Ukrainian Cooperation in Organic Agriculture (COA) took part in “Food Systems Transformation in Ukraine - Prospects for Long-Term Sustainable Development” Forum which was held at the Headquarters of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) in Rome, Italy.
This was the title of another very interesting event on organic farming that took place in Ukraine on 15 October. After the introductory words of welcome, many companies and scientists from Ukraine, as well as other speakers from around the world, provided information on this topic in a large number of informative presentations.
Anastasiya Volkova is head of the NGO 'Permaculture in Ukraine' and a member of the core team of the NGO 'Global Ecovillage Network Ukraine'. The ecological activist lives and coordinates an ecovillage around 80 kilometers south of Kyiv together with others. bioPress was able to interview her about the current situation and future prospects thanks to the German-Ukrainian Cooperation in Organic Agriculture (COA) project.
The official opening took place on September 03, 2024 at the University’s Faculty of Veterinary Medicine. It started by the welcoming speeches from Prof. Dr. Tkachuk Vadym, Rector of the University, Prof. Dr. Mykola Tsvilikhovskyi, Dean of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, and Dr. Stefan Dreesmann, Project Leader of the project “German-Ukrainian Cooperation in Organic Agriculture”.
Since August last year, Ukrainian farmers and processors have been able to obtain certification under the Ukrainian law on organic farming. The Food Safety Agency (FSA) of the Ukrainian oblasts play an important role in controlling these organic farms. In order to support the representatives of the consumer protection authorities in this task, the "German-Ukrainian Cooperation in Organic Farming (COA)" project held a second, multi-day practical training on organic farms in the first week of July. The COA project is financed by the German Ministry of Food and Agriculture.
Organic farmers from Ukraine learnt about biodynamic farms in the federal state of Brandenburg and in Berlin
On May 23, 2024, Polissya National University and Organic Federation of Ukraine held the XIth International Scientific and Practical Conference "Organic Production and Food Security" in Zhytomyr. More than 120 scientists, producers, government officials, representatives of public and international organizations, as well as students participated in this event which took place in a hybrid format with the support of "German-Ukrainian Cooperation in the Field of Organic Agriculture" (COA) project.
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