Markus Arbenz - TOFF

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TOFF The Organic Farmer Fair Warm Welcome from the Organic Movement

TOFF/Markus Arbenz, ED of IFOAM Organics International

Positioning Organic Agriculture Organic agriculture is more than covering a market’s demand

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Planet Boundaries/global challenges

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1. Biodiversity

Convention on Biological Diversity, CBD signed by 191 states. Since 1993.

Organic agriculture (OA) rotates crops and integrates biodiversity into production. Diversity of seeds and open access to seeds is basic concern of OA.

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2. Climate change Paris agreement (2015) signed by 175 states 111 ratifiziert by 111 states.

4%o Initiative (Soils for climate and food security).

UNFCCC has its seat in Bonn

Organic matter in the soil sequesters carbon and has very big potentials for being a sink

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3. Sustainable development/prevention of migration The difference between rich and poor is still very big.

Lack of opportunities in rural areas forces people to migrate into cities and into the countries of the global north. SDGs oblige all countries, not only developing countries.

Organic Agriculture is a development approach. Millions of farmers get improved perspectives. OA is an opportunity for international co-operations to reduce migration.

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Scaling up Agroecology

Standards Minimal Requirements

Practice Impact

Best Practice Objective

That’s Organic - Worldwide.

GLOBAL IFOAM Standard International Standard for Forest Garden Products (FGP)

AFRICA Tunisia Organic Regulation East African Organic Products Standard Siyavuna Organic Standards, South Africa Uganda Organic Standard, Uganda Zimbabwe Standard for Organic Farming, Zimbabwe

Korea Organic Regulation

AsureQuality Organic Standard, New Zealand

USA Organic Regulation

OFDC Organic Certification Standard, China

BioGro Organic Standards, New Zealand

Argencert Organic Standard, Argentina

Sunshine Earth Organic Standard, China HKORC Organic Standard, Hong Kong Biocert India Standards, India Japan Organic & Natural Foods Association Organic Standard, Japan MASIPAG Organic Standards, The Philippines DCOK, LLC International Standards, South Korea GOAA International Standards, South Korea

Letis IFOAM Accredited Standard, Argentina

EUROPE EU Organic Regulation Switzerland Organic Regulation Turkey Organic Regulation

Bio Suisse Standards, Switzerland

ACT Basic Standard, Thailand

Biocyclic Standards, Cyprus

Vietnam PGS Standards, Vietnam

Nature & Progrès Standards, France

OIA Organic Standards, Argentina Bolicert Private Standards, Bolivia IBD Organic Guidelines, Brazil DOAM Organic Standards, Dominica CCOF International Standard, USA Farm Verified Organic Requirements Manual, USA

The EcoWellness Standard, Germany CCPB Global Standard, Italy

OCEANIA

Krav Standards, Sweden

ASIA Asian Regional Organic Standard

Saudi Arabia Organic Regulation

National Standard for Organic and Bio-Dynamic Produce, Australia

THE AMERICAS

New Zealand Organic Export Regulation

China Organic Regulation

Pacific Organic Standard, Pacific Community

Argentina Organic Regulation

India Organic Regulation

Australian Certified Organic Standard, Australia

Canada Organic Regulation

NASAA Organic Standard, Australia

Ecuador Organic Regulation

Israel Organic Regulation Japan Organic Regulation

Costa Rica Organic Regulation

THE FAMILY OF STANDARDS contains all standards officially endorsed as organic by the Organic Movement, based on their equivalence with the Common Objectives and Requirements of Organic Standards. Both private standards and government regulations are admissible.

www.ifoam.bio/ogs Note: Applicant standards are marked in grey.

Family Standards Frame: December 29, 2016.

Click on each standard to see more details.

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True Cost Accounting: a feature of Organic 3.0

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in these settings, wherebillion each worker performs £12.75

Biodiversity loss

Thison is the most acute evidence of theof problem Breakdown negative system externality Breakdown of every hidden £1 spent food: the UK samefood task over and over again.

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Natural capital degradation

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Biodiversity loss

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Production-related ill-health

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Diet-related disease

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Imported food

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Farm support payments

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Regulation and research

of mental ill-health amongst farmers and their contrast to costs the situation in the declining number Food consumption-related health costs in 2015 25.7p families.

An article in Countryfile Magazine in of smaller abattoirs where workers are involved £44.91 billion 2015, published to coincide with the launch of in all imports aspects of slaughter, are able to see Food Farm support payments & 10.6pto raise awareness £9.22 billion a campaign about mental regulation as craftsmen and can take pride in Food production-related themselves health costs £6.36 billionexplained the health issues among farmers, 239 their job.

13.4p Natural capital degradation £16.08 billion background to the problem: ‘Farming is a high£30.93 billion pressure, 24/7 occupation with lack of days 37.3p Farm support payments and regulation off compared to almost all other professions, £6.36 billion and farmers difficult market Food consumption-related 7.8pface increasingly Over the last half century, food prices have health costs Biodiversity loss 240 pressures, the risk of disease infecting livestock risen slower than incomes and house £44.91 billion food £12.75 billion prices, Imported £9.22 billion and the2.5p potential of flooding to completely thereby appearing to decline overall, although decimate livelihoods’.236 food prices£120.25 in real terms today have hardly Total billion Food production-related 2.7p changed since the mid-1990s (bar a slight rise health costs There has been little if any analysis of the link £16.08 billion by a dip). between 2009 and 2014 followed between the exodus of small and medium-sized

The price of food

Total £1.00

Total £120.25 billion

farmers in recent decades and the incidence of A high proportion of these extra costs are depression and suicide. Between 1995 and 2014 the number paid by UK consumers through general and of dairy farms in the UK declined from 35,741 to just 13,815, almost 22,000 farmers local taxation, water charges and bottled and their families inNatural total.237capital degradation

water purchases, private healthcare insurance, emissions and air pollution Most of these relateGHG to dairy farmers who were and lost income. Others are paid overnotime to Food waste across total longer able to make a living due the to growing UK food system mitigate longer-term impacts such assupermarket global dominance of the industry, the degradation including disbandment Milk Marketing Board, the warming, ozone depletion, soil degradation andof theSoil soil carbon ending of a fair national priceloss for milk paid to biodiversity loss.

Water costs attributable

Food production-related health costs £14.23 billion

Antibiotic resistance Food poisoning

£12 billion £3.21 billion

Organophosphate pesticides Colon cancer linked to nitrate in drinking water

£2.34 billio

£1.7 billio

£12 billio

£43.5 millio

all farmers regardless of their location, and the Total £16.08 billio to agriculture £1.49 billion We have been led to believe that we removal are of milk quotas - all changes which were £30.93 billion politically driven, atTotal least in part. There have spending less on food than ever before. Food The price of food hassupport been driven down by competition Farm payments & regulation also been similar declines in the number of beef between supermarkets, but farmers and the environment pay prices as a proportion of income havecattle fallen Rural producers. InBiodiversity all these cases, for this (Photo: AlexDevelopment Segre / Alamy)Programme, administration loss the farmers

regulation and research £3.35 billio significantly. However, in reality, for every £1 we Loss of ecosystem biodiversity 44 Basic Payments Scheme £2.95 billio spend on food, we pay another £1 in hidden due to agriculture £12.75 billion food and farming Gary researchNaylor) £56.2 millio The true cost of nitrogen fertiliser use is three times greater than its commercial benefit toBBSRC farmers (Photo: ways.

Food consumption-related health costs

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£6.36 billio

Cardiovascular disease, diabetes, 93 a This calculation is based on the assumption that of restaurants spend around 30% of theirand budgets on food,the drinksworld’s and condiments, it is farmers.

The summer floods 2007 affected 37somajor aquifers ha Food imports cancer and dental caries 21 of£22.94 billion appropriate to include 30% of the £85.4 billion spent on catering services – that is £25.6 billion - to actual ‘catering food spend’ in 2015.

Malnutrition £17 billion 42,000 hectares UKUKfarmland andistotal cost sustainability tipping points, NetLang hidden cost of food imports £9.22 billion b A commonly cited figure of for total consumer food spend £201 billion.

For example,reached a recent papertheir

by Professor Tim Topic / Title and of presentation 1 obesityon data in the £3.97 billion colleagues, ‘A Food Brexit: time to get real’ (2017) cites the £201 billionOverweight figure. Thisand is based Food Statistics Pocketbook 2015 of damage (including damage toTrends households, there onisalcoholic mounting concern about the1 need published in 2016 (which in turn relies on Consumer ONS data),Hypertension and includes expenditure £1drinks billion (£49 billion) as well as

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The countries with the highest market growth in Europe Europe: The countries with the highest growth of the organic market 2014-2015 Source: FiBL-AMI Survey 2017

Spain Ir eland Swede n Belg ium N or way It aly Fra nce Eur ope EU D enm ark N eth erlan ds G erm any

24,8% 23,0% 20,3% 18,0% 15,9% 15,0% 14,6% 13,0% 12,6% 12,0% 11,5% 11,1% 0%

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Figure 2: Organic penetration rates are on the rise in Western Europe and the US, 2005-2025f penetration rate

16% 14% 12% 10% 8% 6% 4% 2% 0%

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2015

2025f conservative

2025f base case

2025f optimistic

Source: Euromonitor, Rabobank 2016

With the exception of the UK, penetration rates rose in all markets Topic analysed between 2005 / Title of presentation 1 4 nd 2015. In terms of uptake, there is clearly a difference between northern and central

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