IFOAM Europe celebrates this year its 20th birthday. Director Eduardo Cuoco underlined in IFOAM Organics Europe newsletter: “We are turning 20 and will celebrate 20 years of representing the European organic movement at the heart of the European Union. Our colleagues at IFOAM Organics International and IFOAM Asia are respectively celebrating their 50th and 10th birthdays. Our anniversary is the perfect opportunity to look back at our successes in transforming the European food and farming system and thank farmers, processors, retailers, certifiers, and other organic stakeholders for making this possible”.
“Changing our food system – Cuoco wrote in his note – is more important than ever. Organic can make a crucial contribution to the climate crisis and biodiversity loss and hence, protect the very earth we are living on.Together with our network from all over Europe, staff, supporters, decision-makers and other stakeholders from the agri-food and environmental sector, we will celebrate our anniversary and the Year of Organics throughout 2022, including an anniversary event in summer 2022”.
On 15-18 February in Nuremberg, IFOAM Organics Europe will contribute to BIOFACH 2022 by organising sessions on new policy and regulatory frameworks for organic, the new EU Organic Action Plan, digital technology for local and small-scale processing, climate change, pesticides and more.The full programme will be soon available on BIOFACH’s and IFOAM Europe website.
