Ecology & Organic TradeActual Projects & Referencies
Marketing of regional organic meat
Consultant of the institute, of BNN and external experts have consulted project group covering the whole branch with farmers, processors, traders and gastronomes and their enterprises for regional marketing of organic meat. The topics ranged from the switching over of production over logistic issues and calculations, criteria of regional quality, marketing support, and merchandise presentation to development of regionally and product specific advertisements.
The approach which covers numerous spheres secured intense communication and mutual understanding for problems and demands of the partners. At the same time, more than 250 managers and employees of at least 60 health food shops were qualified in the whole of NRW. An emphasis was
Countrywomen and Organic Farming in Latvia
In 1995, the consultants of the institute have started their activities with twelve women of the group LIEPA. These activities have been bundled and intensified within the project which is financed by the European Union. Through training and consultancy in Latvia and educative journeys to Germany, knowledge in management, basics in organic farming, organisation of work, customer orientation and marketing was teached.
The countrywomen´s enterprises have all developed exceedingly well. The women´ s role in the families and their working position on the farms have considerably improved. It could be transferred and practiced in every-day-life. At the end of the project in 2000, the group had increased to more than forty women. Some of them
Conference of Countrywomen in Latvia
Latvia has entered the European Union on 1 May 2004. Thus, considerable structural changes are to be expected for agriculture and the rural areas. In view of great structural changes, countrywomen´s organizations and organic farming can play an essential role in the preservation of the economic and social basic of living in the rural areas.
In March 2004, the equalita Institute held a conference in Latvia, dealing with the meaning and perspectives of the countrywomen´s movement and the sustainable agriculture in Latvia in view of Latvia´s forthcoming membership in the European Union. The conference was supposed to facilitate an exchange of information and experience between representatives of Latvian and German countrywomen (e.g., the Latv