This document sets out international requirements for organic certification bodies (IROCB). These requirements are intended to represent a consensus on good practices in organic conformity assessment among private and public institutions. IROCB aims to provide a baseline for assessing the equivalence of services performed by various certification bodies outside a...

The main purpose for the establishment of AROS is to facilitate equivalence between organic standards and certification programmes within and beyond the Asia region. It was also anticipated that AROS could be adapted to serve as the national standard for some of the individual countries in the region. The Global...

The Global Organic Market Access (GOMA) project2 , a joint FAO, IFOAM and UNCTAD initiative, works towards reducing the barriers to trade in organic products. In seeking to reduce those barriers, GOMA works to facilitate harmonization and especially equivalence between different countries’, and private sector, systems for organic standards and...

The overall aims of the study are to: Gain a deeper understanding of smallholder commercialisation and its strengths and weaknesses in contributing to broad-based growth. Strengthen understanding of the context in which policy choices have to be made. Help identify innovative ways to link public funding with private sector resources. Provide specific advice to...

This report was prepared as background information for the FAO/ISEAL expert meeting on Climate Standards for Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing held in Rome on 11 November 2009. The report aims to scope the possibility for a modular climate assurance system that can be applied in the agriculture, forestry and fishery...

This study is commissioned by the Global Organic Market Access (GOMA) project, a collaboration among FAO, UNCTAD and IFOAM, to provide information that enables stakeholders and GOMA to develop an optimal strategy for facilitating organic trade (and thereby also organic sector development in Asia) through equivalence, harmonization and/or other forms...