We are pivoting our Organic Business to Business incoming buyer missions to an online B2B format. The second mission held during the week of Monday, December 7th to 11th, will be focused on connecting Canadian Organic commodities for raw ingredients with USA, Latin American, European and Asian markets.
Please forward your completed forms to cbernard@canada-organic.ca
This event is designed to provide the organic community the opportunity to connect virtually on critical industry issues and learn best practises from industry leaders from across the country and around the world. This year, the conference will be held over an entire week to ensure that we are able to provide our members from coast to coast the opportunity to maximize our speaker line up and attend all sessions.
A phenomenal line up of speakers ranging from IFOAM International, Rodale Institute, leaders from the agroecological movement, authors, seed savers and of course, we welcome government to present to stakeholders. The content will focus on big topics such as resiliency and food security, Organics 3.0 and how it interfaces with the regenerative movement, how conservation efforts and organic play nicely together, Indigenous approaches to agriculture, organic consumer trends, Organic Standards update and much more.
There will be three presenters daily with some workshops thrown into the mix so that we can continue to move the needle forward for organic.
This webinar will be hosted by APEDA and COTA. It has come to light that there is a lack of clarity on import and export requirements on organic trade with India recently. COTA and APEDA are collaborating to ensure that Indian Exporters and Canadian importers are clear on the Canada Organic Regime requirements. We will also be using this session to allow importers and exporters to present their businesses during the session as we aim to make it an interactive session. An e-database will be created of all the attendees of the webinar to help facilitate trade between the two countries.
Opportunities for Organic Trade between Canada and India
Wednesday, Oct 14, 2020 11:00am-1:00pm EDT
Meeting number: 156 384 2529
Password: ORG@2020
https://apeda.webex.com/apeda/j.php?MTID=mc78cd78c4811db55a9f044454387bea6
3:00-4:00pm EDT
Tia Loftsgard, Executive Director , Canada Organic Trade Association (COTA)Sébastien Houle, General Manager, Ecocert Canada
With scientists estimates of only about 60 years of topsoil remaining at current practices, the need to have organic, regenerative and fair trade practices incorporated into one standard was seen as essential by the Rodale Institute who developed the Regenerative Organic Certified (ROC) program. Attend this session which will delve into the new ROC program which was piloted in Canada by Nature’s Path Foods on Legend Organic Farms (which is associated with the company). We will discuss the merits of the program yet also discuss consumer confusion around the term regenerative, which is being used by non-organic businesses currently.
