IFOAM Euro-Asia

IFOAM Euro-Asia is the regional alliance working to nurture the organic food and farming sector in Euro-Asian countries.

The alliance aims to create a single organic market and foster cooperation across the sector. Through effective implementation of the four principles of organic agriculture, IFOAM Euro-Asia preserves bio-cultural diversity and nurtures conditions to grow the organic movement in the following countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Ukraine.

 

Objectives:

  • To build a strong organic management that responds to environmental and food security challenges. This is achieved by strengthening the capacity of organic leaders in the IFOAM - Organics International Organic Leadership Academy;
  • To develop and adopt a set of harmonized organic standards that can be adapted to all member countries; 
  • To promote organic development interests at the regional and international levels;
  • To introduce and implement joint organic regional projects and programs;
  • To conduct training and foster exchange between national trainers;
  • To train national certification agencies and develop national certification bodies;
  • To provide assistance in preparing national legislation;
  • To conduct research (e.g. training guidelines), or assist with research, for organic production.

Contact

IFOAM Euro-Asia office
Aidaraliev Iskender, President
Abrakhmanov Str. 9, Jalal- Abad in Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic.
info@euro-asia.ifoam.org

Board Members 

  • Iskenderbek Aidaraliev, President of Bio-KG Federation of Organic Development, Kyrgyzstan.
    aidaraliev.i@gmail.com
  • Evgeniy Klimov, President of Fund for Integration of Ecological Culture (FIEC), Kazakhstan.
    fiec@mail.ru
  • Elshad Rzayev, Business Consultant at Ganja Agribusiness Association (GABA), Azerbaijan
  • Beso Kalandadze, Director of Ecological Farming Association of Georgia (SEMA), Georgia.
    ecosema@gmail.com
  • Irina Sardarova, Consultant at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation, Russia
  • Maksud Buzrukov, Director of Public Union - Center of Development of Organic Production SAS Organic, Tajikistan.
    mbuzrukov@sas.tj
  • Eugene Milovanov, President of Organic Federation of Ukraine, Ukraine. 
    ofu@organic.com.ua
  • Nune Darbinyan, Director General of Ecoglobe, LLC, Armenia. 
    nuneemil@yahoo.com
  • Viorel Gherciu, President of ProRuralInvest, Moldova. 
    vgherciu@gmail.com
  • Kubondik Hotamov, Uzbekistan.
  • Natalia Porechina, Representative of the Center for Environmental Solutions, Belarus.
    vinograd@tut.by

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