Organic Agriculture in Abu Dhabi

The project will establish the Organic Agriculture Section (OAS) of the Abu Dhabi Farmer Services Centre (ADFSC). It will build capacities among organic stakeholders in Abu Dhabi by trainings and applied research/demonstration and other means in order to increase awareness about organic agriculture and food, facilitate conversion to organic agriculture and enable market sales of organic farm products in Abu Dhabi.

Project activities:

• Establish and efficient management of the project and deployment of resources.
• Build competence among ADFSC advisory and applied research staff working for OAS with regard to the potential, benefits, challenges, regulations and techniques of organic agriculture.
• Provide ADFSC access to a pool of competent experts on all aspects of organic farming, sustainable agriculture and food chains.
• Inform the private and public stakeholders of the organic agriculture sector in Abu Dhabi about the specific potential, benefits, challenges, regulations and techniques of organic agriculture.
• Provide farmers’ access to organic agriculture techniques through knowledge transfer, pilot farms and on-farm research.
• Increase awareness about oganic agriculture and food.
• Implement a comprehensive, pragmatic organic solution oriented research and demonstration programme.
• Provide services to enable market sales of organic farm products in Abu Dhabi.
• Raise the awareness of Abu Dhabi consumers about the benefits of organic agriculture and food.

• Further programmes

• Abu Dhabi Farmer Services Centre

• Huber Beate (Department of International Cooperation; Vice-chairwoman of the Management Board)

• Bernet Thomas (Department of International Cooperation)
• Conder Malgorzata (Department of Finances, Resources & Administration)
• Gattinger Andreas (FiBL Germany)
• Nicolay Gian L. (Department of International Cooperation)
• Richter Toralf (Department of International Cooperation)
• van den Berge Paul (Department of International Cooperation)
• Wilbois Klaus-Peter ()
• Willer Helga (Department of Extension, Training & Communication)

Project implementation

• Animal Housing & Livestock Breeding (Department of Livestock Sciences, FiBL Switzerland)
• Policy & Sector Development (Department of International Cooperation, FiBL Switzerland)
• Project communication (Department of Extension, Training & Communication, FiBL Switzerland)
• Value chains & Markets (Department of International Cooperation, FiBL Switzerland)