T4SD Global Platform for Market Data on Organic Agriculture and Sustainability Standards

In this project, an internet-basedinformationsystemforVoluntary Sustainability Standards (VSS; including organic)production, domestic market and external trade data will be established, and a uniquedatabasewithtransparentand reliabledataonthesizeoftheVSSsector,notonly intheareaofproductionbutincreasinglyintheareaof domestic markets,export andimport will be built.

Theresults providedthroughthesedatacollectionactivities will be widely disseminated, aimingtoshowthatsustainableagriculturecanbeabusiness opportunity,inparticularfordevelopingcountries.Thedatawillbeusedbyawiderangeofgroupsincluding policymakers,traders,researchers,journalists,NGOsandinternationalorganisations,amongothers.

FiBL will, in close cooperation with the Internationl Trade Centre (ITC), coordinate data collection & processing on VSS in order to provide a sound basis for decision-making for successful development policies and businesses. A key tool to achieve this goal will be a set of VSS data to be added to the ITC database on the Standards Map website.  

• International Trade Centre  (ITC), Genf
• Schweizer Staatssekretariat for Wirtschaft (SECO)

• International Trade Centre  (ITC), Genf
• Institute of Sustainable Development (SSI), Sustainability Standards Inititative (SSI)

• Willer Helga (Department of Extension, Training & Communication)

• Dietemann Lauren (Department of Extension, Training & Communication)
• Kemper Laura (Department of Extension, Training & Communication)
• Lernoud Julia (Department of International Cooperation)
• Meier Claudia (Department of Food System Sciences)
• Schlatter Bernhard (Department of Food System Sciences)

Projektleitung/ Project leader

• Consumers & Food (Department of Food System Sciences, FiBL Switzerland)
• Project communication (Department of Extension, Training & Communication, FiBL Switzerland)