Capacity Development for Producers

Food and agribusiness chains are greatly affected by consumers’ concerns regarding food quality and safety and the sustainability of food production and handling methods. Higher consumer demands regarding the quality, traceability and environmental friendliness of products and processes call for fundamentally new ways of developing, producing and marketing products.

This triggers the development of grades and standards and agreements regarding good production and management practices, as well as adequate monitoring systems to guarantee prompt responses and quality compliance. Furthermore, mutual learning procedures and feed-back mechanisms are important to to achieve international collaboration between farmers, agro-industries and retail companies.

In this section websites dealing among others with the topics Food Safety, Organic Farming, Training Courses and Fair Trade can be found.