iCow, a highly successful mobile application that supports farmers caring for livestock
Su Kahumbu who advised farmers for many years in our magazine "The Organic Farmer" created the innovative mobile app. What features iCow has, tells Su Kahumbu in this article.
Hans Herren on www.unep.org
Hans R. Herren about the perspectives on the 2012 UN Conference on Sustainable Development in an article published by the UNEP. He writes: "The problems are identified, possible pathways to solve them exist - let us start to change policies and structures that have misconstrued agriculture and the whole food system for over fifty years."
Sustainable Agriculture: Zero Draft Proposals – What will deliver the change we need?
Dialogue on Thursday, 15th December, organized by Biovision and the Swiss Agency for Development with the Millennium Institute, the More and Better Network, and IFOAM, the international umbrella organization of ecological agriculture.
Sustainable Agriculture at Rio+20
UNECE Regional Preparatory Meeting on the 1st of December in Geneva
Stop DDT
On 30th November 2011 the peer-review Journal "PLoS ONE" published a study that is an important milestone in our long term campaign for a ban on the insecticide DDT and implementation of cost-effective and environmentally friendly alternatives in the fight against malaria.
CLEVER - The sustainable supermarket
The range of products on offer in any given supermarket is vast. Agricultural products are often available year round, regardless of the season. Products are imported from all over the world. In addition to this is the flood of labels, of which it is hardly possible to have an overview, advertising sustainable, environmentally responsible and socially just products. In the sustainable supermarket CLEVER, visitors learn hands-on how they can behave responsibly towards nature, environment and their fellow man during their daily shop.
Sustainable agriculture within a green economy
With the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD), a major international summit is coming up in 2012. Food and agriculture is of high relevance for its themes. In this context Biovision is organizing two international dialogues in Rome and Addis Ababa on 20th and 21st of October 2011.
Biovision Blog
Interview of the week with Dr. Jeremiah Akumu, Camel Expert in Kenya for Vétérinaires Sans Frontières Suisse (VSF), one of Biovision’s partner organisations.
„International experts place sustainable agriculture at the core of the Green Economy“
Blog about the Biovision / swissnex Boston event with Hans Rudolf Herren
Biovision Annual Report 2010
We are pleased to present our 2010 Annual Report with Biovision's current operating figures. Its pages also provide an exciting view into our trendsetting projects and a comprehensive insight into the activities of Biovision.
Help for farmers via mobile phone and internet
Workshop on Mobile and Web Technologies in Social and Economic Development: 4th and 5th June 2011, Dar es Salaam (Tansania), with participation of Biovision.
Biovision in the media
Interview with our CEO Andreas Schriber in the "Schweizer Illustrierte Grün", only available in german
Biovision at Afro-Pfingsten 2011
Only available in german: Kulinarische Reise nach Ostafrika: Donnerstag, 9. Juni, 18 – 23 Uhr; Spenglerei Winterthur, Gärtnerstrasse 18
Biovision Member Event 2011
Only available in german: Biovision Mitgliederanlass vom Donnerstag, 19. Mai 2011, 19.30 Uhr in der Kulturhalle 12 in Bern
Poster Award (17/02/2011)
Poster Award on Innovative Alternatives to DDT used for Malaria Vector Control organized by Biovision supported by the Global Alliance for Alternatives to DDT and sponsored by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation
Biovision Symposium 2010
Biovision Symposium: Saturday 20th November in Volkshaus Zürich, Switzerland, (Large Auditorium, Stauffacherstrasse 60) free entry
Unusual campaign to protect the biodiversity
You can help us and make your friends and acquaintances smile by sending them our videos and the address of our website where they will have the opportunity to learn more about Biovision’s work in an entertaining way. They can experience for themselves how help for self-help aids not only the people but also the threatened animals and plants of East Africa. Support Biovision – for change, something different: www.everyone-is-good-at-something.com.
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Ban Ki-moon visits the farmer Academy in Ethiopia
UN Secretary-General visits Biovision Project
World Food Day 09.10.09
Event for World Food Day with Hans Rudolf Herren, Friday, 9th of October 2009.
Securing World Nutrition: The Contribution of Organic Farming and Genetic Modification
H.R.Herren in Person: Securing World Nutrition: The Contribution of Organic Farming and Genetic Modification
