« Welcome to Biovision! My work and my life are filled with the wish that all people can live in a healthy environment and have enough food to eat.»
Hans Rudolf Herren, Winner of the World Food Prize, Founder and President of the Biovision Foundation
Farmers receive practical guidance from "TOF – The Organic Farmer" on how they can increase their harvests using simple, environmentally friendly methods. The magazine is distributed every month free of charge to interested farmers’ groups in Kenya and selected neighbouring countries. Via Website www.organicfarmermagazine.org the Organic Farmer reaches its readers worldwide. The information is also disseminated via radio "Radio Kiswahili Service", KBC as well as through flyers and brochures. Farmers particularly often use the opportunity to pose questions to the newspaper and receive feedback via SMS and readers’ letters. More...
In 2003 the World Bank and several UN agencies initiated the World Agriculture Report (IAASTD) , based on the question of how agriculture in the year 2050 could provide for a growing world population in the most sustainable, equitable and healthy way. 58 countries approved the IAASTD in 2008, however the last two years have gone by with policies and research almost unaffected by the findings of the report – business continues as usual.To counter this development Biovision Foundation and the Millennium Institute are engaging in an initiative seeking to change
the course of global agriculture to ensure food security in the long term by achieving a shift towards sustainable agriculture. More...
