{"id":13171,"date":"2021-04-27T15:42:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T13:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biovision.ch\/story\/ein-grund-zum-feiern\/"},"modified":"2022-07-20T19:31:44","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T17:31:44","slug":"a-good-reason-to-celebrate","status":"publish","type":"story","link":"https:\/\/www.biovision.ch\/en\/story\/a-good-reason-to-celebrate\/","title":{"rendered":"A good reason to celebrate"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The One World Award (OWA)<\/a> is awarded by Rapunzel Naturkost, one of Europe\u2019s leading organic producers, together with the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements<\/a>. The award commends people and projects that make the world a better and fairer place. It recognizes and honours initiatives that give people courage and show paths toward a positive future.<\/p>

One of these pioneering initiatives is Sustainable Agriculture Tanzania (SAT),<\/a> our long-time partner organization from Morogoro. SAT received the One World Award 2021 for its impressive achievements, which it will celebrate through its Farmer Training Centre and the certification of numerous farmer groups in their own country and beyond. \u201cTheir passion and policy work for organic farming has shaped the government\u2019s and the Tanzanian people\u2019s image of organic farming,\u201d explained Shamiso Mungwashu from Zimbabwe, 2017 OWA winner and this year\u2019s jury member, in her accolades at Monday night\u2019s award ceremony. SAT shows that nature can give us everything we need \u2013 if we practice smart agriculture. \u201cMay many follow your example!\u201d<\/p>

Founding couple and SAT directors Janet Maro\u2019s and Alex Wostry\u2019s reactions to the prize show that this is already happening. \u201cThousands of farmers are celebrating with us today,\u201d said a beaming Alex Wostry in the thank-you video for the award. \u201cThe OWA is an honour to us and the Tanzanian organic movement,\u201d added Janet Maro. \u201cNothing better could have happened to SAT than receiving this prestigious award for our tenth anniversary.\u201d Bernward Geier, who as jury coordinator led the evening\u2019s event, also showed how impressed he was by the strong couple\u2019s commitment: \u201cJanet and Alex are really making a difference. What they have achieved in a decade is something I have never seen before in sub-Saharan Africa.”<\/p>

Biovision as sponsor<\/h2>

The cooperation between SAT and Biovision began in 2008 with a shy request from Alex Wostry, a native of Vorarlberg, who was then a volunteer with a small NGO in Tanzania. The critically minded Austrian saw confirmation of many of his doubts about large development projects. But he also witnessed that agricultural projects really help people. He wanted to put this insight into practice in Morogoro, the capital of the district with the same name, with a small demonstration garden for ecological farming methods. Wostry asked Biovision for a laptop to support his project. In Zurich, Wostry\u2019s extraordinary commitment and his idea\u2019s potential were immediately recognized. Biovision paid for the laptop and sent him a start-up project contribution.<\/p>

Together with some Sokoine University students in Morogoro (including Maro, who is now his wife), the Austrian set out to realize his plan. The young idealists could count on financial support from Biovision \u2013 and still can today.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What started small 10 years ago has become a very big deal: Sustainable Agriculture Tanzania (SAT), Biovision\u2019s longstanding partner organization, was granted the prestigious One World Award. We are delighted for the international recognition of our friends in Morogoro \u2013 and also proud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13153,"template":"","exclude-from-search":[],"newsletter":[],"region":[228],"projektthema":[354],"themen":[248],"class_list":["post-13171","story","type-story","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","region-sub-saharan-africa","projektthema-sat-en","themen-agriculture-en"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-19 02:54:45","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"newsletter","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biovision.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/story\/13171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biovision.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/story"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biovision.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/story"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biovision.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/story\/13171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biovision.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biovision.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"exclude-from-search","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biovision.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exclude-from-search?post=13171"},{"taxonomy":"newsletter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biovision.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newsletter?post=13171"},{"taxonomy":"region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biovision.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/region?post=13171"},{"taxonomy":"projektthema","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biovision.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/projektthema?post=13171"},{"taxonomy":"themen","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biovision.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/themen?post=13171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}