ASCI Tuscany
in collaboration with
The Fierucola
(Association of Solidarity with the Italian Campaign. Social Promotion Association)
Saturday January 30, 2010 15:30
at Mani Tese, Via La Pieve 43 / b - Scandicci
"coming together" A group of workers, peasants and technicians, Asci Fierucola Tuscany and in recent months have examined the issue of Certification Held for as has been carried out in many foreign countries as an alternative to official certification ASCI Fierucola Tuscany and present the following proposal to be discussed and operational approffondire.
walk together. The certification company or group for organic farmers: a further step in building an active solidarity between producers and consumers. The ASCI adopts the concept developed in recent years in the international movement of small farmers, such as Via Campesina, sovereignty 'FOOD. This concept considers union passed a corporate model that privileges the interests of a class, independently from those of society. The right for consumers to have access to healthy food and at a fair price and quality go hand in hand with the right of the party to be able to make production decisions addressed to the local markets and sufficiently profitable. In recent years as producers are organized in an ever more effective in different modes of direct sales, consumers are organized as effectively in GAS, open debate on conscious consumption choices as well as solidarity and sometimes can be organized into forms of self. Facilitate and create opportunities to meet and exchange between these entities is increasingly important.
also by small producers who sell their products directly to consumers or markets, he feels the need for a system of certification for organic production that seeks to eliminate the problems you have with third-party certification ( high costs, the certifying body which has as its counterpart, excessive bureaucracy). The only self sometimes used by small producers do not seem to be enough: the island too producer in his company and not always is clearly understood by the consumer.
In some countries outside Europe, and recently also in Europe, are active forms of group certification recognized and supported by IFOAM (PGS - participatory Guarantee System) which applied in our country reality may well meet the needs of small producers by removing part of the problems the current system of organic certification and encouraging collaboration with consumers. In a nutshell, the Group Certification should include: - directed and participated in the involvement of producer, consumer (or other gas) and also external technical - Certification program membership and knowledge of the rules laid
the program - a business visit made by other farmers in the area of \u200b\u200brelevance in collaboration with consumers interested in being part of gas or less, so they can better understand the various issues relating to agricultural production and establish direct relationships with producers.
Furthermore, the visit by other farmers can also play a work of technical, exchange of experiences, and sharing of knowledge. Again -The voluntariness of the work done at least at the level of verification company can make the certification costs much lower. - Consumer involvement in all phases of certification and a critical number of accessions by producers in a given region or bioregion, may allow the adoption of a mark that will facilitate the identification of a producer as a participant in a system of easily objectivity, and then get the trust of those who are not directly involved in the system certification.
these circumstances you decide to start a project so constituted. We propose an early stage of experimentation and knowledge to 'THE Fierucola Association and farms participating in the organized markets that it already currently have a self-certification. - A first step is the inspection carried out in a participatory way of all farms that currently fanno l’autodichiarazione per partecipare al mercato della fierucola. In altre parole un numero congruo di aziende della stessa zona del produttore in questione visiterà l’azienda riempiendo un formulario precostituito sulla base di una griglia preformata. Sarà presente in maniera attiva uno o più rappresentanti dei consumatori. Sarà possibile abbinare la visita, previo accordo, ad un momento di scambio lavorativo. In allegato alcune griglie per le visite aziendali: la prima in uso ad un PGS riconosciuto da IFOAM (Organic Food New Zealand), la seconda di Wholesome Food Association, un gruppo di piccoli coltivatori inglesi e per raffronto una griglia in uso in un gas (gas montagnana). - I formulari riempiti saranno poi raccolti da a coordinator who will reunite with the self-declaration made by each company (as already requested that the plan must contain production company) and subjected to a monitoring committee that may require further clarification in case of doubt, or rule on the acceptance and conversion period to be allocated to new entrants to the bio.
Based on the knowledge gained in the previous phase (lasting at least one year) and of the reports and findings that have since made it easier to understand the real possibilities, size, effort, cost for a certification system owned if necessary, and then start the next phase of consolidation. Main these issues invite the producers directly involved or not, associations and representatives of the bio-gas concerned to attend. For info
Marzio Carletti tel: 0575 529275; lerocche.marzio @ tin.it
Xavier Nannini tel: 055 8493007; s.nannini_mr @ free . it
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