Organic Africa Pavilion

No pavilion in 2012

Dear colleagues, exporters, friends and exhibitors in the Africa Pavilion,

Grolink and Agro Eco - Louis Bolk Institute have organised the Africa Pavilion for four years, from 2008 through 2011, but now it is time for a break. We will not be organising an Africa Pavilion during the Biofach 2012.

The decision to postpone the pavilion until 2013 is due to lack of funding. We have sold the stand space to exhibitors for less than the actual price through-out the years and we are dependent on funding from donor organisations to continue to do so. We promise to work very hard and hope to offer the service to you again in 2013!

Meanwhile during the BioFach 2012 exhibition, Agro Eco LBI and Grolink will have a stand in hall 4 and offer a number of services extracted from the Africa Pavilion; a meeting area with wireless internet, match making for African exporters, promotion of organic products from Africa and chocolate tasting - the success from 2011!

Do you want to do something extra? We will have shelves in the stand for you to display some products (not big volumes) and your brochures. For this service we will charge 500 euros per company. We advice you to be quick because the space is very limited.

With best regards,

Kari Orjavik and Bo van Elzakker

Grolink and Agro Eco LBI

Best Exhibitor Award

Best exhibitor of Africa Pavilion 2010 Award goes to Uganda Crop Indistries Ltd UCIL

This award is to highlight a company in the Africa Pavilion that has done an extraordinary work to expand and increase their sales.

This years award goes to a company that has interacted with a large number of visitors and established successful business contacts. They have also focussed on their package design and created a consumer package line. They have, during 2010, increased their sales 20 folds.

In the photo you see from left: Peter Lustig (Africa Pavilion), Charity Namuwoza (Nogamu) and Mansoor Nadir (Uganda Crop Indistries Ltd UCIL)

The Organic Africa Pavilion is organised in cooperation with


African Union	International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements	Swedish Society for Nature Conservation

Belgian Development Agency	International Trade Centre	Agro Eco - Louis Bolk Institute East Africa	Agro Eco - Louis Bolk Institute West Africa
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Ethiopian Association for Organic Agriculture	Ghana Organic Agriculture Network	Kenya Organic Agriculture Network	MADABIO

Nigerian Organic Agriculture Network, NOAN	National Organic Agriculture Movement of Uganda, Nogamu	Organic Producers and Processors Association of Zambia, OPPAZ	Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Resources - Rwanda

Organic Exchange	Senegalese Association for the Promotion of Organic Agriculture	Tanzania Organic Agriculture Movement	ZOPPA Trust