The audience at the opening of Selling Organic: Building Partnerships
This year’s Selling Organic conference held some real ‘wow’ moments.
Contrary to the doom and gloom you might have expected, we heard of rocketing turnovers, growing exports and successful expansion.
There were a string of upbeat presentations from people at the sharp end of the organic food sector who talked unfailingly of growth. Of course, we can’t say that is representative of organics as whole, but it was certainly true of our speakers’ businesses and maybe that’s why they are people who have been at the forefront of organic brands for many years now.
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The IFOAM EU Group, the European arm of the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements, has sent a strong message to the European Commission on the co-existence of GM farming.
We believe this was something that needed saying clearly to the law-makers, and needs saying over and over again, if needs be. From our perspective it’s not a blinkered, anti-technology stance, but a hugely important matter that needs to be got right ASAP, before non-GM farming across the region is irreparably damaged by the spread of a technology that is proving not to work and which is not popular with the population in general.
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Charlie the Pertwood shire horse provided a talking point at Selling Organic 2010
Next week (October 13, to be precise) sees the third annual running of our Selling Organic series of conferences at which we bring together some of the sector’s greatest minds to share their expertise and examine the state of the market.
We’re really pleased with this year’s line-up of speakers, which has some fresh faces for the event and some new angles to explore.
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