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Resources and further readings

  • Find additional materials, such as posters, factsheets, or booklets for each manual/chapter that can be downloaded: DOWNLOADS
  • Bernet, T., G. Thiele, T. Zschocke. 2006. Participatory Market Chain Approach (PMCA): User Guide. CIP-Papa Andina, Lima. papandina.cip.cgiar.org/fileadmin/PMCA/User-Guide.pdf 
  • Horton, D. 2008. Facilitating Pro-poor Market Chain Innovation: An Assessment of the Participatory Market Chain Approach in Uganda. International Potato Center (CIP), Lima. 46 pp. www.papandina.org/fileadmin/documentpool/Institucional/Libro/PMCA-uganda.pdf.
  • Information on organic agriculture by FAO with detailed country reports including the legal situation, www.fao.org/organicag/  
  • Information about the US NOP, www.ams.usda.gov/nop/indexIE.htm  
  • The Codex Alimentarius Commission and the FAO/WHO Food Standards Programme: Organically Produced Foods. Rome, www.codexalimentarius.net/ download/standards/360/CXG_032e.pdf
  • PGS Guidelines: ‘How Participatory Guarantee Systems can develop and function’ available at www.ifoam.org/about_ifoam/standards/pgs/All-PGS-Publ.html.
  • List of certification bodies operating in African countries can be found on the IFOAM website at www.ifoam.org/about_ifoam/around_world/aosc_pages/Organic_CBs_operating_in_Africa.html. 
  • Complete training materials on group certification can be purchased from the IFOAM webshop at http://shop.ifoam.org/bookstore/index.php?cPath=64_68_46_47
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