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GOMA Scoping Study for Equivalence and Harminization of Organic Standards and Technical Regulations in the Asia Region

Year of publication 2010

Pages 48

Author Office of Assistant Director-General (Natural Resources Management and Environment Department)

Product type Book (stand-alone)

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) This study is commissioned by the Global Organic Market Access (GOMA) project, a collaboration among FAO, UNCTAD and IFOAM, to provide information that enables stakeholders and GOMA to develop an optimal strategy for facilitating organic trade (and thereby also organic sector development in Asia) through equivalence, harmonization and/or other forms of regional cooperation. The GOMA project builds on the same partnership that created and facilitated the International Task Force on Harm onization and Equivalence in Organic Agriculture (ITF) from 2003-2008.

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