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Posted by Natalie Prokopchuk and Tobias Eisenring, European section of the Organic World.
Several international donors support the organic sector in Ukraine, including the
Swiss State Secretariat of Economic Affairs SECO and the Swiss Agency for
Development and
Cooperation (SDC). To promote knowledge transfer and
awareness, donors mentioned above organise trainings, seminars, conferences,
round
tables and more. The organic sector in Ukraine is
furthermore
supported by various international donors from Canada
(CIDA), Germany
(GTZ) and Netherlands (Ministry of Agriculture and
Environment). Multinational
donors such as the United Nations
Environment Programme (UNEP) and the International
Finance Cooperation
(IFC) announce their interest to support organic production in the
country.
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Posted by Natalie Prokopchuk and Tobias Eisenring, European section of the Organic World.
The Ukrainian organic
movement is represented by numerous stakeholders: the
only Ukrainian
certification body Organic Standard, the association of
organic
production stakeholders BIOLan Ukraine, the Organic Federation of
Ukraine, the association of producers of organic products Pure Flora,
the textile supplier
Organic Era Trade House, the information center
Green Dossier as well as other organisations.
Organic producers,
processors, traders and shops play an important role in pushing
forward
organic market growth in Ukraine. The majority of organic stakeholders
actively
participate in the working group on the organic law draft of
the Ministry of Agricultural Policy of Ukraine.
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The first organic honey in Ukraine is produced by the Druzhba private
agricultural company, the member of the EthnoProduct group.
The
bee-garden of the Druzhba company was certified as organic according to
the
European standards by the Swiss institute for Ecological Marketing,
IMO, in May 2010.
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The first
organic cow milk produced in Ukraine
and certified according to European
standards has arrived onto the shelves of
Kyiv’s shops in November 2010.
This organic milk
is produced by the EthnoProduct Corporation (member
of
the EthnoProduct Organic Agriculture Group)
based in Yasenivka, Chernihiv region.
Organic milk is nominated by the Green Awards Ukraine as the Best Green Product 2011.
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EthnoProduct
is the first and the largest Ukrainian supplier of organic
meat and organic dairy products. Combining some agricultural
companies, EthnoProduct adheres to
the organic standards and principles,
promoting organic lifestyle.
With 8,000 ha of land and 2,000 cows, the
Ethnoproduct is organically
certificated in 2010 by Swiss IMO and is expanding further. 
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Green Awards Ukraine is the contest where the jury is
presented by the leading
experts in the field of environmental practices of the European level, public
opinion leaders and representatives of
influential international organizations
and institutions. The judges evaluate
the projects in two phases selecting the
best one by interactive voting and
according to the results of public defense of the
projects.
The purpose of Green Awards Ukraine is to identify the best business and social
"green" projects in Ukraine.
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Posted by KyivWeekly, 26 December 2011The long-awaited annual ecological event, Green Awards Ukraine, honoring the best
green business and social projects in Ukraine took
place in Kyiv Golf Center on
December 15. Projects, which successfully
passed the first stage of the competition,
Green Trends, were
presented to the public during the first half of the day. 44
projects
were selected to compete for the title of the best project on the final
stage of
the contest, their authors received an opportunity to present
their achievements
in person. Over 200 guests, among whom there were
contestants, panel of judges and
guests attracted by unparalleled nature
of the event, gathered later that night after
the votes were counted.
The ceremony was an impressive celebration for the environmentally
aware
people. The Green Awards Ukraine 2011 nominees included some of the TOP
100
companies, small and medium busineses that are
working on promising green projects in Ukraine.
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