Certified production under voluntary sustainability standards now covers almost 10% of the global harvested area for key crops, confirming a decade-long growth trend. The 2025 edition of The State of Sustainable Markets, published by FiBL, ITC, and IISD with support from SECO, highlights strong expansion in cotton, cocoa, soybeans, oil palm, and sugarcane, while underlining the continued global importance of organic agriculture as the largest sustainability standard worldwide.

International conference bringing together research, policy, and practice to advance sustainable and organic livestock systems, with a focus on animal welfare, agroecology, and global food system transformation.

Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL)

Qualifications: Proven leadership and management experience with strong strategic, marketing, and business development skills; experience in stakeholder engagement and partnership building; strong interest in sustainable and organic agriculture, ideally biocontrol; experience with event management and commercialization of research-based knowledge products; excellent command of English, additional languages (German and/or French) an asset.

Community seed banks in Kenya are strengthening climate resilience and food security by safeguarding and exchanging local, climate-adapted seed varieties. Through the EmergenSeed project, farmer-managed seed systems in Turkana and Baringo help communities recover from climate shocks, reinforce seed sovereignty, and reduce dependence on external seed supply chains.

The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) has announced the International Cooperation Forum 2026, to be held on 26–27 February 2026 at the Geneva International Conference Centre. Organised by the SDC of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA), the forum will address the future of humanitarian aid amid growing global crises and shrinking funding. High-level participants include Federal Councillors Ignazio Cassis and Martin Pfister, as well as UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Tom Fletcher. Discussions will focus on humanitarian principles, international humanitarian law and Switzerland’s role in International Geneva.