A unique Summer Edition of BIOFACH, the World’s Leading Fair for Organic Food, and VIVANESS, the International Trade Fair for Natural and Organic Personal Care, will be held at the Nuremberg Exhibition Centre from 26 to 29 July, 2022. Exhibitors and trade visitors as well as government and media representatives will finally be back to meeting in person and on site. On opening day, the visitors will be able to attend a top-notch keynote address that deals with ecology, climate change, and resilience in accordance with the theme of this year’s BIOFACH Congress: “Organic.Climate.Resilience”.
In seven different forums (Specialized Trade, Policy, Science, Agriculture, Sustainability, BIOFACH and VIVANESS), some 130 presentations offer inspiration for embarking on the road to a climate-neutral world. “The organic system is already providing future-driven solutions for a sustainable transformation of our eating culture that it’s our job to promote in the coming years. This year’s Congress will motivate, inspire, visualize the future and concretely address policy demands. We have to lay the groundwork for redesigning agriculture now, a redesign that will lead to more food sovereignty and less input based on fossil fuels, to more resilience, a circular economy and strong regional value chains, to species-appropriate animal husbandry suited to the available land and plant production that doesn’t harm or pollute the soil or water. We already have the tools for the agriculture of the future and now we have to decide to use them,” says Tina Andres, Managing Director of BÖLW (German Federation of Organic Food Producers).
The programme of the Specialized Trade forum provides a quick overview of the challenges facing trade today. Danila Brunner, Director Exhibitions BIOFACH and VIVANESS, summarizes the trade-specific contributions as follows: “Organic has made it to the centre of society, which is another reason why organic trade’s unique selling point is changing drastically. Now it’s all about perfecting our positioning and assortments, implementing communication strategies, training employees and taking important steps toward digitalization. The forum programme offers practical proposals for accomplishing these important tasks.”