GARDEN ROUTE | KAROO NEWS - The well-known George specialist on organic farming and food sustainability, Prof Raymond Auerbach, will be off to China to address two conferences next month. 

The first will take place at Suzhou on 7 September and will be a comparison between organic and conventional dairy farming in Southern Africa. 

The Ulanbh desert, in the adjacent Mongolia, is home to 100 000 dairy cows that are managed in the largest organic dairy project in the world. 

This will be followed on 10 and 11 September by the Asian Organic Conference hosted by Xichong County, that will be attended by researchers from all over the world. The paper will be on organic developments throughout Africa.

Auerbach is chairperson of the Network of Organic Agricultural Research in Africa (Noara), and a few months ago he was elected president of the Technology Innovation Platform of Organics International (Tipi).

As president of Tipi, it is his job to get researchers of organic farming around the world to work together strategically. They will be planning collaboration, reviewing progress and assessing research priorities.

Article: Sister publication, George Herald

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