Contact first name: Carolyn
Contact last name: Suggate
Contact email: admin@organicinvestmentcooperative.com.au
Street: Level 5, The Causeway Building, 306 Little Collins St
Postal code: 3000
City: Melbourne
State: Victoria
Country: Australia
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| Deliverable | Notes |
|---|---|
| 1 - Set of principles and attributes | ORICoop uses the Regeneration Organic Certification & local organic certification standards (AUS) as the basis for each farms further & ongoing farm development. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s) guide our investor base, and the ROC guide the farm’s production systems amongst our Co-operative of organic farmers. |
| 2 - Drivers and indicators of sustainable production and consumption | Addressing food waste, farm production (efficiency), localised food demand & systems as a priority, then domestic and export food production. Including the measure of nutrient dense food, healthier soils and cleaner waterways from organic farmland. |
| 3 - Actual data on sustainable production and consumption | Collation of data of organic farm production pre-farm gate, that includes on farm monitoring, benchmarking of farm production and profitability. |
| 4 - Policy reform proposals/arguments | Liasion with peak organic bodies regarding food & farm production, and collating of sustainable farm production data |
| 5 - Training and education tools | Working with partners across Australia & internationally, that work with students, educators and farmers of more regenerative and agroecology based farm production systems that are healthier for the land & water ecosystems. To create a model of collective organic best practice farms that enable better education and practical teaching mechanisms of organic best practice that is applicable to each farming system. |
| 6 - Case studies of food systems | With a growing number of certified organic farms & amount of farmland across Australia, in different bio-regions and climatic zones, ORICoop can offer pilot studies and research sites on farms for better holistic production systems, better varieties (ie drought resistant grains), and better long term outcomes for organic producers in a changing climatic environment. |
| 7 - Workshops/roundtables | Workshops amongst organic farmers across Australia that demonstrate on-farm best practice learnings in organic & regenerative farming. Also working with organic peak bodies, certifiers, education providers and NFP stakeholders across organic food and farming industry to build strong production and food based businesses |
| 8 - Clusters/knowledge sharing | To utilize a technology platform that captures data, availability & quality of organic food production alongside the demand component. And over time to add other tools that builds capacity of this data, that is owned by the farmers and the members (of technology platform). |