HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation
About this original series
HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation is one of the most experienced and largest development organisations in Switzerland. It came into existence on 1 July 2011 with the merger of two organisations: Helvetas (founded 1955) and Intercooperation (founded 1982).
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# Episodes
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Rating
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Episodes of HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation
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Value and future prospects for organic cotton pr...
Barcelona, 18 September 2011. Tobias Bandel from Soil & More, Netherlands, was one of the expert in the third panel of the Cotton Dialogues 2011. The panel discussed the issue of "Supporting sustainable growth". In this video, Tobias reflects on the outcome of the roundtable discussion. According to Tobias, organic is not a religion or just wishful thinking but it's actually the only logic way to produce food and cotton. Organic as of today is not yet fully sustainable but in a few years organ...
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Release date
Sep 21, 2011
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Runtime
02:02
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Ensuring future supplies of organic cotton seeds
Barcelona, 18 September 2011. Jane Dever from Texas AgriLife Research, USA, was one of the expert in the first panel of the Cotton Dialogues 2011. The panel discussed the issue of "Shaping the future of non-GM seed supply". The issue of supply for non-GM cotton seeds affects not only organic cotton growers, but also cotton growers with smaller margins that prefer to use traditional cotton varieties. Jane points out the importance of maintaining genetic diversity in the genetic resources availa...
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Release date
Sep 21, 2011
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Runtime
02:07
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Supporting sustainable growth through collaborat...
Barcelona, 18 September 2011. Jane Nalung from NOGAMU, Uganda was one of the expert in the third panel of the Cotton Dialogues 2011. The panel discussed the issue of "Supporting sustainable growth". According to Jane, her main learning point from the session is that supporting sustainable growth can be best achieved through collaboration and coordination amongst all actors involved in the organic cotton value chain.
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Release date
Sep 21, 2011
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Runtime
00:47
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De-commoditization of organic and fair trade cot...
Barcelona, 18 September 2011. Thomas Favennec, Tudo Bom?, Brazil, participated as expert in the second panel at the Cotton Dialogues 2011. In this video, Thomas shares his takeaways from the session. According to Thomas, there is a need to work on de-commoditization of organic and fair trade cotton, by making more direct links between farmer organisations and brands. http://www.organiccotton.org/
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Release date
Sep 18, 2011
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Runtime
02:06
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Building long term relationships between brands ...
Barcelona, 18 September 2011. Damien Sanfilippo, Fairtrade International, Germany, participated as expert in the second panel at the Cotton Dialogues 2011. In this video, Damien underlines two of the issues discussed in the session: the need of a sustainable and transparent price for cotton; the need of strong, long term relationships between brands and cotton producers. See more at http://www.organiccotton.org/
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Release date
Sep 18, 2011
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Runtime
01:04
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Developing guidelines for responsible business p...
Barcelona, 18 September 2011. Keith Tyrell from Pesticides Action Network (PAN), UK, moderated the second panel of the Cotton Dialogues 2011, focusing on responsible business practice and trade in the organic cotton sector. In this video, he shares his main takeaway messages from the session.
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Release date
Sep 18, 2011
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Runtime
04:00
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Shaping the future of non-GM seed supply
Barcelona, 18 September 2011. Prabha Nagarajan, Textile Exchange, India, moderated the first panel of the Cotton Dialogues 2011, focusing on the issue of "Shaping the future of non-GM seed supply". In her views, the session highlighted how the non availability of non-GM cotton seeds represents a real crisis situation. This crisis has many aspects as it affects biodiversity, seeds sovereignty and choice of farmers, and ultimately the consumers as well. Therefore according to Prabha there is a n...
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Release date
Sep 18, 2011
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Runtime
02:32
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How and why to train cotton farmers to breed the...
Barcelona, 18 September 2011. Dr Shreekant S Patil (University of Agriculture Sciences, Dharwad, Karnataka, IndiaBen Ramsden) is a cotton breeder and was one of the expert in the first panel of the Cotton Dialogues 2011. The panel discussed the issue of "Shaping the future of non-GM seed supply". According to Dr. Pail, the biggest challenge today across the world, and in India specifically, it is that organic cotton growers can't find enough, high quality non-GM cotton seeds for their producti...
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Release date
Sep 18, 2011
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Runtime
03:38
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Building a new programme for production and dist...
Barcelona, 18 September 2011. Ben Ramsden, from Pants to Poverty, UK. was one of the expert in the first panel of the Cotton Dialogues 2011. The panel discussed the issue of "Shaping the future of non-GM seed supply". According to Ben, the discussion was "fantastic" as it brought together farmers, seeds producers, academics, textile manufacturers and brands. Amongst the participants, a shared understanding of the problems that related to non-GM seeds emerged. More important, according to Ben, ...
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Release date
Sep 18, 2011
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Runtime
01:49
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Increasing support for non-GM seeds
Barcelona, 18 September 2011. Rajeev Baruah from bioRe, India was one of the expert in the first panel of the Cotton Dialogues 2011. The panel discussed the issue of "Shaping the future of non-GM seed supply". In his views, there is a strong, increasing support on the issue and it is now important to see how to bring this forward. According to Rajeev it is important to undertake global actions where non GM and hybrid seeds are made available to farmers at lower prices. Consumers need also to b...
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Release date
Sep 18, 2011
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Runtime
01:32
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