“The increasing demand for more nutritious and safe food is creating both market opportunities and challenges for organic farmers

“The increasing demand for more nutritious and safe food is creating both market opportunities and challenges for organic farmers. Obtaining access to this market requires certification, and many smallholder farmers lack the capacity to differentiate their organic products from the conventional products. This prevent smallholder farmers from profiting from these new markets. Participatory Guarantee Systems (PGS) are one option to get around this problem. PGS provide an alternative to certify organic production supplying local markets. This certification is based on trust, social interaction and peer-reviews.”-FAO.

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We recently conducted a peer review with I-Nogof Farmers who have their own farmers market every Saturday at Kidventurous, Garden Estate and this is a certification that what you will source from that market is purely organic.