{"id":11947,"date":"2011-03-26T02:13:25","date_gmt":"2011-03-26T00:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.world-citizenship.org\/?p=11947"},"modified":"2025-02-26T12:56:24","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T11:56:24","slug":"bio-suisse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/?p=11947","title":{"rendered":"Bio Suisse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>also in de, fr, it, es<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bio Suisse, a private-sector organization, is the federation of Swiss organic farmers<\/li>\n<li>This umbrella organization counts 32 organic farmers&rsquo; associations among its members, as well as the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture FiBL.<\/li>\n<li>Common and uniform standards for agriculture and processing.<\/li>\n<li>Common label, the \u00ab\u00a0Bud\u201d (German: Knospe); organic produce carrying the Bud label has a market share in Switzerland of about 60%<\/li>\n<li>More than 800 processing and trade companies have a licence contract with Bio Suisse to use the label<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Bio Suisse Association Structure &#8230; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bio-suisse.ch\/en\/whoisbiosuisse.php\">Who<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bio-suisse.ch\/en\/home.php\">Homepage<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bio-suisse.ch\/en\/sitemap.php\">Sitemap<\/a>;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bio-suisse.ch\/en\/importintoswitzerland.php\">Import<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bio-suisse.ch\/en\/importexport\/swissorganicproducts\/index.php\">Export<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bio-suisse.ch\/en\/product\/milk\/index.php\">Consumers<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bio-suisse.ch\/en\/product\/milk\/index.php\">Products<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bio-suisse.ch\/en\/consumer\/faq.php\">FAQs<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bio-suisse.ch\/en\/documentationimport.php\">Downloads<\/a>;<br \/>\nAddress: Bio Suisse, Margarethenstrasse 87, CH-4053 Basel, Switzerland;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bio-suisse.ch\/en\/corporate\/contact.php\">Contact<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bio-suisse.ch\/en\/aboutus.php \">About<\/a> &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bio-suisse.ch\/en\/thebudlabelstandsfor.php\">\/The BUD Label<\/a>:\u00a0\u00a0 <!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Natural diversity on the organic farm<\/li>\n<li> Ethologically sound livestock management and feeding<\/li>\n<li> No use of chemically synthesized pesticides or fertilizers<\/li>\n<li> No use of genetic engineering<\/li>\n<li> No use of unnecessary additives such as flavourings and colourings<\/li>\n<li> Non-aggressive processing of foodstuffs<\/li>\n<li> Inspection of organic production and processing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>REPRESENTATION OF INTERESTS<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>As the body which represents the interests of Swiss organic farmers and awards the label, Bio Suisse has a demanding dual role, which strongly shapes the Association&rsquo;s activities. Communication within the Association is therefore very important.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>LABEL PREMIUMAND MARKET ACCESS<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The principal benefit for organic farms is the label premium, i.e. the 15 &#8211; 50% higher prices that organic farmers earn for their produce. Secondly, they benefit from the measurable progress in improving market access for the Bud: a new Bud-labelled product appears almost daily, continuously expanding the position of Swiss organic products in the food market.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>GROWING BRAND RECOGNITION<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Thanks to extraordinary efforts (TV advertisements, trade fairs, posters, public relations work, improvement of product quality) the Bud label has pulled into second place, and now ranks directly behind Coop&rsquo;s own Naturaplan label for brand recognition.<\/li>\n<li>A representative survey by the market research institute IHA showed that by the end of December 2003, over 70% of Swiss citizens were familiar with the Bud label.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>also in de, fr, it, es Bio Suisse, a private-sector organization, is the federation of Swiss organic farmers This umbrella organization counts 32 organic farmers&rsquo; associations among its members, as well as the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture FiBL. Common and uniform standards for agriculture and processing. Common label, the \u00ab\u00a0Bud\u201d (German: Knospe); organic produce &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/?p=11947\" class=\"more-link\">Continuer la lecture<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> de &laquo;&nbsp;Bio Suisse&nbsp;&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-verifier","category-ngos-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17459,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11947\/revisions\/17459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}