It is held on November 13 and 14 at the Botanical Garden of Cordoba.

The Biodiversity Foundation of the Ministry of the Environment, Rural and Marine Affairs, participates on Saturday, November 13, in the inauguration of the International Seminar on Experiences in Short Marketing Channels for Organic Farming, which will take place throughout the weekend at the Botanical Garden of Cordoba, with the attendance of workers from SMEs, the agricultural sector, cooperatives, the self-employed and liberal professionals resident in Extremadura, Castilla-La Mancha and Andalusia.

This activity is free of charge, as it is co-financed by the European Social Fund (ESF) through the Empleaverde Programme of the Biodiversity Foundation. Additionally, it has the support of the City Council of Cordoba, among other institutions.

Short marketing channels (CCCs) are those that allow a more direct relationship between producers and consumers (small shops, consumer groups, markets, restaurants, schools, among others), i.e. the channels of circulation of goods in which there is only a single intermediary between the final product and the consumer, and between the producer and the processor.

Attendees of the seminar will be able to exchange international experiences at CCC with producers, marketers and creators of consumer networks from our country and also from France, England and Italy.

In addition to the planned conferences, there will be work tables throughout the weekend, a play will be staged and guided tours of the germplasm bank and the Ethnobotanical Museum of the Botanical Garden of Córdoba will be offered.

The seminar is one of the actions planned within the Ecoagrocultures project, which is promoted by Ecologists in Action within the framework of the Empleaverde Program. It is an initiative that also includes training actions related to the cultivation and marketing of organic food, an advisory service for organic agricultural production and a campaign to promote the production and consumption of organic food.

The project, co-financed by the ESF and expected to run until February 2011, offers support to farmers, processors and consumers interested in organic farming, through training, advice and promotion of short marketing channels, with the aim of increasing organic agricultural activity in the aforementioned autonomous communities.