{"id":3749,"date":"2025-05-14T10:11:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T15:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/?p=3749"},"modified":"2026-06-01T13:37:57","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T18:37:57","slug":"leveraging-intraregional-trade-eastern-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/events\/leveraging-intraregional-trade-eastern-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Leveraging Intraregional Trade of Organic Products from the Eastern Africa Region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3843\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/uganda-workshop-ssi-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/uganda-workshop-ssi-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/uganda-workshop-ssi-300x200.jpg 300w, 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sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/events\/leveraging-intraregional-trade-eastern-africa\/attachment\/uganda-organic-workshop-3\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"461\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/uganda-organic-workshop-3-1024x461.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/uganda-organic-workshop-3-1024x461.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/uganda-organic-workshop-3-300x135.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/uganda-organic-workshop-3-768x346.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/uganda-organic-workshop-3-1536x691.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/uganda-organic-workshop-3.jpg 2040w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/events\/leveraging-intraregional-trade-eastern-africa\/attachment\/uganda-organic-workshop-4\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"461\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/uganda-organic-workshop-4-1024x461.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/uganda-organic-workshop-4-1024x461.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/uganda-organic-workshop-4-300x135.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/uganda-organic-workshop-4-768x346.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/uganda-organic-workshop-4-1536x691.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/uganda-organic-workshop-4.jpg 2040w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/events\/leveraging-intraregional-trade-eastern-africa\/attachment\/uganda-organic-workshop-1\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"461\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/uganda-organic-workshop-1-1024x461.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/uganda-organic-workshop-1-1024x461.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/uganda-organic-workshop-1-300x135.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/uganda-organic-workshop-1-768x346.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/uganda-organic-workshop-1-1536x691.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/uganda-organic-workshop-1.jpg 2040w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\r\n<p>The International Institute for Sustainable Development in collaboration with the East African Community (EAC), the African Organic Agriculture Network, and the National Organic Agricultural Movement of Uganda, convened a multistakeholder workshop to explore strategies for enhancing the formal trade of organic products in the EAC.<\/p>\r\n<p>The workshop served as a platform for policymakers, national bureaus of standards, organic producers, certification bodies, and value chain actors to engage in dialogue and co-create solutions for strengthening the formal trade of organic products in the continent.<\/p>\r\n<p>Following the event, 49 delegates from across 16 African nations came together to sign a joint declaration on boosting organic trade in the region. Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Declaration-Four-Points-by-Sheraton-Kampala-June-13_copyedited.pdf\">full declaration<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Institute for Sustainable Development in collaboration with the East African Community (EAC), the African Organic Agriculture Network, and the National Organic Agricultural Movement of Uganda, convened a multistakeholder workshop to explore strategies for enhancing the formal trade of organic products in the EAC. The workshop served as a platform for policymakers, national bureaus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":3750,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3749"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4056,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3749\/revisions\/4056"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}