Afronet
As from May 2012, AfrONet was set up and endorsed as the umbrella organization uniting and representing African organic stakeholders throughout the African continent.
AfrONet through functional structures plays the following specific functions:
- Support expansion of EOA and Organic Movements to new countries.
- Facilitate communication about the initiative and strengthen the network through policy lobbying (advocacy) to engage more with the state actors.
- Unite the EOA actors (EOA CLOs, generally non-state actors like NOAMs, Farmer Organizations, private sector etc. and global actors like IFOAM, INOFO).
- Mobilize resources for its endeavours in promoting EOA on the continent.
- Network actors and stakeholders across regions and countries.
- Support capacity building for NOAMs in the EOA Initiative across the continent.
- Support strengthening of Network of Organic Agriculture Research in Africa (NOARA) by seeking network membership with relevant research organizations including the Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in East Central and Southern Africa (ASARECA), the West and Central African Council for Agricultural Research and Development (WECARD), and FARA (Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa).