Presentation of ASPAB
Introduction
Created in 1987, Senegalese Association for the Promotion of Organic Agriculture (ASPAB) supports and coordinates the activities of farmers on agroecology. Through its action on assistance, capacity building and advice, ASPAB) works for a rigorous respect of the norms of production of organic agriculture.
Objectives
a) to promote ecological practices on agriculture and farming systems
b) To promote an ecological approach of the projects of development
c) To bring farmers to avoid the dangers of pesticides
d) To rehabilitate agriculture traditional techniques.
e) Capacity building on organic and biodynamic agriculture for small farmers, gardeners, agents of development, people and their communities
f) regeneration of the degraded soils by monoculture
g) working with national and international organizations for the promotion of organic agriculture as a scientific model of an alternative agriculture
h) realize with farmers’ organizations, programs of development with ecological projects
i) to permit exchanges of experiences between countries on organic agriculture
j) to contribute to the amelioration and the protection of the environment
k) to let know the indigenous flora in particular the one of Senegal
l) to contribute to the promotion of agro-forestry
m) to ameliorate the health of people by orientation of consuming organic alimentation
n) Support its farmers’ partners to commercialize their organic products
o) to support the Farmer’s Research on organic agriculture and agro-forestry
Activities:
a) Seminars of Formation
b) Conference, courses, workshops
c) Information - Documentation
d) Agrobiologic Research in farmer’s milieu
e) Support to farmers and gardeners
f) Commercialization of organic products
g) Consultations, studies and monitoring of projects
h) Support to agro-forestry
i) Support to regeneration of soils
Our Label: BIOSAIN
To recognize the products of organic agriculture 
BIOSAIN
Created in 1989, BIOSAIN is grouping farmers’ partners of SAPOA (ASPAB).
These farmers and gardeners agreed on:
To respect SAPOA BASIC STANDARDS
To respect rigorously the NORMES OF PRODUCTION OF ORGANIC AGRICULTRE
To respect the agrobiologic techniques and for that, to accept to be trained
To summit on the controls of their techniques and for the quality of their products
To accept to follow a PERIOD OF RECONVERSION at least for two years
The BIOSAIN Label will be delivered for only the productions controlled par the Agency of Certification put in place by SAPOA (ASPAB).
This label will guaranty the quality of products and will certify their organic origin.