EoL in July 2025
EBDA Carbon Credit Event Coverage
the communication team covered the Carbon Credit Event organized by the Egyptian Biodynamic Association (EBDA) across five governorates. The focus was on raising awareness among farmers about the benefits of carbon credits under the Economy of Love (EoL) Standard. While the event targeted Minya, Qena, Aswan, Luxor, and Dominate.
The event was attended by representatives from three governors and one ministry, which emphasized the importance of integrating sustainable practices at a governmental level.
These materials are now being used across EBDA’s digital platforms and in partner reporting to document the event’s outreach and impact.
Organic Egypt Workshop
Workshop on Co-developing Indicators for the Transition Towards Agroecology”organized by Organic Egypt. This technical workshop brought together experts and practitioners to collaboratively define a framework for measuring agroecological progress in Egypt.
the communication team finalized a set of media materials for education and promotion
7 reels were also produced specifically for social media, aiming to highlight the fieldwork, success stories, and behind-the-scenes content from our projects.
Social Media Progress
EoL Achievements
Regionalwert: Sustainability & Biodiversity Assessment
- After the old indicators of the tool were updated and adjusted, all the questions in the tool were translated from English into Arabic to ensure better understanding and accessibility for farmers. In order to make it easier for farmers to respond, we created the tool in Google Form format. Ten farms were selected from three different governorates (Damietta, Assiut, and Fayoum ) as pilot farms.
- The team is currently in the pilot phase of the tool’s reveal process, following the completion of the form responses. This step will allow us to view the results of the Sustainability Report generated by the tool.
PGS
- On July 2nd, a session about the PGS was conducted by Eng. Buthaina in the EBDA team meeting explained the system mechanism step by step starting from the farm’s registration to the certification.
- The team has been working on organizing farm data. They collected and prepared data for all farms that were previously in paperwork format and compiled it into an Excel sheet. This was done to make the data accessible to both the Carbon Footprint Center (CFC) and the Center of Organic Agriculture in Egypt (COAE). Therefore, that certification process could begin.
- Currently, audits are ongoing for the farms registered under the system in 2023 and 2024 farms as second and third audits. Those audits are taking place during June, July, and August, 2025.
EoL & Alfanar Projects
Alfanar is a project between EoL and two partners (Alfanar and life vision) , The goal of the project is to train 700 farmers on the economy of love and help them convert to organic agriculture. A total of 79 farmers were successfully trained in Beni Suef governorate on the 19th and 20th of July.
Project Target
Region
Farmers’ Training target/month
Minia 90
Beni-suef 55
Region
Tree Planting Targets (Over Two Years)
Minia 2,000
Beni-suef 2,000
Region
Compost Targets (Over Two Years)
Minia 4,000 tons
Beni-suef 3,000 tons
EoL and Dopay Teams Contributions
The DoPay team took part in the Climate Heroes event, where nine new Meeza cards were distributed to farmers, enabling them to access their Economy of Love carbon credit entitlements as part of the incentive program.
DoPay Strategic Update
The DoPay team took part in the Climate Heroes event, where nine new Meeza cards were distributed to farmers, enabling them to access their Economy of Love carbon credit entitlements as part of the incentive program.
DoPay Strategic Update
To date, the EoL and DoPay teams have jointly issued a total of 2,091 cards. Ongoing efforts are focused on resolving issuance challenges and initiating data uploads to improve and streamline data flow. In parallel, a DoPay-only co-branding initiative is underway, with a targeted launch planned for early October 2025.
Farm Registration in the EoL HQ
- EoL had registered new farms with the association, Green Zone Farm, with an area of 235 fd in West Minya for olive production.
- Monitoring the activity of Al-Amal Farm in West Minya by the EoL responsible agronomist in the area, the total farm area is 750 fd.
- Registering the 9 fd farm of Dayet Younis in Nuweiba, Sinai Governorate which is a significant achievement to reach out to this area for raising awareness among beduin farmers in Nuweiba.
Organic Certification Survey – FairTrade
The survey was about the position of the farms affiliated with the FairTrade Organization and whether these farms can convert to the organic farming system and the benefits and advantages that can be obtained in terms of quality and higher prices than conventional ones, as well as obtaining international certificates. The EBDA team mentioned that all the farms affiliated with the association follow this system.
Youth Farmers Data Collection Survey – FairTrade
The survey concerns the possibility of young farmer members of the Fair Trade Movement owning new lands, whereby a member can own his own farm during his youth period, from the age of 25 to 35 years.
