Towards Organic Asia (TOA) is a partner-driven network, managed by the coordinating team based on the School for Wellbeing, studies and research Secretariat Office in Bangkok, Thailand. TOA began as an initiative of Vandana Shiva, a leading environmental activist, to strengthen and move forward the existing movement of agroecology in Asia. Inspired by the Bhutanese’s “100 percent Organic Country”
policy and global movement of Gross National Happiness, the TOA Programme started in 2011, in collaboration with CCFD – Terre Solidaire, Thailand Green Market Network and Suan Nguen Mee Ma social enterprise. TOA envisions organic agriculture/agroecology as the means to strengthen the spirit of community, economic sufficiency, and care for the Earth. A holistic and integrated approach to organic agriculture/agroecology as not only a food production system, but that encompasses the interdependencies between agriculture and local cultures, self-sufficiency, sustainable livelihoods, climate resilience, food and seed sovereignty.