Internal Control Systems (ICS): A Useful Tool in the Certification of Organic Produce from

In the past twelve years, very many smallholder groups have converted their agricultural production to conform to the standards for organic agriculture, especially in Latin America. Organic cultivation of the ever decreasing area of agricultural land affords the farmers more reliable and sometimes even greater harvests. This has led to a consider-able improvement in the living conditions of the smallholders who up until then were at an economic disadvantage