At the general meeting, Ueli Borsari hands over the presidency to the previous managing director Regula Ochsner after nine years in office. In a review of the previous year, he explained to the more than 50 people present that 2017 had been a pleasing and financially very successful year and that the first mobile centre had turned out to be a "real hit".

Regula Ochsner in turn hands over the management of the office to Rita Bachmann. She knows the African continent well, has lived in various countries for 20 years and knows Madagascar from her work in the travel industry.

There is also a change of personnel at the highest level in Madagascar. Alain Wasserfallen and Dagobert Froebel are now taking over the country coordination as co-directors and dividing the responsibility into the areas of administration / sales and technology / IT respectively.

Speaking of technology: A supplier of aluminium parts, which ADES needs for the construction of the parabolic cooker, is withdrawing from the business due to constantly rising transport and customs clearance costs. ADES will therefore produce the cooker on its own in future. Those responsible are using this opportunity to further develop the cooker with the aim of producing it even more professionally and cooking it even more effectively.

Among various other projects in Switzerland and Madagascar, one seems to stand out: ADES collects bicycles in Switzerland, enabling 74 employees to get to work more quickly or more cheaply. After all, the ADES production site in Fianarantsoa is located eight kilometres outside the city centre, which means a long walk or an expensive bus ride for many employees.

Meanwhile, in Switzerland, a new layout for the annual report, a new brochure and a schematic representation of ADES' vision are being created. And while the mission statement is undergoing a gentle revision, ADES is now offering climate sponsorship.

• Annual Report 2018
• Vision 2050
• Abstracts consolfood Faro
• Mission statement
• Climate Sponsorship Certificate
• Madagascar Trip Herbert Blaser
• Presentation General Assembly
• ERKA flyer
• Bulletin 2018-1
• AFA afforestation
• ADES flyer
• Bike Report Madagascar
• Harvest Festival Grosshöchstetten
• Bulletin 2018-2
• Activity plan 2018
• Presentation Rotary Office Oberland
• Christmas letter

• 12.18: Agro Sans Frontière
  Potato news from Madagascar (read pdf)
• 10.12.18: Media release City of St.Gallen
  City of St.Gallen supports aid organisations (Link)
• 15.11.18: the u-blox technology magazine
  Supporting a smart fight against deforestation in Madagascar (read pdf)
• 25.07.18: We Mättmistetter
  Companies in the Grindel Areal (read pdf)
• 29.05.18: Affolter Anzeiger
  When the sun makes the fried egg sizzle (read pdf)
• 04.05.18: Affolter Anzeiger
  Swiss pioneer becomes new president (read pdf)
• 04.05.18: Affolter Anzeiger
  Successful year for the Aemtlerchorb (read pdf)
• 05.04.18: Midi Madagasikara
  Commune rurale d'Antoetra (Link)
• 01.03.18: Annual report 2017, agro-sans-frontière Suisse
  Madagascar, first project year 2017 - 2019 (Link)
• 23.01.18: The Freiämter
  Cooking food with solar energy instead of wood (read pdf)
• 12.01.18: The Freiämter
  Energy-saving cookers for Africa (read pdf)