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Overview
The book The World of Organic Agriculture 2006 presents a global overview of organic farming. It represents the eight edition of the global yearbook on organic farming.
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Full document
The full document is available in the Organic Eprints Archive at http://orgprints.org/5161/.
Main results
According to the survey conducted for the 2006 edition of the global statistical yearbook "The World of Organic Agriculture", currently more than 31 million hectares of farmland are under organic management worldwide. This constitutes a gain of around five million hectares in a single year. A major increase of organic land has taken place in China, where nearly three million hectares of pastoral land were recently certified.
In terms of organic land, excluding wild collection, Australia leads pack with 12.1 million hectares, followed by China (3.5 million hectares) and Argentina (2.8 million hectares).
Most of the world’s organic land is in Australia / Oceania (39%), followed by Europe (21 %), Latin America (20%), Asia (13%), North America (4 %) and Africa (3 %).
Regarding the share of organic farmland in comparison with the total agricultural area, Austria, Switzerland and Scandinavian countries lead the way. In Switzerland, for example, more than ten percent of the agricultural land is managed organically.
The continued increase in the organic land area over the last years is not just due to the ever greater interest in organic farming, but also a result of improved access to information and data collection each time the study is updated.
In 2004, the market value of organic products worldwide reached 27.8 billion US$, (23.5 billion EUR), the largest share of organic products being marketed in Europe and North America. Ongoing growth of the market and organic land area is expected for the foreseeable future, in part due to an increased support of governments and development organizations.
>> Chapter 5 of "The World of Organic Agriculture 2006". Organic Farming Worldwide 2006:Overview & Main Statistics
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Graphs and Maps
Some graphs and all maps published in the book can be downloaded from the internet site of the Foundation Ecology & Agriculture SOEL at http://www.soel.de/oekolandbau/weltweit_grafiken.html.
Pictures
Some of the pictures published in the 2006 edition of "The World of Organic Agriculture can be downloaded from the SOEL website at http://www.soel.de/oekolandbau/weltweit.html.
Presentation held at the Biofach Fair 2006
The presentations held at the Biofach Fair 2006 during the BioFach Congress, Feburary 17, 10 to 11 hs, BioFach Congress Centre.
Press releases and press uptake
Table of contents
1 Foreword
2 Editors' Note
3 Contacts and Data Sources
Bàrbara Baraibar
4 Data Collection and Processing
Bàrbara Baraibar
5 Organic Farming Worldwide 2006: Overview & Main Statistics
Minou Yussefi
6 Crop Statistics: General
Bàrbara Baraibar and Helga Willer
7 Crop Information & Statistics
7.1 Organic Cotton
Bàrbara Baraibar
7.2 Organic Coffee
Bàrbara Baraibar
7.3 Organic Cocoa Production
Salvador Garibay
7.4 Organic grapes … More Than Wine and Statistics
7.5 Selected Crop Statistics: Citrus, Olive and Rice Production
8 Overview of the Global Market for Organic Food & Drink
Amarjit Sahota
9 Standards and Regulations
Lukas Kilcher, Beate Huber and Otto Schmid
10 Certification and Accreditation
10.1 Accreditation
Gerald A. Herrmann
10.2 More than 400 Certification Bodies in 70 Countries
Gunnar Rundgren
10.3 The IFOAM Accreditation Program; Neil can you insert the List of IFOAM accredited certifiers
11 The Contribution of Organic Farming to Sustainable Development
Lukas Kilcher
12 Organic Farming in Africa
Nicholas Parrott, Charles Ssekyewa, Chido Makunike, Samuel Muwanga Ntambi
13 Organic Farming in Asia
Ong Kung Wai
14 Organic Farming in Australia/Oceania
14.1 Organic Farming in Australia
Els Wynen
14.2 Organic Farming in New Zealand
Seager Mason
15 Organic Farming in Europe
15.1 Europe: Statistics, Support Schemes and Research
Helga Willer
15.2 The European Market for Organic Food 2004/2005
Toralf Richter, Susanne Padel, Steve Lowman, Bernhard Jansen
16 Organic Farming in Latin America
Alberto Pipo Lernoud
17 Organic Farming in the Mediterranean Region
Lina Al-Bitar
18 Organic Farming in North America
Barbara Haumann
19 Achievements made and challenges ahead
Angela B. Caudle and Gabriele Holtmann
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World of Organic Agriculture - Statistics and Emerging Trends 2006.
International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM), Bonn,
Germany.
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