Country Information at other Websites

The two-weekly Biofach newsletter contains a wealth of information on organic farming world-wide.

The Information Letter of Ekoconnect informs regularly about developments in organic farming in Central Eastern European Countries. It is available at the Ekoconnect Homepage.

FAO provides at its homepage general country information for all countries as well country reports on the situation of organic farming many countries.

FAO is one of the publishers of the study 'World Markets for Organic Fruit and Vegetables', 2001. The study contains numerous country reports (2000).

• FAO.org/OrganicAg: Country data
• FAO.org: World Markets for Organic Fruit and Vegetables - Opportunities for Developing Countries in the Production and Export of Organic Horticultural Products

The organic food and products country profiles provide a quick overview of the situation of the organic sector in Asian and African countries. These profiles also include information about the country’s geographic location, its agricultural sector and about the key organic products available. Most reports are from 2006.  

Country reports

The Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) of the United States Department of Agriculture foreign provides reports about the situation of organic farming. These reports can either be searched for via the main Organic Products Page (for country reports go to "resources") or the document database at the FAS Homepage (go to "commodity" > "organic products" and select the country).

The Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Bari (IAMB), www.iamb.it ,  Italian offshoot of the International Centre for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies (CIHEAM), has a number of activities related to organic agriculture in the Mediterranean countries and provides country reports at its homepage.

Furthermore the Mediterranean Agricultural Institute IAMB has prepared a report about organic farming in the Mediterranean Countries: Il biologico nel Bacino del Mediterraneo, IAMB, ISMEA, March 2008 (in Italian).

At the Organic Europe Homepage, maintained by FiBL, reports on the situation of organic farming in European countries as well as an extensive address database are available. Link