Denmark - Links

Country profiles

Organic agriculture

Danish Agricultural Advisory Service
Organic Farming in Denmark 2005 by Tomas Fibiger Norfelt
FAO Organic Aims
Denmark - Country Profiles for Organic Agriculture
Organic-World.net: Organic farming in Denmark 2003 (300 KB) (PDF of the article formerly available at the Organic-Europe.net website)

General agriculture

FAO Organic Aims:
Denmark: General Country Information

Statistics: Land use and production

: Denmark: Development of the land under organic management and share of total agricultural land. Source: Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, Copenhagen. Graph: FiBL, Frick.

Currently (2008) more than 160'000 hectares or six percent of the country's agricultural land are organic. Most of the land was fully converted, 20'000 hectares wereunder conversion, including 10'000 hectares in the first year of conversion. There were 2751 producers in 2008.

Statistics: Market

: Denmark: Development of the turnover of organic products in the general retail trade (excluding direct marketing and specialised retailers. Source. Statistics Denmark. Graph: FiBL, Frick

In 2008, the general retail sector, excluding direct marketing or the sales through specialised retailers, had grown to more than 600 million Euros. It is generally assumed that the retail sector covers 80 to 90 percent of all organic sales in the country.

Compared to the previous year the genreal retail sector had grown from 3.6 (2007) to 4.6 billion Danish Crowns in 2008 (1 Danish Crown = 0.13 Euros, May 2009), an increase of almost 30 percent.

In 2007, Denmark had a turnover with organic products of almost 600 million Euros, and it was the country with the highest per capita consumption in Europe (and probably in the world, see graphs at Organic-World.Net).

A very detailed statistics on the retail sales by products is available at the Statistics Denmark homepage.