General statistics

FAOSTAT provides time-series and cross sectional  data relating to food and agriculture for some 200 countries. 

The following statistics of relevance to the data collection on organic farming are available at the FAOSTAT homepage

• FAOSTAT Agricultural production domain
• Agricultural area (FAOSTAT > Resources > Resource Stat > Land)
• Crop data (FAOSTAT > Production > Prodstat > Crops)

Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union, provides general agricultrqal statistics as well as the data on organic agriculture collected by the European Union's member states. The data are based on the information of the organic inspection bodies. More