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Albania’s organic sector is still nascent, but is developing most dynamically. The Research Institute of Organic Agriculture, working with local partners, has compiled the facts and figures in a study presenting the sector’s drivers and determinants. The study, available now, will be a valuable... read more

All slide presentations on organic agriculture worldwide 2010 are now ready.  read more

The OrganicDataNetwork project, which was recently launched, has now started a survey about data collectors and data availability of oganic market data in Europe. read more

Organic Trade Association’s 2012 Organic Industry Survey shows continued growth read more

In 2010 a study on Research in the Mediterranean countries was published by the Mediterraean Agronomic Institute in Bari (IAMB) in collaboration with the Mediterranean Organic Agriculture Network (MOAN).  read more

Press release of the European project OrganicDataNetwork read more

For the fourth time, the brochure "Organic Farming in Estonia" has been published. It informs about the latest facts and figures about organic farming in the country. According to this publication, 14 percent of the agricultural land is now organic (data per end of 2011). read more

Northeast Organic Farmers Association of New York (NOFA-NY) and the US Department of Agriculture’s Organic Agriculture Research and Education Initiative (OREI) conducted a two-day research symposium on January 19 and 20 in Saratoga Springs, New York.  read more

According to provisional data for 2011, compiled by the German Federation of the Organic Food Industry BÖLW (www.boelw.de), the organic area grew by only 2.3 percent, increasing from of 990’702 hectares in 2010 to 1.01 million hectares in 2011. For farms, the growth rate was 4.8 percent; 23’000... read more

The dyanamic data table with the basic data on organic agriculture worldwide: Organic agricultural land, share of total agricultural land, and producers has been updated to include the 2010 data. Link Organic-World.net: Dynamic data table read more

Germany is not only the largest market for organic products in Europe but also one of its largest organic producers. In spite of this fact, in 2009/2010 Germany imported, depending on the product, 2 to 95 percent of such organic products which could also have been produced in the country.  read more

The European Union and the United States announced on February 15, 2012, that beginning June 1, 2012, organic products certified in Europe or in the United States may be sold as organic in either region. This partnership between the two largest organic-producers in the world will establish a strong... read more

At the occasion of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, stakeholders along the organic food production chain established the Round Table on Organic Agriculture and Climate Change. The objective is to coordinate research and development on organic agriculture and climate... read more