In 2024, the statistical yearbook on global organic farming, "The World of Organic Agriculture,"…
The global organic market develops dynamically and in different ways around the world.
We take a…
On February 13, 2024, from 5 to 6 PM, the "The European market for organic food" session will take…
On February 13, 2024, 3:45-4.45 PM, the 25th edition of the yearbook "The World of Organic…
Increasing by almost 4 percent, the European organic market reached another high in 2021: 54.5…
The 24th edition of "The World of Organic Agriculture" will be launched on Febraury 14, 2023, 5 to 6…
At this session, the latest data on organic agriculture worldwide (area, producers, retail sales),…
At this session, the latest data on the European organic market for selected countries will be…
At this session, the latest data on the European organic market for selected countries (France,…
The global organic market develops dynamically and different in different parts of the world. We…
At this session, we will present organic market trends and data on organic agriculture worldwide…
At this session, we will present the latest data on the European organic market for selected…
The European organic market reached a record high in 2020. It increased by 15 percent and reached…
The latest data on organic farming worldwide will be presented by the Research Institute of Organic…
On the 15th of February, 12 pm CET, the latest statistical data on organic farming in Europe and …
The table of Contents of "The World of Organic Agriculture 2022" is now online. The PDF will be…
On the 15th, 12 pm CET, of February the yearbook with the latest statistical data on organic…
The presentation from the session on the World of Organic Agriculture and the European Market are…
(Frick, 17 February 2021) According to the latest FiBL survey on organic agriculture worldwide,…
Journlists wishing to get accreditation for the BIOFACH eSPECIAL should register on the BIOFACH…
The latest data and trends for four European markets (Germany, France, Italy and UK) as well as for…
We will explore the market information from the IFOAM – FiBL statistics book "The World of Organic…
On the 17th of February 2021, the latest data on organic agriculture and organic markets world-wide…
We are about to start our 22nd survey on organic agriculture worldwide. We hope that all data…
The infographics from "The World of Organic Agriculture 2020" are now also available in Ukrainian…
At Biofach 2020, several Statistics sesssions took place. The presentations are now online.
The organic market in Europe continues to grow. In 2018, it increased by almost 8 percent and…
On the 12th of February 2020, the latest data on the European organic market will be presented at…
On the 12th of February 2020, the latest data on organic agriculture and organic markets world-wide…
On February 13, 2020 the session "Global Organic Market Overview" will be held, reflecting about…
At this event, the initiative to harmonise organic consumer data collection at the international…
The next Organic World Congress will take place from 23 - 25 September 2020. The call for papers is…
Our three slide presentations on gobal, regional and crop data now ready and can be downloaded from…
At the BIOFACH Congress session *"The World of Organic Agriculture", the latest data on organic…
On Statistics.FiBL.org, the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture FiBL provides access to the…
At the 2019 Biofach Fair, the latest (2018) data and trends for four selected European markets were…
The organic market in Europe continues to grow. In 2017, it increased by almost 11 percent and…
The latest global data on organic farming worldwide will be presented by the Research Institute of…
The session on potential to unify the measurement of organic consumption behaviour across countries…
The session on global organic market will take place from 10 am to 10.30 am, on February 14, 2019 at…
The session on latest data and trends in Europe will take place from 5 pm to 6 pm, on February 13,…
The session on global organic farming and market trends will take place from 4 pm to 4.45 pm, on…
The website www.organicexport.info informs about the import regulations of important and emerging…
The session on the European organic market took place on on February 14, 2018 at BIOFACH,…
The session on global organic farming and market trends took place on February 14, 2018 at BIOFACH,…
The organic market in Europe continues to grow. In 2016, it increased by 11.4 % and nearly reached…
The session on the European organic market will take place place from 5 to 5.45 on February 14,…
The session on global organic farming and market trends will take place place from 4 pm to 4.45 pm,…
Navigating through the ever-changing import rules is now easier thanks to a new website:…
On November 16, 2017, Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union, announced the release…
On 20 November 2017 member states of the European Union (EU) represented in the Special Committee on…
The latest Australian Organic Market Report reveals the nation’s organic industry could be…
We are looking for data on organic lentins, millet and peas from Kazakhstan and Ukraine. Do you have…
The FiBL slides with the data on organic agriculture worldwide 2015 based on "The World of Organic…
I am writing to you as I am seeking for data on organic farming, in particular concerning the…
A new slide presentation with latest area data on organic viticulture worldwide and selected…
The latest figures for the Swiss organic market (from 2016), recently presented by Bio Suisse…
Data can found here: orgprints.org/31416/ and in our yearbook on page 118.
At the Biofach trade fair in February 2017, new market data for Austria were published. Furthermore…
An interactive map on organic in Europe was created by IFOAM EU (www.ifoam-eu.org) using data…
I have a question I hope you could help me with. In the chapter The Global Market for Organic Food…
At the BIOFACH Congress, where a wide range of topics will be discussed, researchers of FiBL will…
Another strong presence of the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL) at BIOFACH 2017 in…
With more than 11 million hectares of certified area or area under conversion in 2015, organic…
New European Union (EU) rules introducing a system of electronic certification for imported organic…
The keynote speech at the Organic Science Conference in Canada was held by Urs Niggli, director of…
Latin America is on its way to becoming an important supplier of organic products.
ASt the eighth…
I am a PhD Researcher currently examining organic regulations. I wanted some clarification on…
Yes, such data are available from Bio Suisse, which presents the latest market data annually. …
Over the last decade, the development of Organic Action Plans has gained momentum as a mechanism for…
The 1st TIPI Science Day & Technology Innovation Forum in China was held successfully in Shanghai,…
The booming U.S. organic industry posted new records in 2015, with total organic product sales…
Do you know if there is data available on the areas of different grain legumes grown organically in…
We are preparing a presentation on EU milk markets that would include any available data on organic…
The detailed programme of the TIPI Science Day in China is now available.
Speakers include (in…
I am writing my master thesis about the potential for natural herbal solutions instead of using…
The latest figures for the Swiss organic market (from 2015), recently presented by Bio Suisse…
I am a student looking for updated data on organic viticulture worldwide. Do you have an update of…
Demand for organic food in Europe saw another record year of growth in 2014; however, organic…
I looked at the infographic (see below) about organic production in the UK with interest but was…
We have put together production volumes for 2013, for a new report on sustainable fishery that is…
The New Zealand organic sector has grown by more than 11% per annum since 2012, according to the …
TIPI, the Technology Innovation Platform of IFOAM – Organics International, aims to foster…
On February 12, 2016, the fourth Science Day took place at BIOFACH, the World Organic Trade Fair, in…
Preliminary numbers suggest that the number of farms in 2015 is approximately the same as in the…
Survey results from 14 sustainability standards across nine commodity areas show new statistics and…
FiBL has prepared three presentations summarizing the key results of the FiBL-IFOAM survey on…
The 2016 Organic Market Report was launched on 23 February showing that the UK organic market…
A team of experts led by Newcastle University, UK, has shown that both organic milk and meat contain…
Organic agriculture is practiced in 172 countries, and 43.7 million hectares of agricultural land…
In 2014, the European organic market grew by approximately 7.6 percent to a value of more than 26…
The latest global data on organic farming will be presented by the Research Institute of Organic…
The session on global organic farming and market trends took place place on February 10, 2016, in at…
The Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL) presented the first results of its survey on…
In August 2015, we started our 17th survey on organic agriculture worldwide.
The new questionnaire…
Organic farming and organic consumption is increasing in France. Between January-July 2015, the…
The interactive data tables on key indicators and on crops worldwide are now online. Data on…
Acording to the latest data released by statistics Denmark, the organic market is now at 830 Million…
With its new specialized Twitter account @FiBLStatistics, the Research Institute of Organic…
The Soil Association’s 2015 Organic Market Report reveals sales of organic products increased by 4%…
The key data on organic agriculture in Europe are now available at orgprints.org/28706.
A number of statistical updates on the U.S. organic sector related have recently been released or…
The organic company Organic and Beyond has also translated the 2014 edition of "The World of Organic…
The European project "Data network for better European organic market information"…
Germany is not only the largest market for organic products in Europe but also one of its largest…
There are 3 presentations summarizing the key results of the FiBL-IFOAM survey on organic…
On February 12, 2015, partners of the OrganicDataNetweork prsented the latest data on organic…
The presentations at the session "The World of Organic Agriculture" are now online and can be…
The latest global data on organic farming will be presented by IFOAM – Organics International and…
In 2013, the European organic market grew by approximately six percent to a value of more than 24…
The session on global organic farming and market trends will take place place from 2 pm to 2.45 pm,…
The Sustainable Society Index (SSI) shows at a glance the level of sustainability of 151 countries.…
The Vision and Strategy for Organic Farming Research of TIPI, the Technology Innovation Platform of…
A workshop of the Technology Innovation Platform of the International Federation of Organic…
The second European Workshop on “finding practical solutions to current organic market data…
In 2013, 6.4 % of the German agricultural land was organically farmed, marking a 2 % increase over…
In the largest study of its kind, an international team of experts led by Newcastle University, UK,…
A new country report about organic farming in Lithuania is available at the Organic-Europe.net …
The Soil Association’s annual Organic Market Report reveals that the organic sector has seen growth…
Since 2009/2010, the import volumes to Germany have increased for many arable crops and dairy …
After a breather in 2012, the Danish organic food market has grown again in 2013. Consumers spent 6%…
Recently the 2013 edition of yearbook "Organic farming in Estonia" was published by the Estonian…
The 4th Latin American Congress on agroecology took place September 10 to 12, 2013 at the University…
The Argentinian competent authority SENASA has recently the latest data (per December 31, 2013) on…
On March 12, 2014, the European Union responded to the request made by Chile to be included in the…
The latest figures for the Swiss organic market (from 2013), recently presented by Bio Suisse (www.b…
A recent report from Organic-Market info about the latest edition of the FiBL-IFOAM survey on…
The UK Government can learn lessons from other European countries in how it stalls the declining…
In 2013, the French organic market continued to grow. The French organic market has doubled in 5…
On 25 March, the European Commission published a legislative proposal for a new organic food and…
The dynamic datatable with three key indicators on organic agriculture worldwide is now online for…
On February 2014, TIPI, the Technology Innovation Platform of the International Federation of…
On February 14, 2014, the BIOFACH Science Day took place for the second time. Science Day was a…
This publication provides an overview of developments and future prospects from the perspective of…
On February 2014, on Science Day at BIOFACH, TIPI, the Technology Innovation Platform of the…
Organic 3.0 – the future of organic – is on the agenda at BIOFACH 2014. 1.9 million certified…
In 2012 the European organic market grew by approximately six percent to a value of almost EUR 23…
At BIOFACH 2014 in Nuremberg, Germany, a number of sessions with information on organic farming…
Science Day will be held for the second time at BioFach, the World Organic Trade Fair in Nuremberg,…
Recently the OrganicDataNetwork project issued its statement on data collection and made a number of…
The 3rd issue of the OrganicDataNetwork newsletter contains some important news about progress made…
Report on the status of organic farming in Europe 2011, prepared by the Directorate General of…
In 2012, German organic farmers increased their sales revenues by 12 percent (to 1.53 billion…
Media release of Oktober 18, 2013 of the OrganicDataNetwork project
According to Statistics Sweden (SBC), organic products accounted for about 4 percent of all sales of…
Recently the UNCTAD Trade and Environment Review 2013 was launched. At a press conference in the…
The Research Institute of Organic Agriculture FiBL, in collaboration with the and the International…
After several years of decline since 2008 due to the recession, the organic market in the UK is…
In 2012, in Denmark the organic market has remained stable compared with 2011; it is now at 885…
Data on the organic and operators are provided by the Italian Information system for organic farming…
"Sharing achievements made and lessons learned" was the theme of the conference, which was held in…
The New Zealand Organic Market Report 2012 is the latest in a series of reports quantifying and…
A number of reports from the OrganicDataNetwork Project are now available online at the Organic…
Members of the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM) met in the Republic…
The international conference on organic agriculture in the Mediterranean will be held from the 2nd…
The second issue of the Newsletter of the OrganicDatatNetwork project is now online.
A new edition of "Organic agriculture Serbia at a glance" has been published. It contains a wealth …
The new FAO publication "Organic Agriculture: African Experiences in Resilience and Sustainability"…
According to a recent report of the Global Agriculture Information Network of the United States…
Growth driven by broad-scale support of organic foods
The 2013 Organic market report highlights key areas of growth in online retail, independent outlets…
Media release of April 30, 2013, of the OrganicDataNetwork project
On April 10 the Swiss organic umbrella organisation Bio Suisse presented the latest data on organic…
Eurostat maintains a database with data on organic agriculture in the countries of the European…
The presentations at the session on the European Market for Organic Food, which was organised by the…
On February 13, 2013, the session "The World of Organic Agriculture - Statistics and Emerging…
Andre Leu, President of the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM), gave…
Sales now top US$ 60 billion for the first time
The Young Organics BioFach Camp takes place on Thursday, 14th February from 12:00 to 17:00 in Room…
The European Commission has launched a public consultation on the review of the European policy on…
Canadian and Swiss organic producers will have increased opportunities to export their organic food…
The 14th edition of "The World of Organic Agriculture" will be launched at BioFach 2013 at…
Canada’s organic market continues to grow and broaden at the consumer level, and the organic area is…
The programme of Science Day is now available.
The Research Institute of Organic Agriculture FiBL and the International Federation of Organic…
The Sustainability Camp is taking place November 23-26, 2012, at the Head Office of the…
The contract for the Country of the Year at BioFach 2013 was ceremoniously signed in the Romanian…
The Italian organic market has been growing for nine consecutive years.
The new Australian Organic Market Report confirms that sales of organic products are now at at…
The first Newsletter of the OrganicDataNetwork project is now available at the project website. The…
The publication of a new meta-analysis by researchers at Stanford University (Smith-Spangler et al.…
France can be pleased with the steady growth of its organic agriculture. It occupies the fourth…
This first organic sector study for Saudi Arabia offers an overview of a young but steadily growing…
From 24 to 26 September 2012 the Organic Days were held in Larnaca on Cyprus. One of the conference…
The Finish Food Safety Authority Evira has recently published the latest figures on organic…
The Spanish Ministry of Agriculture has recently released the latest data on organic agriculture in…
Over 180 participants from more than 40 countries gathered to discuss the current state of organic…
Two independent organizations will maintain separate missions dedicated to advancing organic
Tomas Nørfelt Fibiger of the Danish Agricultural Advisory Service DLBR has recently updated his…
The German Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Proptecteion BMELV has recently updated its…
According to a recent report on the oneco website, a major increase of the organic area and market…
For the first time the update on production in Argentina is available also in English.
In the first six months of 2012 the organic area in France surpassed the one million hectare mark.…
The latest national statistics for the United Kingdom, produced by the Department for Environment,…
On June 1st, 2012, leaders of the organic movements in Asia agreed on the formation of a regional…
Recently the Swiss organic umbrella organisation Bio Suisse released the latest data on the Swiss…
Blog by Urs Niggli, director of the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL) in Switzerland.…
Twenty years on from the original Earth Summit, the International Federation of Organic Agriculture…
The Second African Organic Conference (AOC2) ”Mainstreaming organic agriculture in the African…
New study on support of organic farming in the European Union published
Global sales of organic products continue to defy the economic downturn, growing in 2010 and with…
Albania’s organic sector is still nascent, but is developing most dynamically. The Research…
All slide presentations on organic agriculture worldwide 2010 are now ready.
The OrganicDataNetwork project, which was recently launched, has now started a survey about data…
Organic Trade Association’s 2012 Organic Industry Survey shows continued growth
Press release of the European project OrganicDataNetwork
Report about the first meeting of the European OrganicDataNetwork project
For the fourth time, the brochure "Organic Farming in Estonia" has been published. It informs about…
Northeast Organic Farmers Association of New York (NOFA-NY) and the US Department of Agriculture’s…
According to provisional data for 2011, compiled by the German Federation of the Organic Food…
The date of the 2nd African Organic Conference (AOC2) ”Mainstreaming organic agriculture in the…
Peruvian economist F. Javier Martinez reports that organic agriculture continued to grow in exports…
The dyanamic data table with the basic data on organic agriculture worldwide: Organic agricultural…
The National Association Serbia Organica has published, together with the Deutsche Gesellschaft für…
A new country report about organic farming in Portugal is now available from Catarina Crisostomo.
At the BioFach Congress, Amarjit Sahota of Organic Monitor presented the current situation of the…
In Bulgaria, considerable growth occurred in organic farming between 2009–2010. The certified land…
Based on data from twelve organic inspection bodies in Germany, the Agricultural Market Information…
The European Union and the United States announced on February 15, 2012, that beginning June 1,…
FiBL and IFOAM are presenting the latest data on organic agriculture worldwide at BioFach in…
At the BioFachCongress 2012 one session will with recent developments in organic agriculture in the…
The Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL) has recently released the first…
The United States' Agriculture Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan announced on October 25, 2011, 23…
On September 21 and 22, 2011, the first Central American Organic Congress and Fair (Primer Congreso…
The 17th Organic World Congress (OWC) of the International Federation of Organic Agriculture…
Swiss institute presents a training manual for Africa
In the Framework of the German Federal Scheme for Organic Farming and other Forms of Sustainable…
The Pakistan Standards and Quality Control Authority (PSQCA) of the Government of Pakistan has…
Young organic and fair trade activists from all over the world have founded Young Organics e.V., a…
One and a half million hectares are under organic agricultural management in Spain. The minister has…
The Canadian Organic Trade Association (COTA, www.ota.com/otacanada.html) calculates the Canadian…
The Global Agricultural Trade System of the Foreign Agricultural Services (FAS) of USDA now includes…
According to a recent press release of the German Ministry for Food, Agriculture and Consumer…
In a recent press release the Organic Trade Assocation Canada informs about latest developments…
The President of Ukraine vetoed the law on Ukrainian Organic Production that had been passed by the…
In the Czech Republic, in 2010 the organic agricultural land incresaed to almost 450'000 hectares.…
The full proposals of the first call of the CORE Organic II project (www.coreorganic2.org) have been…
According to a press release, published at the occassion of the 3104th Council meeting of the…
The Estonian Organic Farming Foundation has recently published a brochure on organic farming in…
The European Commission has annouced that the European Union and Canada have reached agreement on an…
To operate successfully in importing organic products to Switzerland and the European Union, it is…
According to Organic Market Info 170-page study entitled "Japanese Organic Market 2010-2011" has…
FiBL has now published a revised version of its background information on E. coli.
In May 2011, the Belize Organic Alliance (BOA) completed the first organic certification process for…
There has been much speculation about the pathogenic EHEC bacterial strain that has claimed the…
In November 2010, Sida, the Swedish International Development Cooepration Agency (www.sida.se) appro…
On the occasion of the extraordinary meeting of the Agriculture Council the IFOAM EU Group (www.ifoa…
At a press conference on May 19, 2011, Agence Bio, the Frnch Agency for organic agriculture,…
Interest in pushing for the development of ecological based farming in Africa led some key…
Slides on the results from the FiBL and IFOAM survey as published in The World of Organic…
UNCTAD and UNEP have released two excellent advocacy tools for encouraging the uptake of organic and…
The Organic Standard (TOS, www.organicstandard.com) has published The Organic Certification…
The Organic Exchange organization, which has operated as an information platform for organic…
Chinese imports of organic foods were about US$ 20 million in 2009, a limited amount compared with…
The Ukrainian Parliament (Verkhovna Rada) has—as one of the last in Eastern Europe—approved a new…
The Netherlands-based Agro Eco-Louis Bolk Institute has been contracted to set up a new organic…
According to a recent press release of OTA, the Organic Trade Organisation, the organic market…
According to the latest Soil Association Organic Market Report, Sales of organic products fell 5.9…
On March 30, 2011, the Swiss organic umbrella organisation Bio Suisse (www.biosuisse.ch) released…
The magazine Ecology & Farming, published by the International Federation of Organic Agriculture…
Recently the European Group of the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements has…
Detailed data tables of the data published in "The World of Organic Agriculture 2011" are now…
The successful 5th Producer Conference of the Organic Research Centre Elm Farm was held on the 17th…
With its Implementation Action Plan, the Technology Platform for Organic Food and Farming Research,…
At the BioFach session "The European Market for Organic Food" experts presented the latest trends in…
In 2010, the organic agricultural land increased by 12 percent in the Czech Republic. More than ten…
The fourth yearbook on organic agriculture in the Czech Republic has now been published by the the…
According to the latest survey on organic agriculture worldwide (data 2009), the total grape area is…
At the BioFach Congress 2011 the latest figures on organic agriculture world-wide, on the global…
Organic agriculture is practised in 160 countries and 37.2 million hectares of agricultural land are…
ACTMedia News Agency, Feburary 20, 2012
Thirty-seven million hectares of agricultural land worldwide are farmed organically. The countries…
In preparation for the IFOAM General Assembly (GA) to be held from October 3-5, 2011 in Namyangju…
Recently the second edition of Organic Monitors 'European Market for Organic Food and Drink' was…
The Executive Council of the African Union (AU), at its Eighteenth Ordinary Session in January 2011,…
In three languages, the new activity report is a fascinating look at the most important projects…
A new report of the Global Agricultural Information Network (GAIN) of the United States Department…
Nineteen participants from the public and private sectors in 15 Asian countries/regions, as well as…
FiBL recently received the latest data about organic agriculture in Peru. These data were provided…
The First International Conference on Organic Food Quality and Health Research takes place May…
Organic Monitor has recently released the 3rd edition of the Global Organic Food & Drink market…
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), together with partners, is…
According to a recent government study the organic market in Spain is growing. Export plays a major…
On November 8, 2010 the National Organic Program (NOP, www.ams.usda.gov/AMSv1.0/nop) made available…
The Department of Agriculture of the Philippines said it will allocate an initial 900 million…
Ilse A. Rasmussen is new coordinator of Organic Eprints at ICROFS, the International Centre for…
ZIMVEST, a collection of news excerpts from the web related to Zimbabwe, reports about recent…
Organic policy is in the process of being developed in South Africa. The national movement, led by…
The First International Conference on Organic Beekeeping took place from August 27-29, 2010, in…
Organic Food is being purchased by a growing number of Irish shoppers every year, according to new…
During September of this year of international biodiversity, the 3rd International Conference on the…
The International expert workshop on 'Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) - methods, models, and databases…
Canada’s organic sector receives 6.5 million Canadian Dollars for research in announcement of…
On September 21, 2010 the Network for Practical Research in Organic Farming (VÖP) was founded by…
For small and marginal farmers, a Participatory Guarantee System (PGS) may be introduced in all…
The Kenya Organic Agriculture Network (KOAN) recently launched its 2010-2014 Strategic Plan during a…
The latest National Statistics produced by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs…
In 2012, Zambia will host the second African Organic Conference. The conference will be organized by…
This new publication represents a unique collection of European and Asian perspectives on the…
From August 22 to 27, 2010, the 28th Congress of the International Society of Horticultural Sciences…
On July 12, 2010, the Technology Platform TP Organics held its Stakeholder Forum in Brussels,…
An updated report on the current status of organic farming in Germany has recently been published at…
The new figures about the Italian organic industry released by SINAB (Italian National Information…
In November 2010 BioFach América Latina and ExpoSustentat will again take place in Brazil.…
On July 19, 2010, the European Commission opened a two-day conference to debate the new Common…
GOMA, the Global Market Access project, is a joint initiative of the Food and Agriculture…
Japan has been added to the EU list of third countries whose organic regulatory programs are deemed…
Recently Agence Bio released the latest (2009) figures on organic agriculture in the country. There…
In the most recent edition of the Avalon Ekoconnect newsletter on organic farming in Central and…
In preparation for the 3rd ISOFAR (International Society of Organic Agriculture Research) Scientific…
In preparation for the first Asian IFOAM (International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements)…
The Technical Secretariat of the Inter-American Commission for Organic Agriculture (ICOA) and the…
The German Ministry of Agriculture recently released the latest (2009) figures on organic…
The transnational partnership CORE Organic published a pre-announcement July 5, 2010, of a common…
The new EU rules on organic food labelling including the requirement to display the new EU organic…
In June 2010, the Directorate-General for Agriculture And Rural Development of the European…
The Organic.Edunet web portal was publicly launched in May 2010. It aims to serve as an online…
The Interamerican Commission on Organic Agriculture CIAO, consisting of the competent authorities in…
On June 16, 2010, the European Commission withdrew its proposal for regulating organic wine making…
Government and private sector participants from 12 countries in East, South-East and South Asia,…
A new book under the title of "Entering the Organic Export Market" has recently been released. This…
According to Biologica's Bio monitor 2009, the organic area went up to 51'911 hectares in 2009, an…
Certified organic food and beverage products contributed 485 million NZ dollars* to the New Zealand…
The Czech Technology Platform for Organic Agriculture CTPOA was founded with the aim of uniting and…
The Namibian Organic Association (www.NOA.org.na) is finally putting Namibia on the international…
Minister Ciarán Cuffe from the Irish Government will be opening the Sustainable Foods Summit to take…
The 5th Latin American and Caribbean Meeting of producers and researchers in organic agriculture and…
Recently the Spanish Ministry of Agriculture MARM released the 2009 data for organic agriculture in…
On March 31, 2010, Commission Regulation No 271/2010 regarding the organic logo was published in the…
The Technology Platform TP Organics will present its Strategic Research Agenda at the European…
Organic product companies are increasingly turning to sustainability in order to shore up their…
The potential to create a booming organic agriculture sector across Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and…
In 2009 the turnover with organic food in Austria reached 984 million Euros. The domestic market…
The European Commission has recently published an updated list of public authorities and approved…
Organized by the Ministry of Agriculture, Water Resources and Fisheries in association with the…
U.S. sales of organic products continued to grow during 2009 despite the distressed state of the…
The Soil Association has recently published its organic market report for the UK. It predicts a…
According to Business Mirror, president Arroyo of the Philippines has signed the Organic…
At the conference International Conference on Organic Farming ICOF which was held in April 2010 in…
According to GulfNews.com, the demand for organic produce is growing but the UAE has to increase…
The Taipe Times reports, that choosing organic foods has become more than just a fad in recent…
On March 30, consolidated data on organic land, land use and crops as well as the number of…
On March 31, 2010, the new EU organic logo, introduced by Commission Regulation (EU) No 271/2010 was…
A collection of Power Point presentations has been prepared by FiBL in order to illustrate the key…
Recently, the Swiss organic umbrella organisation Bio Suisse presented the 2009 data on organic…
Recently a broshure was published about organic farming in Estonia. It informs extensively about the…
The Spanish Society for Organic Farming SEAE will organise its 9th Scientific Congress on organic…
In his presentation on 'The Global Market for Organic Food & Drink' at BioFach 2010, Amarjit Sahota…
According to a new report released by Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union,…
Recently the homepage of GOMA, the Global Market Access project, was launched. GOMA is a joint…
Organic cotton weathered the global economic storm during the 2008/09 farming season, albeit with…
Tutto Bio 2010, the yearbook of organic farming is available now. Published by Egaf Edizioni, this…
Some 43'500 trade visitors (2009: 46'777) streamed into the exhibition centre in Nürnberg from 17–20…
FiBL and IFOAM present new facts and figures about organic agriculture world-wide at the BioFach…
On February 8, 2010, the European Commission officially announced the winner of the EU organic logo…
In Italy, a technology platform for organic was founded on January 19, 2010 in Rome, at the premises…
The congress parallel to BioFach and Vivaness from February 17–20, 2010, offers a comprehensive…
A Desk for Organic Agriculture has been established in the Ministry of Agriculture. This is reported…
According to the latest FiBL/IFOAM survey at least 150'000 hectares of organic grapes are grown…
At the BioFach Congress 2010, the latest figures on organic agriculture world-wide will be…
The German Federation of the Organic Food Industry BOELW has recently published the latest market…
At the regional collaboration meeting held on November 19, 2009 in Seoul, South Korea, a data…
The first edition of 'Organic Agriculture' will be published in spring 2010 by Springer. It is the…
According to Urs Niggli, Director of the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture FiBL and member…
Local inspection services for organic certification are now available in Uzbekistan. In cooperation…
The European Commission has published the call for applications regarding the expert group for…
Climate change directly influences food production and food security. To address these new…
At the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, the farmers' organisations are calling for…
Copenhagen Climate Summit: FiBL calls for worldwide promotion of organic farming
According to the homepage of the Copenhagen Summit, sustainability is one of the main focal points…
Over 3400 students from all 27 EU Member States participated in the EU organic logo competition. Out…
Agriculture must use fewer inputs and consider climate and biodiversity say experts on the 2nd…
According to new research from the Soil Association at least 3.2 million tonnes of carbon would be…
The first newsletter of the LowInputBreeds is now available at the LowInputBreeds website.
A Power Point presentation with graphs and explanatory notes on the current status of organic…
According to AMA-Marketing, presently 3 percent of the apples are grown organically in Austria,…
The European Commission will soon publish a call for applications with a view to appointing members…
The new FAO Glossary on Organic Agriculture contains 401 concepts with synonyms, variants,…
In a recent press release BioFach informs about current market trends. FiBL provided some of the…
IFOAM EU Group organises its second Organic Congress to bring this time to the attention the…
The International Coffee Organisation has compiled the latest export data on organic coffee and…
The Technology Platform TP Organics has reached major achievements in the first half year 2009 on…
More than 300 participants made their way to El Salvador to the Fourth meeting of the organic sector…
A large-scale project which aims to improve animal health and product quality in European organic…
In its 2008 Annual Report, the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements IFOAM…
The Foreign Agricultural Service of the United States Department of Agriculture has recently…
The IFOAM database on Participatory Guarantee Systems for Organic Agriculture (PGS) intends to help…
The Autonomous University of Chapingo is organising several seminars for government officials and…
The proposed Organic Research Centres Alliance ORCA intends to internationally network and…
The symposium ’Soil Fertility and Crop Nutrition Management in Mediterranean Organic Agriculture’…
The government of Pakistan has planned to initiate 'National Programme for the Promotion of Organic…
In August 2009, the conference "Forstering healthy food systems through organic agriculture - Focus…
During the 1st African Organic Conference held in Kampala, Uganda, a one day workshop was held on…
Although the organic sector in Ukraine had been exclusively export oriented, since the beginning of…
About 200 participants from 22 countries (the majority in Eastern Europe) came to the second…
The Kenya organic domestic market is growing fast. A recent study of the Kenya Organic Agriculture…
According to the latest data, in Italy more than one million hectares are under organic management…
Trevor Sargent, the Irish Minister for Food and Horticulture at the Department of Agriculture,…
A recent report informs about the organic production and export potential in the the Republic of…
Total sales in the organic sector in 2008 are stated as 5.85 billion Euros compared with the…
At the fourth meeting of the organic sector of Latin America and the Caribbean (October 12-16, 2009)…
Business people, experts and newcomers to the organic market from Romania, but also Poland, Ukraine,…
Organic production has grown rapidly in Estonia, one of the reasons being the financial support…
On August 6, 2009, the detailed rules on organic aquaculture animal and seaweed production were…
The next Ecofruit conference takes place in Hohenheim near Stuttgart in Germany. Conference…
(DAFF) Trevor Sargent, Minister for Food and Horticulture at the Department of Agriculture,…
The Symposium will be held at the Lisboa Congress Centre as part of the 28th International…
The Worldwatch Institute has prepared an extensive overview article about organic farming…
Organic farming has emerged as a sustainable alternative to enhance food security in Zimbabwe as…
According to recent press release of Green Marketing, Czechs bought most of their organic food in…
The market for organic food in Finland experienced slow growth for several years but in 2007 it grew…
The third yearbook of organic farming in the Czech Republic was recently published by the Czech…
The final report of the ORWINE project is focussing on recommendations for elaborating rules for…
The North American organic coffee market topped 1.3 billion US Dollars in 2008, making it the single…
The fourth Organic Meeting and Organic Producers' Fair of Latin America and the Caribbean will be…
Recently the third edition of the Indian Directory of Organic Stakeholders was published. It lists…
Chances and challenges for organic farming in times of climate change, biodiversity loss and global…
On July 15, 2009, the research Technology Platform ‘TP Organics’ held its annual Stakeholder Forum…
The 9th European Summer Academy on Organic Farming - Biocademy 2009 - was held on June 24 to 25,…
The next survey on organic farming worldwide will start mid 2009. As in the previous years, it will…
In Austria the number of farms and the organic land increased also in 2008. With 13.8 percent of…
The first Sustainable Foods Summit drew to a successful close at the end of June in Amsterdam, with…
A completely updated report on the current situation of organic farming in Germany is now available…
After more than one and a half years of discussion, the Standing Committee on Organic Farming…
Recently the Global Organic Cotton Community Platform was created for active members of the global…
On 29 June 2009 the Executive Board of the International Society of Organic Agriculture Research…
On June 24, 2009, the Government of Canada revealed the new organic logo that will give organic…
The European action plan for organic food and farming recommends, in action 11, establishing an…
The first African Organic Conference “Fast tracking sustainable development in Africa through…
The unit in charge of organic agriculture at Costa Rica's Ministry of Agriculture AROA has recently…
More than 200 participants participated at the African Organic Conference in May 2009, which focused…
Findings from the 2009 U.S. Families’ Organic Attitudes and Beliefs Study, show that three in ten…
The economic slowdown is impacting global organic food sales. After reporting high growth rates for…
Sales of organic food in France jumped 25 percent last year and more than 60 percent in three years…
Since the late 1990s, U.S. organic production has more than doubled, but the consumer market has…
At a recent meeting, the Ministers for Agriculture of the European Union agreed on a common…
On May 11, 2009, Queen Rania of Jordan launched the National Programme for Organic Farming…
At the 21st meeting of the FAO Committee on Agriculture, held April 22-25, 2009 in Rome, a…
The European Union Group of the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements IFOAM, the…
Uganda earned over 22 million US Dollars in 2008 from organic products exports. The country has over…
Over three thousand participants have chosen a Brazilian organic logo. Three designs were presented…
From May 19- 22, 2009, the African Organic Conference, titled 'Fast tracking sustainable development…
From April 8-12, 2009, the National Federation for Organic Agriculture of Senegal FENAB organized,…
On May 5, 2009, US Agriculture Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan announced 50 million US Dollars…
Sales of organic products in the USA, both food and non-food, reached 24.6 billion US Dollars by…
For Spain a major growth of organic land is reported for 2008. According to the Spanish Ministry of…
The European Union (EU) is looking for a new logo for organic products. Young artists or designers…
The recently published study 'Organic Aquaculture 2009 – Production and Markets' looks back at the…
In Argentina the organic agricultural land increased by 36 percent in 2008, and it is now more than…
Recently in Hungary a Technology Platform for organic farming was founded. The inaugural meeting…
Biologica, the organic sector organisation in The Netherlands, recently presented the figures for…
In Denmark the organically managed land went up by 10 percent during 2008. Currently more than…
Italy's organic market continues to grow. In 2008, the Italians spent 5.4 percent more on organic…
In order to strengthen the African organic network and ensure its sustainability, IFOAM is…
The recently published leaflet 'EU environment related indicators 2009' presents 10…
The BioFach Newsletter reports in its latest edition, that an organic cotton project was started in…
The turnover with organic food in the Czech Republic grew by 40 percent in 2008 and reached 1.8…
Global retail sales of organic cotton apparel and home textile products reached an estimated $3.2…
The 2009 market report for the UK has now been released by the Soil Association, showing that UK…
The Integrated Project 'Improving quality and safety and reduction of costs in the European organic…
In Austria, the turnover with organic food increased by more than six percent in 2008, according to…
The first BioFach India now takes place together with IOTF, the India Organic Trade Fair, in the…
On March 24, 2009, the Swiss organic umbrella organisation Bio Suisse presented the latest figures…
For the second time at Biofach all the 35 African stands were grouped together under “Organic…
After a three-month worldwide search and review of dozens of qualified applicants, the International…
India is bestowed with lot of potential to produce all varieties of organic products due to its…
African agricultural productivity, under threat following years of declining investment, policy…
According to the BioFach Newsletter of March 6, 2009, of the 1.1 million hectares of agricultural…
The German Central Market and Price Reporting Bureau (ZMP) has compiled a number of graphs on…
At BioFach 2009 several sessions related to organic agriculture and the organic market in Europe and…
The tables as presented in 'The World of Organic Agriculture 2009' and additional data are now…
According to a new USDA GAIN Report released February 2009, the organic market in China has been…
According to the German Federation of the Organic Food Industry BOELW, the organic area increased to…
Organic agriculture is developing rapidly, and statistical information is now available from 141…
On February 19, 2009, the IFOAM EU Group launched its dossier on the new organic regulation. The…
The Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL) and the International Federation of Organic…
The 10th edition of 'The World of Organic Agriculture' documents recent developments in global…
The report "Best Practices for Organic Policy. What developing country Governments can do to promote…
The Second Round Table of the Eastern European countries ‘Organic Agriculture and Legal Framework’…
In May 2007, the Danish Ministry of Food asked the Intermational Centre for Research in Organic Food…
Recently the Italian Network for Research in Organic Farming was founded as a platform for…
On December 2, 2008, the Technology Platform TP Organics was launched. TP Organics is a platform for…
An international team of organic market specialists profiles the booming organic markets in 27…
A survey conducted by Newspoll has revealed that 61 percennt Australian grocery buyers buy some…
The partners of the European project ORGAP (Development of criteria and procedures for the…
The International Task Force on Harmonization and Equivalency in Organic Agriculture ITF concluded…
In August 2008 a report on organic agriculture in italy was published by the Global Agriculture…
On September 1, 2008, the Israeli law for the regulation of organic produce came into force. The law…
On September 1, 2008, the European research project CERTCOST - Economic analysis of certification…
Organic agriculture can be good for food security in Africa, says a study launched in Geneva on…
The implementing rules for the new regulation on organic production were published in the Official…
The European Commission launched the European Union's new Organic Farming Campaign on July 26, 2008,…
The Organic.Edunet questionnaire on educational needs in the area of organic farming and…
The European research project Evaluation of the European Action Plan for Organic Food and Farming…
From 18 to 20 June 2008 the second conference of the International Society of Agriculture Research…
At the occasion of the 16th Organic World Congress of the International Federation of Organic…
From June 16 to 20, 2008, the 16th IFOAM Organic World Congress, including pre-conferences, took…
ICROFS, the International Centre for Research in Organic Food Systems was established by the Danish…
Scientists from EU’s largest organic research project, QLIF, are ready to present their results on…
www.bioaktuell.ch, the recently launched platform with technical information for Swiss organic…
On April 30, 2008, an organic action plan was launched in Ireland. Speaking at the launch Minister…
The organically managed area continues to grow in Austria but the current demand for organic…
From April 10 to 12, 2008, 228 participants from 25 countries came together for the ‘International…
The 2007 yearbook on organic farming in the Czech Republic has now been published by the Ministry of…