The organic coffee export statistics are based on Certificates of Origin and and the Monthly Reports of the ICO member organisations. Earlier data show the development over several years.
The International Coffee Organization is the main intergovernmental organization for coffee, bringing together producing and consuming countries to tackle the challenges facing the world coffee sector through international cooperation. It makes a practical contribution to the world coffee economy and to improving standards of living in developing countries through various measures.
The ICO was set up in London in 1963 under the auspices of the United Nations because of the great economic importance of coffee. It has administered six International Coffee Agreements (ICAs), the most recent of which entered into force provisionally on 1 October 2001 and definitively on 17 May 2005. Its 77 Members include 45 coffee exporting and 32 importing countries, and it functions through the International Coffee Council, the Executive Board, the Private Sector Consultative Board, the Executive Director and a small Secretariat.
According to the ICO homepage, coffee is one of the world’s largest traded commodities produced in more than 60 countries, providing a livelihood for some 25,000,000 coffee farming families around the world. Many of these countries are heavily dependent on coffee, which can account for over 75% of their total export earnings. Among consumers coffee is a universally popular drink, with over US$70 billion in retail sales a year. ICO exporting Members account for over 97% of world coffee production and its importing Members are responsible for around 80% of world coffee consumption.
Source: ICO Homepage, Accessed October 29, 2009
More information
Links
- ICO.org Homepage
- Organic-World.net: Organic coffee
Editor's note
Some of the data compiled by ICO seem not to be consistent with those compiled by FiBL and IFOAM in the frame of the global organic survey. FiBL and partners are currently working on this issue.
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