editors_name: Willer, Helga
editors_name: Yussefi-Menzler, Minou
editors_name: Sorensen, Neil
type: book
datestamp: 2008-02-28
lastmod: 2009-08-20 14:38:42
metadata_visibility: show
title: The World of Organic Agriculture - Statistics and Emerging Trends 2008
ispublished: pub
subjects: countries_world
full_text_status: public
keywords: Statistics, organic farming world-wide, land use, Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, Latin America, Australia & Oceania
abstract: The 2008 edition of this annual publication documents recent developments in global organic agriculture. It includes contributions from representatives of the organic sector from throughout the world and provides comprehensive organic farming statistics that cover surface area under organic management, numbers of farms and specific information about commodities and land use in organic systems. The book also contains information on the global market of the burgeoning organic sector, the latest developments in organic certification, standards and regulations, and insights into current status and emerging trends for organic agriculture by continent. 

For this edition, all statistical data and regional review chapters have been thoroughly updated. Completely new chapters on organic agriculture in the Pacific, on the International Task Force on Harmonization and Equivalence in Organic Agriculture and on organic aquaculture have been added. 


date: 2008
date_type: published
publisher: IFOAM, Bonn and FiBL, Frick
refereed: never
citation: Willer, Helga; Yussefi-Menzler, Minou and Sorensen, Neil (Eds.) (2008) The World of Organic Agriculture - Statistics and Emerging Trends 2008. IFOAM, Bonn and FiBL, Frick.
document_url: http://orgprints.org/13123/2/willer-yussefi-sorensen-2008-final-tables.pdf
document_url: http://orgprints.org/13123/4/world-of-organic-agriculture-2008.pdf