Organic Farming and Market Development in Europe and the European Union

Summary

In 2020, the organic sector’s development in Europe was characterised by continued growth in all key indicators. In 2020, the organic market grew substantially more than the organic area, thus continuing the past several years’ trend at an increased rate. A lot of this exceptional, often double-digit growth must be attributed to the pandemic.
While it is good to see strong market growth, the organic farmland area must continue growing faster to reach the 25 percent organic area share goal by 2030, as set out by the European Commission (2020) in its Farm to Fork strategy.