Current Statistics on Organic Agriculture Worldwide: Area, Operators, International Trade and Retail Sales

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The 26th survey of certified organic agriculture worldwide was carried out by the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture FiBL in collaboration with many partners from around the world. The results are published jointly with IFOAM – Organics International. The survey was supported by the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO), the Sustainability Fund of Coop Switzerland, Bio Suisse and NürnbergMesse.
For this survey, 188 countries were covered using the following indicators: Area, producers and other operator types, retail sales and exports and imports. In total, data were provided by more than 200 experts. Governments, private sector organizations, certifiers and market research companies have contributed to the data collection effort. Several international certifiers deserve special mention as they provided data on several countries: ACO Certification, Bioinspecta, Bioagricert, CCPB, CERES, Certisys, Control Union, Ecocert, Mayacert, Ecoglobe, Ekoagros, Imocert, Kiwa BCS Öko-Garantie GmbH, LETIS, NASAA Certified Organic (NCO), Organic Agriculture Certification Thailand (ACT), Organización Internacional Agropecuaria (OIA), OneCert and Quality Certification Services (QCS).
Our collaboration with the Inter-American Commission for Organic Agriculture (CIAO) eases data collection in Latin America and the Caribbean ubstantially. Data from the Mediterranean countries were supplied by the Mediterranean Organic Agriculture Network (MOAN, c/o Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Bari). Data from the Pacific Islands were provided by the Pacific Organic and Ethical Trade Community (POET.com). Another important source covering many countries is Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. For more details about the data providers, the countries and indicators covered as well as general notes on the data, see page 349 (https://orgprints.org/id/eprint/54617/).