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Organic farming world-wide: Latest figures to be at BioFach 2010 (January 22, 2010) As every year the session "The World of Organic Agriculture - Statistics and Emerging Trends" will take place on Friday, (February 19, 2010) from 10 to 11 a.m. This year the session will be chaired be IFOAM's executive director Markus Arbenz. The latest results on the current status of organic agriculture world-wide, as published in the edition 2010 of The World of Organic Agriculture - Statistics and Emerging Trends, will be presented. >>More information.
EU organic logo: Commentary by FiBL director Urs
Niggli
Over 3400 students from all 27 EU Member States had participated in the EU organic logo competition. Out of all of the submissions, the jury made a pre-selection of the best 100 logos in the first judging round. In the following stage, three designs were selected (see picture above). These three designs can now be voted upon by the public. The public online vote on a new EU organic logo is open from 7 December 2009 until 31 January 2010 at the logo competition homepage. More information/Links
Expert group for technical advice on organic production: Call for applicationsnow published
The text of the call and the application forms are accessible via the European Commission Organic Farming website at www.organic-farming.eu. >>More information
Round Table on Organic Agriculture and Climate Change established
Austria: Organic apple production to increase in
the near future
FAO Glossary on organic agriculture now online
It is is available in English, French and Spanish. The Arabic and Chinese versions are under development.
European research project LowInputBreeds begins
February 3-7, 2010: International conference on organic agriculture and environmental problems in North Cyprus (October 8, 2009) The international Conference 'Organic Agriculture in Scope of Environmental Problems' takes place February 3 to 7, 2010 in Famagusta in North Cyprus under the auspices of local authorities. The conference is organized by the EMCC Institute (an EU supported network led by active scientists from different countries). Some of the papers will be published in an international scientific journal. There is a special incentive for young researchers. The best presentation and best poster will be awarded. >>More information
Ukraine: Domestic market is growing
To propagate the organic message, a series of books (including classics by Rudolf Steiner, Ehrenfried Pfeiffer and Alex Podolinski) as well as an organic magazine are published and distributed by the Organic Federation of Ukraine. >>More
Hungary: Technology platform for organic food and farming founded (September 21, 2009) Recently in Hungary a Technology Platform for organic farming was founded. The inaugural meeting took place in April 2009. >>More
Italy: One million hectares of organic land in
2008
Ireland: New organic advisory group, Forás Orgánach
UK: 2008 data released (August 28, 2009) During 2008 the organic land area in the UK increased
by three percent and now accounts for more than 700'00 hectares. >>read
more
Organic Agriculture in Estonia: New report
In Estonia, organic land has grown by eleven times since 2000, but processing and marketing has not kept up with this growth. The Estonian Organic Farming Action Plan 2007-2013 and the Estonian Rural Development Plan 2007-2013 will contribute to the growth of the organic sector in Estonia. A broshure with a complete country report on organic farming in Estonia 2008 is now available in English and Estonian. >> Broshure
European Union: Implementing rules on organic aquaculture published (August 10, 2009) On August 6, 2009, the detailed rules on organic aquaculture animal and seaweed production were published in the Official Journal of the European Union. >> More
World: Organic agriculture more than doubled since 2000
2009 edition of 'The World of Organic Agriculture'
The book also contains information on the global market for organic food, activities of UN organizations, the latest developments in organic certification, standards and regulations and insights into current status and emerging trends for organic agriculture by geographical region. The newly launched homepage www.organic-world.net offers background information as well as graphes and tables.
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(January
11, 2010) According to 
(December
18, 2009) The European Commission has now published the call for applications
with a view to appointing members of the expert group for technical
advice on organic agriculture. 
Climate
change directly influences food production and food security. To address
these new challenges, the Round Table on Organic Agriculture and Climate
Change was established on December 16, 2009, at the United Nations
Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. 
(November
13, 2009) According to AMA-Marketing, presently 3 percent of the apples
are grown organically in Austria, which is about 4'000 tons. This
quantity covers about half the Austrian requirements. Every second
organic apple is imported. 
(November
6, 2009) The new FAO Glossary on Organic Agriculture contains 401
concepts with synonyms, variants, definitions, remarks and context
fields where appropriate. 
(October
8, 2009) A large-scale project which aims to improve animal health
and product quality in European organic and ‘low input’
livestock production systems has just begun. The LowInputBreeds project
unites 21 partners from Europe and further afield and will develop
integrated breeding and management strategies to tackle the issue
of improved animal health and food quality. It will run until 2014
and is co-funded by the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme
for Research and Technological Development. >>
(September
22, 2009) Although the organic sector in Ukraine has been exclusively
export oriented for a long time, since the beginning of 2009 several
Ukrainian products have been on sale on the domestic market. 
(September
16, 2009) According to the latest data, in Italy more than one million
hectares are under organic management (December 31, 2008). However,
compared with the previous year, there has been a decrease in the
organic land area. At the occasion of the SANA fair in Bologna, the
Italian Minister Zaia presented the latest figures, compiled by the
Ministry of Agriculture MIPAF and the Information System for Organic
Agriculture SINAB, based on the information of the certifiers. 
(September
7, 2009) Trevor Sargent, the Irish Minister for Food and Horticulture
at the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, named the members
of Forás Orgánach on August 28, 2009. Forás Orgánach
is a new body which was established to drive forward the development
of the organic sector in Ireland.
(August
11, 2009) In 2008, organic land (approx. 87'000 hectares) was close
to ten percent of all agricultural land in use, with 1245 organic producers.
The size of organic farmland has expanded from year to year, to an average
area of 70 hectares per farm. Estonia’s largest organic farm has
over 1000 hectares of land. 
(July
31, 2009) The Worldwatch Institute has prepared an extensive overview
article about organic farming world-wide. Some of it is based
on the data compiled by FiBL and IFOAM and on other findings of the
book 'The World of Organic Agriculture 2009'. Furthermore a lot of current
relevant literature is cited. 
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Institute of Organic Agriculture FiBL
