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IFOAM EU Group: Position Vacancy: Financial and Legal Officer

(27/8/2010) The IFOAM EU Group is looking for a Financial and Legal Officer. The application form should be submitted to info(at)ifoam-eu.org before 3rd October 2010. More information is available at the homepage of the IFOAM EU Group.

Organic-Europe.net: Update of address database

(15/08/2010) The address and link database at Organic Europe is currently updated. One new category has been introduced: "Magazines and websites related to organic food and farming". For the market & trade category the distinction beween organisations and companies is now made. We would like to ask our readers to send suggestions for organisations to be listed as well as corrections to FiBL.

>> Contact: Helga Willer, e-mail: helga.willer @ fibl.org

 

TP Organics: Report from the Stakeholder Forum in July

(03/08/2010) On July 12, 2010, the Technology Platform TP Organics held its Stakeholder Forum in Brussels, bringing together small and medium enterprises (SMEs), civil society organisations, researchers, representatives of public institutions, and other stakeholders from the organic sector from all over Europe. >>read more

 

Germany: Updated report at the Ministry's homepage

(31/07/2010) An updated report on the current status of organic farming in Germany has recently been published at the homepage of Germany's Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection BMVEL. >> More

 

Common Agricultural Policy: Organic farming can deliver best solutions to meet public demands

On July 19, 2010, the European Commission opened a two-day conference to debate the new Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and to discuss the results of the related public consultation. These results clearly show that the public gives high priority to sustainable resource use, supply of healthy food, and the maintenance of diverse farming systems throughout the EU. System approaches, such as organic farming, show great potential to meet these demands according to a recent press release of the IFOAM EU Group. >>More

 

France: The Organic Sector Continues to Grow in 2009

(16/07/2010) Recently Agence Bio released the latest (2009) figures on organic agriculture in the country. There has been a major increase in both organic land and domestic sales in 2009. More

 

Slovakia: Strong Growth in Organic Farm Numbers and Good Potential for Processing

(15/07/2010) In the most recent edition of the Avalon Ekoconnect newsletter on organic farming in Central and Eastern Europe, a report on organic farming in Slovakia was published. >>More

 

Call for Papers Announced for 17th IFOAM Organic World Congress 2011

(12/07/2010) In preparation for the first Asian IFOAM (International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements) Organic World Congress, organisers announce a call for papers. The deadline for submission is November 30, 2010. >>More

European research: CORE Organic II call pre-announcement

The transnational partnership CORE Organic published a pre-announcement July 5, 2010, of a common call for CORE Organic II. The call will be launched on September 1, 2010 with a closing date of October 15, 2010. >>More information

Germany: Increase in organic area and operators in 2009

(05/07/2010) The German Ministry of Agriculture recently released the latest (2009) figures on organic agriculture in the country. According to the ministry, 947'115 hectares of organic agricultural land were under organic management in 2009. Germany therefore holds third place in Europe after Spain and Italy for agricultural land under organic management.There were 21'047organic farms constituting 5.6 percent of all farms in the country. >> More information

 

The Netherlands: Increase of organic land and of organic sales in 2009

(21/06/2010) According to Biologica's Bio monitor 2009, the organic area went up to 51'911 hectares in 2009, an increase of about 1500 hectares compared with 2008. The organic agricultural land now accounts for 2.7 percent of the total agricultural area. >>More information

 

Spain: Strong increase of organic land in 2009

(May 26, 2010) Recently the Spanish Ministry of Agriculture MARM released the 2009 data for organic agriculture in the country. According to these figures, there are 1.3 million hectares of organic agricultural land and in addition 0.27 million hectares are wild collection areas. The overall increase of organic land was more than 20 percent. >>More information at Organic-World.net

 

EU logo: Style guide published

(25/05/2010) On March 31, 2010, Commission Regulation No 271/2010 regarding the organic logo was published in the Official Journal of the European Union. >>More

Eastern Europe to Central Asia: UNEP assesses role of sustainable agriculture in boosting exports, livelihoods and jobs
(16/05/2010) The potential to create a booming organic agriculture sector across Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia is the focus of a study announced on April 12, 2010, by the UN Environment Programme UNEP. >>More

Austria: Organic market grows by 5 percent in 2009

(15/05/2010) In 2009 the turnover with organic food in Austria reached 984 million Euros. The domestic market (i.e. total turnover excluding export and catering) was 867.6 million Euros. >>More

European Union: Updated list of inspection bodies and control authorities now available

(May 10, 2010) The European Commission has recently published an updated list of public authorities and approved private inspection bodies. Compliance with the regulation on organic agriculture is supervised by the EU Member States Each EU Member State has designated a number of public authorities and/or approved private inspection bodies to carry out the inspections. >> More information

UK: Soil Association publishes Organic Market Report 2010

(April 28, 2010) The Soil Association has recently published its organic market report for the UK. It predicts a modest market expansion of between 2 percent to 5 percent in the UK market for organic products in 2010. >>More information

 

Estonia: More than ten percent organic agricultural land in 2009

(March 29, 2010). Recently a broshure was published about organic farming in Estonia. It informs extensively about the current situation.
In Estonia, organic land has expanded more than ten times since 2000. In 2009, 102'767 hectares were managed organically - 18 percent more than in 2008. By 2009, the organic land constituted more than ten percent of all agricultural land in use, and there were 1277 organic producers. One of the reasons for this growth is the financial support since the year 2000. >> More information

 

Switzerland: Market grows by seven percent in 2009

(March 24, 2010) On March 23, 2010, the Swiss organic umbrella organisation Bio Suisse presented the 2009 data on organic agriculture. Whereas the market grew in 2009, the number of organic farms and the organic agricultural land decreased. >> More information

 

Call for papers: 9th Congress of the Spanish Society for Organic Farming, in Lleida, Spain

(March 17, 2010) The Spanish Society for Organic Farming SEAE will organise its 9th Scientific Congress on organic farming in Lleida, the agricultural capital of Catalonia, October 6 to 9, 2010, to be held at the University of Lleida (UDL). >>More information

 

New statistics report from Eurostat shows: Organic area up by 21 percent in the EU between 2005 and 2008

(March 3, 2010) According to a new report released by Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union, organic farming in the 27 countries of the European Union covered almost eight million hectares in 2008, up by seven percent compared with 2007. In 2008, the five member states with the largest organic area in the European Union were Spain, Italy, Germany, the United Kingdom and France.

Between 2007 and 2008, the total organic area increased in all member states for which data are available, except Italy (- 13 %). The highest increases were recorded in Spain (+ 33 %), Bulgaria (+ 22 %) and Slovakia (+ 19 %).

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35 Million Hectares of Organic Agricultural Land World-wide

(February 16, 2009) 35 million hectares of agricultural land are certified according to organic standards (data as at the end of 2008). “Compared to the 2007 data, almost three million hectares more were reported,” says Helga Willer of FiBL.“ Growth was strongest in Latin America and Europe.” There are almost 1.4 million organic producers. >> More information