For some of the data as published in the 2013 edition of "The World of Organic Agriculture", data revisions have occured. These are listed below.

Tables with updated data since 2005 (please note the revision date, which is always stated).

Dynamic data table
Excel sheets

Revisions by country

Brazil

(March 20, 2013) In the 2013 edition of "The World of Organic Agriculture" a major revision of the area data for Brazil for the previous years (2007-2010) was carried out.

In 2012, the Brazilian government provided for the first time data on certified organic agricultural land, but only for the fully converted area. This new figure (0.7 million hectares) is therefore not directly comparable with the figure for fully converted and in conversion land, that was communicated in previous editions (2009-2012) of “The World of Organic Agriculture”.

The data communicated in the past were from 2007, and they were provided by Organics Brazil, www.organicsbrasil.org. They were based on information of the private certification agencies that are working according to international standards in Brazil. The data included the conversion areas.

For historical comparability, the conversion areas were taken out of the FiBL database as the new figure from the Ministry of Agriculture presented in this book excludes conversion areas. The official ministry figure for the certified organic land is 1.8 million hectares, which includes 1.2 million hectares of wild collection.

Furthermore some FiBL estimates on particulary crops were removed from the FiBL database. These estimates had been based on the land area communicated by Organics Brasil (see above) as well as the data provided in this document:

Instituto de Promoção do Desenvolvimento (IPD) (2010): Perfil do mercado orgânico brasileiro como processo de inclusão social. Curitiba Paraná, Brazil. http://ipd.org.br/upload/tiny_mce/arquivos/Perfil_do_mercado_organico_brasileiro_como_processo_de_inclusao_social.pdf

The data on the organic land area in Brasil can be viewed at the dynamic data table on this website.

World: Revision of the development of the organic land area

(March 22, 2013) The major revision of the data on the organic land in Brazil in teh 2013 edition of "The World of Organic Agriculture" had an impact on the figure for global organic agriculture. For the revised global area see most recent slide presentatations and excel files.

To top