The World of Organic Agriculture 2008

Published by the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM), Bonn, Germany, and Research Institute of Organic Agriculture FiBL, Frick, Switzerland.

The 2008 edition of this annual publication documents recent developments in global organic agriculture. It includes contributions from representatives of the organic sector from throughout the world and provides comprehensive organic farming statistics that cover surface area under organic management, numbers of farms and specific information about commodities and land use in organic systems. The book also contains information on the global market of the burgeoning organic sector, the latest developments in organic certification, standards and regulations, and insights into current status and emerging trends for organic agriculture by continent.

For this edition, all statistical data and regional review chapters have been thoroughly updated. Completely new chapters on organic agriculture in the Pacific, on the International Task Force on Harmonization and Equivalence in Organic Agriculture and on organic aquaculture have been added.

The World of Organic Agriculture 2008 - Earthscan edition

The 2008 edition of 'The World of Organic Agriculture' was also published by Earthscan as a hardcover edition and can be ordered from Earthscan.

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Willer, Helga; Yussefi-Menzler, Minou und Sorensen, Neil, (Hrsg.) (2008) The World of Organic Agriculture - Statistics and Emerging Trends 2008. IFOAM, Bonn and FiBL, Frick

Willer, Helga; Yussefi-Menzler, Minou und Sorensen, Neil, (Hrsg.) (2008) The World of Organic Agriculture - Statistics and Emerging Trends 2008. Earthscan, London

Note: Please cite articles by authors individually.

Full document

The full document is available in the Organic Eprints Archive at orgprints.org/13123/.

Corrigenda and data revisions

Corrigenda. There have been further, minor revisions which are all included in the PDF version, which is available for download.
Data revisions of the data published in the 2008 edition (2006 data)

Power Point Presentations

Current status of organic farming world-wide. presented at the 16th IFOAM Organic World Congress, Modena, Italy, June 18-20, 2008.
The Main Results of the Global Survey on Organic Agriculture 2008, presented at BioFach 2008