The World of Organic Agriculture 2010: Corrigenda

During the session The World of Organic Agriculture 2010 at the BioFach Congress there two questions regarding the Falkland Islands and the French overseas departments.

In this context it should be noted that for the names of countries and areas, FiBL and IFOAM used the the Standard Country and Area Codes Classifications as defined by the United Nations Statistics division.*

In this list, the French overseas departments, which we did not want to include under Europe for the global organic farming statistics, are listed as separate entities in Latin America and Africa, which does however not mean that they are sovereign states.

At the homepage of FAOSTAT, the Statistics Division of the Food and Agriculture Organisation FAO, the countries and areas are referred to as 'individual countries.' (see for instance the crop statistics at the FAOSTAT homepage).

The Statistics Division of the United Nations notes on its homepage, that the designations employed and the presentation of country or area names in the list of the United Nations Statistics Divsion do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Secretariat of the United Nations concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries.

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* With the exception of Turkey all countries are allocated to the same geographical region as in the UN classification.

If not otherwise stated, the term organic refers both to the fully converted land and the land under conversion.

Graphs on the current status on organic farming (countries with the most organic land, highest percentages etc.): Not all graphs include the data year. This is available in the tables in the annex of the book.