The World of Organic Agriculture: Statistics and Emerging Trends 2008

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Helga Willer, Minou Yussefi, Neil Sorensen
Earthscan, 23 sept 2010 - 268 páginas
The new edition of this annual publication (previously published solely by IFOAM and FiBL) 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 from the world's foremost experts.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.Published with IFOAM and FiBL
 

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Foreword Edition 2008
7
Acknowledgements
9
Sponsors
13
Summary
15
Current Statistics
23
Overview
47
The Organics Trade Development Programme OTDP of the International Trade Centre ITC
51
The Global Market for Organic Food Drink
53
The ITF the FAOIFOAMUNCTAD International Task Force on Harmonization and Equivalence in Organic Agriculture
78
Organic Aquaculture
83
AFRICA
89
ASIA
101
EUROPE
117
MEDITERRANEAN REGION
149
LATIN AMERICA
165
NORTH AMERICA
191

Standards and Regulations
59
East African Organic Products Standardand more
71
Number of Organic Certifiers Jumps to 468
73
Accreditation
76
OCEANIAAUSTRALIA
207
ANNEX
233
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