Experiences with 9 years of global data collection Helga Willer, FiBL

Programme pm Introduction Lukas Kilcher, FiBL. Frick, Switzerland pm Introduction: Experiences with 9 years of global data collection Helga Willer, FiBL pm Collection of the African data: Experiences of the 2008 survey Hervé Bouagnimbeck, IFOAM pm Data based on information from operators: Opportunities and challenges Munshimbwe Chitalu, Organic Producers and Processors Association of Zambia (OPPAZ), Coordinator/Chief Executive Officer pm Data based on information from inspection bodies: Opportunities and challenges Anne Macey, Canadian Organic Growers pm Options for increased cooperation with inspection/certification bodies Michel Reynaud, Ecocert Discussion

The World of Organic Agriculture

2000: First survey by SOEL, Data from 40 countries: Land area and number of farms, share of total agricultural land, supported by BioFach (until today) 2006: 117 countries, land use details, database buil; Continual work on historical data and corrections 2008: 135 countries: Large increase of countries because more data from Africa and from Oceania / Pacific Islands were made available, Support from SECO and ITC

Information currently available, future ? Currently available Totals by country and continent global Shares by country Farms Land use by country Crop information

Global Organic Farming million hectares of agricultural land are managed organically 12.3 million hectares are in Australia Almost 30 % of the agricultural land in Liechtenstein are organic During 2006: Growth in all continents

Development of organic farming in the continents (2007:provisional)

Organic and in-conversion land area: The 10 leading countries Source: FiBL Survey, June 2008

Use of organic/in-conversion land world- wide 2006

Coffee

How do we collect the data Originally all kinds of sources were used. 2008: Either experts from the country (government or private), or official organic farming statistics (USDA, Eurostat) If no country experts are available we try to get the data from the certifiers ourselves: But: we do not have an overview which certifiers are active in the country, so these are uncomplete data

Situation by continent: Africa Most African countries do not have government support for data collection; exception: Tunisia and Ruanda In some countries the private sector provides good data (e.g East African countries) In many countries data availability remains a problem

Asia In some countries the government collects and provides the data: India, China, Israel In many countries data are collected by the private sector from the inspection bodies, often with good results: Indonesia, Nepal, Bhutan In many countries, data collection remains problematic

Europe In most countries of the European Union the data are provided by the private sector or the governments and the data are regularly published on the web (land use, sometimes production, sometimes market data) Additionally Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union, publishes the land use & animal data at its homepage In the countries outside the EU data are mostly provided by the private sector

South America In most South American countries the data are now provided by the goverments: Land use, production, export values In some countries data availability remains a problem, e.g. Venezuela

Central America and Caribbean Data are often collected by private bodies, often in the framework of development cooperation projects; the problem is often the continuity of data supply/suppliers

North America USA: Data collected by USDA, with good land use data. But: The data are released only every 2 years Canada: Data collected by Canadian Organic Growers – not always easy

Oceania Australia: Land area and farms available from Aquis, but no land use details New Zealand, good on export volumes, land use details difficult Pacific Islands: Area and operators available

Data availability by continent and data type ContinentLand area /farmsCrop/crop group details, share of organic area Production Africa55 %53.4 %X Asia61 %6.2 %x Europe93 %86.6 %x North America100 %81.5 %? Latin America70 %54.2 %x Oceania61 %0.5 %?

In 2006 land use / crop data were collected for the first time At that time a classifcation system was developed according to the data received, inspired by the Eurostat classification and the FAO system Major revision now in cooperation with the ZMP, German market data collection body Important for international classification or any classification: Do not aggregate data but provide lowest possible level. Outlook: Develop a classification system for processed foods/final products in order to process data on volumes and market values Classification of land use data

Outlook Improve cooperation and information exchange with data suppliers Develop classification system further, particularly for processed/final products Improve database, make data better accessible via the internet and other channels Expand scope of data collected Full organic – in conversion status Production data, i.e. volumes Exports / imports; volumes, values Market values of crops

Argentina: SENASA

Belgium: Bioforum Vlaanderen

Bio-Markt: Anteile wertmässig per 2007

Bulgaria: Bioselena

Peru:Promperu

Switzerland: Bioinspecta

Individual farm data