International Organic Organizations & Statistics

International Organic Organizations

There are many organizations involved in the promotion, regulation and study of organic agriculture on an international level.  Some of the key international organic organizations are listed below.

• International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM)
• International Centre for Research in Organic Food Systems (ICROFS)
  • Organic Eprints
    
• Organic Research Centre Alliance (ORCA)
  
• Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL)
• International Society of Organic Agriculture Research (ISOFAR)

International Organic Statistics

• 2012 US Census of Agriculture: Characteristics of All Farms and Farms with Organic Sales [PDF - 2.8 MB]
  
  • USDA. 2014
• Another record year for organic agriculture worldwide - 50.9 million hectares of organic agricultural land – organic market grows to more than 80 billion US Dollars
  • FiBL and IFOAM – Organics International. 2017
• Growth Patterns in the U.S. Organic Industry
  
  • USDA Economic Research Service. 2013
• Growth Trends in European Organic Food and Agriculture
  
  • Organic Eprints. 2014
• Organic Agriculture Worldwide 2017: Current Statistics
  • FiBL. 2017
• US Organic Survey Report [PDF - 12.3MB]
  
  • USDA National Agriculture Statistics Service. 2015
• The World of Organic Agriculture
  • FiBL. Updated annually

For information on international organic markets, please see the Organic Markets and Marketing Resource page.