Organic farming worldwide
Some data about organic farming worldwide:
- * Note Liechtenstein (with 29 %), Austria (with 13 %) and Switzerland (with 11 percent) shares of agricultural area!
- * Goal for Eagle Rock Wiki: 100 % organic farming worldwide
- * Note also North America, only 0.6 %
In North America, almost 2.2 million hectares are managed organically, representing approximately a 0.6 percent share of the total agricultural area.
Latin America: The highest shares of organic agricultural land are in the Dominican Republic and Uruguay with more than six percent and in Mexico and Argentina with more than two percent.
Oceania: The highest shares of all agricultural land are in Vanuatu (6.1 percent), Samoa (5.5 percent) and the Solomon Islands (3.1 percent).
Europe: The highest percentages are in Liechtenstein (29 percent), Austria (13 percent) and Switzerland (11 percent).
Africa: In Africa, there are almost 900’000 hectares of certified organic agricultural land (end 2007). This constitutes about three percent of the world’s organic agricultural land.
Asia: The total organic area in Asia is nearly 2.9 million hectares. This constitutes nine percent of the world’s organic agricultural land. (No percentages are given).
(Most data seem to be from 2007. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_farming_by_country The Wikipedia article got its information from: www.organic-world.net The data are unfortunately rather incomplete.)
