European organic market reached €54 billion in 2021
Increasing by almost 4 percent, the European organic market reached another high in 2021: 54.5 billion euros. Organic farmland expanded by almost 0.8 million...
Organic retail sales reached almost €125 billion and organic farmland grew...
Organic farmland and retail sales both continued to show growth worldwide, according to data from 191 countries (data as of the end of 2021)....
EU organic movement warns against greenwashing
IFOAM Organics Europe warns against the misuse of claims, labels, or communication initiatives about food products, that contribute to greenwashing and hinder the agroecological transition...
Visionary and resilient into the future
At the first digital salon at BIOFACH and VIVANESS, Tina Andres, Chair of the Bund Ökologische Lebensmittelwirtschaft (German Federation of the Organic Food Industry,...
Rising resistance against patents on seeds and agricultural food products in...
Last November, the European Patent Office (EPO) reaffirmed a patent on beer and barley derived from traditional breeding granted to the breweries Carlsberg and...
How should organic respond in a ‘permacrisis’?
In December the BBC reported that the Collins English Dictionary’s Word of Year 2022 was permacrisis, meaning "an extended period of instability and insecurity,...
Steffen Reese: «For organic to persist and thrive, we need political,...
2022 has not only been a year of escalating crises around the world, but also the year that saw the Naturland association celebrate its...
Organics in international development cooperation
The holistic concept of organic presents solutions for many current challenges and contributes to the SDGs. That makes it interesting for international development cooperation....
Organic in France – A general outlook from Natexbio
The benefits of organic production for the environment and people’s health deserve higher awareness and recognition. Organic production appeals to new farmers because it...
BIOFACH & VIVANESS 2023: doing business, protecting resources, growing up for...
BIOFACH, the World’s Leading Trade Fair for Organic Food and VIVANESS, the International Trade Fair for Natural and Organic Personal Care, returns to its...
Win-win: Using organic potential from developing countries
Since 2012, Import Promotion Desk (IPD) has been connecting importers with new business partners from developing and emerging countries. For producers of natural ingredients,...
Much room for improvement in supermarket sustainability
A transformation of the food system is urgently needed in order not to exceed the Earth’s carrying capacity, and supermarkets are important partners if...

































