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At a glanceMay 2015Infographic
EPRS | European Parliamentary Research ServiceAuthors: Giulio Sabbati and Ivana KatsarovaMembers’ Research ServicePE 554.199
Organic food
Why Europeans buy
I’m concerned about the environment: 87%I want GMO-free products: 86%I avoid food containing pesticides: 85%I want seasonal & local products: 80%Organic farming is more sustainable: 80%
Where Europeans buy
0,0 0,2 0,4 0,6 0,8 1,0
Other
On the internet
From a farmer cooperative
Organic baskets from an association
On a local market
From organic farmers
In supermarkets
In specialised shopsIn specialised shopsIn supermarkets
From organic farmersAt a local marketOrganic baskets
From a farmers’ cooperativeOn the internet
Other
67%65%
54%43%
21%12%
7%4%
Yes NoEU consumption per capita: €43.8
Denmark: €163
Luxembourg: €157
Austria: €127
Sweden: €106
Germany: €93
Retail sales in the EU: €22.2 billion
Germany: €7.6
France: €4.4UK: €2.1
Italy: €2.0Austria: €1.1
Other Member States: €5.1
EU sales growth
5,000000
11,666667
18,333333
25,000000
20132012201120102009200820072006200520042004 201310.2
22.2
billion euros
1 32
Italy45 969Spain
30 502 Poland25 944
No of EU producers: 258 773
10.2 million hectares (5.7% of total agricultural land)
EU organic agricultural land
6.1%
3.6%
4.4%3.4%
1.1%
15.8%
14.9%
5.8%
5.5%
4.6%
13.1%18.6%
8.9%2.4%
8.6%
2.1%
0.8%
11.1%
3.4%
7.3%
2.7%
0.3%
2.4%
10.6%
8.7%
7.5%
8.6%2.6%
Over 10%
From 6% to 10%
From 3% to 5.9%
From 1% to 2.9%
Less than 1%
Share of organic agricultural land(2012)
Organic producers and consumersMost producersIndia: 650 000
Uganda: 189 610
Mexico: 169 703
Tanzania: 148 610
Ethiopia: 134 626
Biggest consumersUSA: €24.3 billion
Germany: €7.6 billion
France: €4.4 billion
China: €2.4 billion
Canada: €2.4 billion
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Organic production is an overall system of farm management and food production that aims at sustainable agriculture, high-quality products and the use of process-es that do not harm the environment, human, plant or animal health and welfare. Globally, 43.1 million hectares of agricultural land was under organic production in 2013, six million more than the year before. With 10.2 million hectares, the Eu-ropean Union (EU) accounts for 24% of the world’s organic land. There are almost 2 million organic producers in the world, mostly in Asia (36%), Africa (29%) and Latin America (16%). The EU represents 13% of this total.The infographic first shows the production and consumption of organic food in the world. It then focuses on the EU figures for organic agricultural land, produc-ers, sales and consumption. The last part describes the places where Europeans buy organic food and the reasons they choose to do so. Unless otherwise report-ed, data in this infographic are based on ‘The world of organic agriculture 2015’ - the largest global data collection on organics published by the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL) in collaboration with the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM - Organics International) and other part-ners. Data are collected and published annually.
Organic producers and consumers
The map shows the top five countries in terms of number of producers of (red) and consumer spending on (green) organic food. The number of producers needs to be treated with cau-tion as it may be calculated in different ways by different coun-tries. It can refer to the number of companies or projects, or to groups which may comprise individual producers. Some coun-tries do not provide data at all. Some include collections, while others report the number of producers per crop which may im-ply an overlap for those who grow several crops.
EU organic agricultural land
The map shows the share of land, in percentage, under organic farming out of the total utilised agricultural land. The source of the data is Eurostat.
Where Europeans buy Data for the bar chart come from a report stemming from a public consultation on organic agriculture conducted by the Eu-ropean Commission Directorate-General for Agriculture and Ru-ral Development. The survey was carried out via an anonymous questionnaire with closed questions, which received more than 45 000 replies from all over the EU. However, as noted in the report, the whole sample cannot be considered a statistical ex-ample, since, for instance, it was not geographically balanced. Within the survey, respondents were asked: ‘Where do you buy organic food?’ They could choose as many options as they wished from a list of eight possibilities. Therefore the sum of each of the options does not add up to 100%. Each of the op-tions has been represented in the chart as ‘yes’ if the respond-ents chose that answer, and ‘no’ if they did not. So, for exam-ple, 67% of respondents said that they buy in specialised shops, while 33% did not choose this option.
Why Europeans buy Data in this section are based on the same report of the Europe-an Commission. Participants were asked to complete the phrase ‘I consume organic products because...’ and could choose multi-ple reasons from a variety of 11 options. The box shows the top five options chosen by respondents. As in the previous graph, it should be read that 87% of the respondents mentioned concern for the environment, while 13% did not.
If you are interested in learning more, read our briefing on Organic food.
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