Data & digitalisation

What FiBL is doing on this theme
- Background: Organic Farming Statistics
- Group Statistics Organic farming, Department of Extention, Training & Communication, FiBL Switzerland
News on the theme
- 03/10/2025 : FiBL at the Agricultural Outlook Forum
- 02/11/2025 : Almost 11 percent of agricultural land in the European Union is organically farmed
- 02/11/2025 : Global organic area nears 99 million hectares – organic market back on track
- 02/04/2025 : The State of Sustainable Markets 2024: Statistics and Emerging Trends
- 12/20/2024 : OrganicAdviceNetwork launches its first network activities for advisors in 2025
- 03/19/2024 : SchweinErleben: How wild are domestic pigs?
- 02/13/2024 : Global organic area grows more than ever before
- 02/13/2024 : In 2022, more than 10 percent of the European Union’s farmland was organic
- 02/13/2024 : New edition "The World of Organic Agriculture"
- 01/23/2024 : 25 years of "The World of Organic Agriculture" at Biofach
- 01/12/2024 : The State of Sustainable Markets 2023: Statistics and Emerging Trends
- 07/14/2023 : Survey: What are the benefits of digital tools for farms?
- 02/14/2023 : European organic farmland and market continued to grow in 2021
- 02/14/2023 : Global organic farmland and market continued to grow in 2021
- 02/08/2023 : New Horizon Europe project PATH2DEA successfully launched
- 08/16/2022 : The State of Sustainable Markets 2021: Statistics and Emerging Trends
- 05/31/2022 : IFOAM Organics Europe celebrates anniversary
- 02/15/2022 : German Input list 2022 available
- 02/15/2022 : Exceptional growth of the European organic market 2020 – Organic market reaches 52 billion euros and organic farmland 17 million hectares in 2020
- 02/15/2022 : Global organic market: Unprecedented growth in 2020 – Organic retail sales grew by 14 billion euros and exceeded the 120-billion-euro mark
- 10/21/2021 : Reaching East African farmers with digital training
- 09/29/2021 : The State of Sustainable Markets 2021
- 08/27/2021 : Knowledge for success in organic farming
- 03/23/2021 : New router database connects EU member states' organic seed databases
- 02/17/2021 : European organic market grew to €45 billion in 2019
- 02/17/2021 : Global organic area continues to grow – Over 72.3 million hectares of farmland are organic
- 10/08/2020 : Standards continue to grow as consumers focus on health and sustainability
- 07/02/2020 : Online course on farm video production
- 04/28/2020 : Organic Farm Knowledge - A unique resource with tools for farmers across Europe
- 02/24/2020 : organicXseeds now also available in Denmark
- 02/12/2020 : European organic market grew to 40.7 billion euros in 2018
- 02/12/2020 : Global organic area continues to grow – Over 71.5 million hectares of farmland are organic
- 02/13/2019 : European organic market grew to more than 37 billion euros in 2017
- 02/13/2019 : Global organic area reaches another all-time high – Nearly 70 million hectares of farmland are organic
- 02/14/2018 : European organic market grew by double digits and organic area reached 13.5 million hectares in 2016
- 02/14/2017 : Organic in Europe: Organic market grows by double digits and organic area reaches 12.7 million hectares in 2015
- 02/09/2017 : 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
- 10/31/2016 : International organic market shows a stable growth
- 07/20/2016 : Organic farming and the prospects for stimulating public goods under the Common Agricultural Policy
- 02/15/2016 : 17th edition of "The World of Organic Agriculture" presented at BIOFACH
- 02/10/2016 : Growth continues: 43.7 million hectares of organic agricultural land worldwide
- 02/09/2016 : European organic market continued to grow in 2014
- 05/05/2015 : FiBL report shows organic protein availability and demand
- 02/10/2015 : European organic market continued to grow in 2013
- 02/10/2015 : Growth continues: Global organic market at 72 billion US Dollars with 43 million hectares of organic agricultural land worldwide
- 10/30/2014 : Videos about the OrganicDataNetwork project
- 08/13/2014 : Successful final workshop on the promotion of organic farming at universities in South-East Europe
- 06/10/2014 : OrganicDataNetwork presents results
- 02/26/2014 : New publication: Organic in Europe - Prospects and Developments
- 02/11/2014 : FiBL to present many new facts and figures at BIOFACH 2014
- 02/11/2014 : European organic market continued to grow in 2012
- 10/30/2013 : Fourth workshop of the European project OrganicDataNetwork in Montpellier
- 04/13/2012 : European project OrganicDataNetwork to improve organic market data
- 02/14/2012 : Organic agriculture worldwide: Market growing, agricultural land remains steady
- 01/31/2012 : Organic imports to Germany
- 02/15/2011 : Global organic area: Continued growth
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Status	FiBL	Title	Start	End
ongoing	CH	Non-chemical weed management in medicinal and aromatic plants (COST Action weedingMAPs)	27.09.2024	26.09.2028
ongoing	CH	Label Creator with recipe and nutrition calculator	12.08.2024	31.12.2025
completed	CH	Affordable and eThical TracEability SysTEms to support proDucer-consumer relationships in small and medium supply chains (ATTESTED)	01.04.2024	31.03.2025
ongoing	DE CH	Reaching 25% organic farmland in the EU by stronger and better-connected organic advisors and organic advisory services (OrganicAdviceNetwork)	01.04.2024	31.03.2028
ongoing	CH	Quality Food Trade Program in Ukraine, Phase II (QFTP)	01.07.2023	30.06.2026
ongoing	CH	Turning food waste into sustainable soil improvers for better soil health and improved food systems (Waste4Soil)	01.06.2023	31.05.2027
completed	DE	Optimierung der Kommunikation an die Landwirtschaft – Wissenstransfer zielgerichtet an die Bedürfnisse von Landwirt*innen anpassen	21.04.2023	31.12.2024
ongoing	DE	Nationwide trainee programme for graduates of universities and universities of applied sciences "Organic Farming and Food Management Trainee Program"	01.04.2023	31.12.2026
ongoing	CH	A holistic frameWork with Anticounterfeit and inTelligence-based technologieS that will assist food chain stakehOlders in rapidly identifying and preventing the spread of fraudulent practices (WATSON)	01.03.2023	28.02.2026
completed	CH	Bioinformatics Server for Big Data (BSBD)	01.01.2023	31.12.2024
ongoing	CH EU	Paving the Way towards Digitalisation Enabling Agroecology for European Farming Systems (PATH2DEA)	01.01.2023	31.12.2025
ongoing	CH	A farm-based sustainability assessment and networking platform to accelerate the agroecological transition of the Swiss organic sector (AgriSustaiNet)	01.12.2022	30.11.2026
ongoing	CH DE EU	Organic seed and plant breeding to accelerate sustainable and diverse food systems in Europe (LiveSeeding)	01.10.2022	30.09.2026
ongoing	CH EU	Transformation scenarios for boosting organic farming and organic aquaculture towards the Farm-to-Fork targets (OrganicTargets4EU)	01.09.2022	28.02.2026
completed	DE	Erdbeobachtung und künstliche Intelligenz für das Monitoring im ökologischen Landbau (EOekoland)	01.08.2022	30.06.2025
completed	DE	Development of an online platform and networking point for Hessian nutrition initiatives (SEI-Hessen)	01.08.2022	31.12.2022
completed	CH	Scaling-up Digital Training Materials for Smallholder Farmers in East Africa (Digital Training Materials Phase 2)	01.07.2022	30.06.2025
completed	CH	Accelerating the Organic Market Development in Kenya – PMCA Follow-up Project (PMCA Follow-up)	01.07.2022	30.06.2025
ongoing	CH	Deliberative diets: Connecting producers and consumers to value the sustainability of Swiss food system scenarios (DeliDiets)	01.01.2022	31.12.2025
ongoing	CH	BIOREST - Support for the development of sustainable and resilient organic agriculture in the context of climate change in Tunisia (Biorest)	01.11.2021	31.10.2025
completed	AT	CAP Transfer of Information Via Assessment, Training & Extension (CAPTIVATE)	01.11.2021	01.11.2024
ongoing	CH	Strengthening Global Assessments of Agricultural Sustainability (SustainAG)	01.10.2021	31.12.2025
completed	CH	Statistical basics and data visualisation with the programme R (DatVis)	01.09.2021	31.08.2023
completed	DE	Bundesweites Traineeprogramm für Fachhochschul- und Hochschulabsolventen - Los 2	03.07.2021	31.05.2023
completed	CH	Organic Influencer Marketing - Improving Market Access for Farmers and Strengthening Demand for Organic Products through Social Media in Kenya	01.07.2021	31.12.2023
ongoing	DE	organicXlivestock (DL-TierDB)	15.12.2020
completed	DE	Development of a concept for the coherent and differentiated remuneration of the environmental benefits of organic farming (UGOE)	05.05.2020	31.01.2023
completed	DE	FAIRshare – digitale Werkzeuge für landwirtschaftliche Berater	01.05.2020	31.03.2021
completed	DE	Implementation of a digital, decentralised and participatory network for rural areas. Preparatory feasibility study	24.04.2020	31.03.2021
completed	CH	Conducting of trainings for cotton farmers and selected key stakeholders in the implementation of organic cotton standards in Uzbek cotton production	16.04.2020	31.10.2021
completed	DE	EIT Food II	15.04.2020	31.12.2020
completed	CH	Increasing longevity of Swiss dairy cows: factors, future scenarios and strategy development	01.04.2020	31.03.2025
completed	CH	Knowledge Centre for Organic Agriculture and Agroecology in Africa (KCOA)	01.04.2020	29.02.2024
completed	CH	Regional Knowledge Hub for Organic Agriculture in East Africa: a pilot on transforming farmer access to organic training materials and information through digitalization	01.03.2020	30.06.2022
completed	CH	Training materials and courses for best practices in organic and dynamic Cocoa Agroforestry systems	01.11.2019	30.09.2022
completed	EU	Start-Up Bio (Start-Up Bio)	01.11.2019	31.10.2021
completed	EU CH	Connecting advisers to boost interactive innovation in agriculture and forestry (i2connect)	01.11.2019	31.10.2024
completed	DE	Development of a database for organic animals and for organic juvenile aquaculture animals according to Art. 26 of the EU Regulation 2018/848 (TierDB)	01.09.2019	31.12.2021
completed	DE	Machbarkeitsstudie für ein "Ökozentrum"	05.08.2019	28.03.2020
completed	CH	ARPAF – Study on the production of medicinal and aromatic plants in the Alpine Region and the potential connection to Green Infrastructure	01.07.2019	31.10.2019
completed	CH	Digitisation: Economic and Social Impacts in Rural Areas (DESIRA)	01.06.2019	31.05.2023
completed	CH	Validierung und Weiterentwicklung eines Eiablage Prognosesystems für die Kirschessigfliege in der Nordwestschweiz (SIMKEF-CH)	01.05.2019	01.05.2021
completed	CH	Verbuschung, Problempflanzen und Bewirtschaftungsplanung auf Alpweiden: Weiterentwicklung, Vereinheitlichung und Digitalisierung des Beratungsangebots (DigiPlanAlp)	01.03.2018	28.02.2019
completed	CH	Microbiome diagnostics for a sustainable agriculture (Gebert Rüf Microbiome)	01.03.2018	28.02.2021
completed	CH	Organic Knowledge Network on Monogastric Animal Feed (OK-Net EcoFeed)	01.01.2018	31.03.2021
completed	CH	Use of robots for efficient weed control	01.01.2018	31.12.2021
completed	CH	Networking European Farms to Enhance Cross Fertilisation and Innovation Uptake through Demonstration (NEFERTITI)	01.01.2018	30.09.2022
ongoing	CH	LERNfeld II: Lernen für die Zukunft – Biodiversität und Klimawandel im Kontext der Landwirtschaft	01.12.2017
completed	CH	GenTORE - Genomic management tools to optimize resilience and efficiency (GenTORE)	01.08.2017	31.07.2022
completed	CH	Auswirkungen eines Hochfrequenz Strom Wandlers auf die Umwelt (Unkraut, Bodenbiologie und Fauna) (Zasso Elektroherb)	01.08.2017	31.12.2017
completed	CH	Diversification through Rotation, Intercropping, Multiple Cropping, Promoted by Actors and Value Chains towards Sustainability (DiverIMPACTS)	01.05.2017	30.04.2022
completed	CH	Introduction of "Precision farming" into Swiss organic farming	01.01.2017	31.12.2020
completed	CH	Peer-to-peer Learning: Accessing Innovation through Demonstration (PLAID)	01.01.2017	30.06.2019
completed	CH	Educational Training Initative ESGberater “Climate strategist”: climate change mitigation and adaptation of the German agriculture sector	01.08.2016	01.03.2017
ongoing	CH	FiBL-ZHAW Summer School – Designing Food Value Chains to foster the UN Sustainable Development Goals	01.07.2016	31.12.2026
completed	CH	Combining the 'eye of the stockman' and precision farming techniques to improve pig welfare (PigWatch)	01.03.2016	28.02.2019
completed	CH	Supporting the South East European Organic Network (SEEON) (Organic Farming in SEE)	01.03.2016	30.04.2017
completed	DE	Modellhaftes Demonstrationsnetzwerk zur Ausweitung und Verbesserung des Anbaus und der Verwertung von Leguminosen mit Schwerpunkt Bohnen und Erbsen in Deutschland (DemoNetErBo)	15.01.2016	31.12.2021
ongoing	CH	Website www.agri-biodiv.ch (agri-biodiv)	01.01.2016
completed	DE	Communication about environment for farmers, consumers, youth and representatives of media to the subject “Sustainable agriculture and nutrition”	15.09.2014	15.09.2016
completed	CH	T4SD Global Platform for Market Data on Organic Agriculture and Sustainability Standards (SSIS)	01.06.2014	31.12.2020
completed	CH	Advancement of analysis and data collection methods about organic imported products to Germany using the example of 2011/12 (Bio-Import-Projekt)	01.07.2013	31.03.2014
completed	CH	Productivity and Profitability of Organic and Conventional Farming Systems	01.07.2013	31.12.2019
completed	CH	Sustainability Standards Information System (SSIS)	01.01.2013	31.12.2013
completed	DE	Redaktionelle Tätigkeiten im Rahmen des Internetportals für den Ökologischen Landbau - oekolandbau.de	01.01.2012	31.12.2015
completed	CH	Data network for better European organic market information (OrganicDataNetwork)	01.01.2012	31.12.2014
completed	CH	Improved contribution of local feed to support 100% organic feed supply to pigs and poultry (ICOPP)	01.09.2011	31.12.2014
completed	CH	Global Information System for Organic Market and Production Data II (Global Statistics II)	01.08.2010	31.12.2011
completed	CH	Analysis of imports of organic products with relevance for the German organic market I (Bioimporte)	01.01.2010	31.10.2011
completed	CH	Global Information System for Organic Market and Production Data I (Global Statistics I)	09.09.2008	31.08.2009
ongoing	CH	bioaktuell.ch	01.01.2007
ongoing	CH	Annual Biocontrol Industry Meeting Basel (ABIM)	01.10.2006
ongoing	CH	Rote Listen - ein Instrument des Naturschutzes	01.01.2006
completed	CH	European information system for organic markets (EISfOM)	01.02.2003	31.01.2006
ongoing	CH	Organic Seeds Service (Biosaatgutstelle)	01.01.2003
completed	CH	Betriebswirtschaftliche Analyse ökologisch wirtschaftender Grossbetriebe in Ostdeutschland	01.01.2002	31.12.2004
ongoing	CH	FiBL.org - Website of the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL.org)	01.01.1997
ongoing	CH	OrganicFQH.org - The website of the International Organic FQH Research Association
ongoing	CH	Bio-Net.at - Webangebot des Projekts Bionet
ongoing	CH DE	organicXseeds
ongoing	DE	bioC Directory of Certified Organic Operators

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