1.9 million certified organic farmers in 164 countries, who cultivate 37.5 million hectares and have a worldwide turnover of $63.8 billion US-dollars: that’s what the organic movement achieved by 2012. Almost a third of all organically managed land is found in Oceania (32%; 12.2m ha), followed by Europe (30%; 11.2m ha) and Latin America (18%; 6.8m ha). Australia continues to be the country with the biggest area of organic land (12m ha, of which an estimated 97% consists of extensive grassland), followed by Argentina (3.6m ha) and the United States of America (2.2m ha). The countries with the highest proportion of organically managed land are the Falkland Islands with 36.3%, followed by Liechtenstein (29.6%) and Austria (19.7%) and some other countries in Europe. In ten countries, more than 10% of all agricultural land is farmed organically. organic-market.info/web/Europe/Switzerland/organic_farmers/220/242/0/16550.html
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