speaking organic

With t he yearbook "The World of Organic Agriculture - Statistics and Emerging Trends" the  Research Institute of Organic Agriculture ( FiBL ) and the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements ( IFOAM ) publishes quite a pile of numbers and statistics about " recent developments in global organic agriculture " (1). As the title tells the yearbook claims to discuss a rather comprehensive complex of topics.  I'll give a glimpse into a selection of findings which are most interesting from my point of view.

The Ökobarometer is a representative study carried out on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Consumer Protection  in Germany.  In the assisted telephone survey  1000  german citizens from the age of 14 onwards have been interviewed. Aim is to know more about the consumers attitude toward organic products.  This years study was published in August. I'll give a brief overview about the studies findings.

The Global Soil Week aims to inform about the sustainable management of soils by bringing together stakeholder from all over the world. This years Global Soil Week took place in Berlin from  October  27th to October 31st. My interest is to see if the attention the Global Soil Week created ended with the first of November. Or if soil ist a stable topic of interest. So, as the post-title tells, a look at some twitter statistics it is! For the query I used the Hashtag #soil as well as #GlobalSoilWeek. The Hashtag #GSW is used for the Global Soil Week as well as for some US sports team so I couldn't use this one.