the world of organic agriculture - Organic Eprints

6 Crop Statistics and Information on four Main Crops
6.1.4 Permanent Grassland by Continent
On a global level, permanent Grassland accounts for almost two thirds of the organic agricultural
land for which information was available. The organic permanent pastures covered by this
surveyare distributed more or less evenly over the continents Latin America, Europe and Asia.
No land use information was available for Australia, but it may be assumed that a major part of
Australia’s organic land is grassland.
Graph 10: Permanent pasture by continent
Source: FiBL-Survey 2005/ 2006
Please note: information on land use, crop categories and crops was not available for all countries.
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