Recommendation & publications

In the course of EISfOM comprehensive data from 32 European countries were collected and analyzed.

The data have on several occasions been presented and discussed with policy makers, farmers, processors, wholesalers and other actors involved in organic markets. This includes seminars organised and held by EISfOM, but also at international meetings such as the European Joint Organic Congress.

The worked up data and the resulting recommendations have been published by EISfOM partners.

Key publications are to be found below, while an overview of all publications published under the auspice of EISfOM can be found via Organic Eprints.

Database on organic and conventional data

As part of the EISfOM project a database with both organic and conventional data has been established at the German Central Market and Price Report Office (ZMP).

Among others, the database enables download of production data per country with a comparison organic-conventional and organic data as well as country comparison.

View the database

Key EISfOM publications

Synthesis and final recommendations on the development of a European Information System for Organic Markets (2006)

Edited by Markus Rippin, Susanne Vitulano, Raffaele Zanoli and Nicolas Lampkin. European Information System for Organic Markets / Zentrale Markt- und Preisberichtstelle, Bonn, Germany.

Classification List for Land Use and Livestock Data (2006)

By Markus Rippin, Zentrale Markt- und Preisberichtstelle für Erzeugnisse der Land-, Forst- und Ernährungswirtschaft GmbH, Bonn, Germany.

Towards a European Framework for Organic Market Information. Proceedings of the Second EISfOM European Seminar, Brussels, November 10 & 11, 2005 (2006)

Edited by Markus Rippin, Helga Willer, Nicolas Lampkin and Alison Vaughan. European Information System for Organic Markets / Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL), Frick, Switzerland

Report on the evaluation of the pilot case studies including national working papers on pilot applications (DCPS) in eight European countries (2005)

By Norbert Gleirscher, Markus Schermer, Marta Wroblewska and Sylwia Zakowska-Biemans. European Information System for Organic Markets /University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

Report on proposals for the development, harmonisation and quality assurance of organic data collection and processing systems (DCPS) (2004)

By Guido Recke, Ulrich Hamm, Nicolas Lampkin, Raffaele Zanoli, Susanna Vitulano and Santiago Olmos. European Information System for Organic Markets / University of Kassel - Agricultural and Food Marketing, Germany

Development of a European Information System for Organic Markets - Improving the Scope and Quality of Statistical Data. Proceedings of the 1st EISfOM European Seminar, held in Berlin, Germany, 26-27 April 2004 (2004)

Edited by Guido Recke, Helga Willer, Nicolas Lampkin, Alison Vaughan. European Information System for Organic Markets / Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL), Switzerland

European Information System for Organic Markets: "Data collection and processing systems (DCPS) for the conventional markets" and "Data collection and processing systems for organic markets". Includes Country Reports on Data Collection and Processing Systems (DCPS) in 32 European Countries (2004)

By Sjaak Wolfert, Klaas Jan Kramer, Toralf Richter, Gabriele Hempfling, Susanne Lux und Guido Recke. European Information System for Organic Markets / Agricultural Economics Research Institute (LEI), Wageningen, The Netherlands, Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL), Frick, Switzerland

More EISfOM publications are available at the open access internet archive Organic Eprints