62% of 18-24 year olds consume organic products to protect the environment according to the 18th barometer of consumption and perception of organic products in France carried out by Spirit Insight for theAgence BIO. In addition, eating organic is now anchored in the lifestyle of the majority of French people with 9 out of 10 French people consuming organic products, 13% of whom do so every day. Better still, organic continues to attract and is becoming more popular with 15% of new consumers, among whom young people, employees and workers are over-represented.  

In parallel, the organic market has crossed the threshold of 13 billion and the symbolic threshold of 50,000 organic farmers has also been happily exceeded, which represents almost 12% of French farmers, according to figures recently published by the BIO Agency.

To better understand consumer expectations and market developments, the BIO Agency, the French agency for the promotion and development of organic farming which manages the National Observatory of Organic Farming, will offer a conference on the theme “How the world of tomorrow will be more organic – perception, consumption, production” on Sunday 24 and Tuesday 26 October from 15 p.m. to 16 p.m. on the Natexbio Forum from the Natexpo trade fair 

Find all the figures by sector and by region, as well as the results of the barometer of perception and consumption of organic products on the BIO Agency website:

www.agencebio.org/les-chiffres-cles/

Article written by the BIO Agency team