Abstract:

The organic agriculture has been booming since about 30 years ago in the world. USA and Canada have both acted as one of the countries developed organic agriculture earliest. This paper introduces the brief situation of production development, policy and laws/regulations, supervision system and research in organic agriculture in USA and Canada. The USA-Canada Organic Equivalency Agreement is introduced and analyzed on the meaningfulness to the international equivalency recognition. This paper indicates the international multiple equivalency recognition will benefit the decrease of technical barrier in commerce, which is significant important to the healthy and orderly development of global organic agriculture.