A unique combination of national laws and regional and international cooperation projects have created the conditions for developing organic agriculture in Albania. A further contribution to our report on organic agriculture in South-eastern Europe.

Organic agriculture is still a small sector in Southeastern Europe. While Croatia is starting to show consistent figures, other countries are definitely lagging behind. A significant factor across the region (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia) has been the speedy growth of the two main ingredients: organic producers and devoted surface. The number of producers, currently fewer than 700, is growing slowly while the devoted surface area for organic farming has grown exponentially to reach 1.7 million hectares. It is worth noting how devoted surface growth has been encouraged by the inclusion of areas devoted to pasture and the harvesting of berries.