International Olive Council

Olive oil producers are improving irrigation and seeking new varieties of olives to safeguard production as climate change upends harvests, causing prices of the staple of the Mediterranean diet to soar.

"Climate change is already a reality and we need to adapt to it," according to the executive director of the International Olive Council (IOC) Jaime Lillo.

New world record of 929 international awards at the international Japan Olive Oil Prize 2024

Global production of table olives is expected to increase during the 2021-2022 crop year, according to the latest estimates from the International Olive Council (IOC). However, according to the same data, in Greece the drop in production of table olives this year (2021-2022) is expected to exceed 20%.

Turkey has been reelected as a member of the Executive Council (EC) of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) for two years, the Foreign Ministry said on July 4.           

Turkey should be able to sell its olive oil to European Union markets in a customs-free manner, just like it can do for olives, rather than on inward-processing model, to give a boost to its exports, a leading sector player has said.

Nineteen Greek olive oils ranked amongst the world’s best at this year’s new York International Olive Oi Competition (NYIOOC). Twelve of these were given Gold Award status, marking a record year for Greece and Greek producers at the annual event.

The following chart from the Olive Oil Times documents the best Greek olive oils:

There is something beyond the Mediterranean Sea that bounds the countries sharing its shores: The olive. The olive tree is mentioned from the Torah to the Bible and eventually in the Quran. In the Quran it is mentioned as the "?ecere-i Tayyibe," a beneficial fruitful tree, or functional if it can be described as such.

Local olive oil producers set to cooperate with global groups to work together to promote olive oil consumption and to resolve the common problems of the sector players Facing common challenges, Turkish olive oil producers have decided to join hands with international networks.