What makes organic agriculture move: protest, meaning or market? A polyocular approach to the dynamics and governance of organic agriculture
DOI: 10.1504/IJARGE.2008.016976 | Hugo Fjelsted Alroe, Egon Noe | Many different actors have hopes and aspirations for the future of organic agriculture. They have different perspectives on organic agriculture with different understandings of what it is and what makes it move. Each perspective entails a c... | 5 - 22 |
Goals and standards in Swedish organic farming: trading off between desirables
DOI: 10.1504/IJARGE.2008.016976 | Rebecka Milestad, Maria Wivstad, Vonne Lund, Ulrika Geber | Organic farming is an explicitly value-based movement working towards a set of goals. The standards of organic farming serve the purpose of telling organic producers what they need to do, to be certified organic, but they are also as a mean... | 23 - 39 |
Organic policy in Austria: greening and greenwashing
DOI: 10.1504/IJARGE.2008.016976 | Markus Schermer | Within the EU Austria is in the vanguard of the development of organic farming, with more than 10% of farms and land under organic management. Austria therefore provides an excellent example of what happens when organic production becom... | 40 - 50 |
Policy instruments in support of organic farming in Austria
DOI: 10.1504/IJARGE.2008.016976 | Norbert Gleirscher | This paper explores the connection between agricultural policy measures and the development of organic farming in Austria from 1991 onwards. First, past policy measures are reviewed. Then, various new policy strategies for the further devel... | 51 - 62 |
Values of organic producers converting at different times: results of a focus group study in five European countries
DOI: 10.1504/IJARGE.2008.016976 | Susanne Padel | This paper presents the results of a focus group study of the values of organic producers entering the sector at different times in Austria, Italy, the Netherlands, the UK and Switzerland. As well as expressing values widely associated with... | 63 - 77 |
Factors influencing the conversion to organic farming in Norway
DOI: 10.1504/IJARGE.2008.016976 | Matthias Koesling, Ola Flaten, Gudbrand Lien | Determinants of the decision to convert to organic farming methods are examined by applying bivariate analyses and a multinomial logit model to a survey of 1018 Norwegian crop and dairy farmers. The results show that 4% of the conventio... | 78 - 95 |
Patterns of resource use on Danish organic farms: aspects of farm-based rural development
DOI: 10.1504/IJARGE.2008.016976 | Pia Frederiksen, Vibeke Langer | The diversity in the Danish organic farming sector in terms of patterns of human resource use is investigated. Based on the total time allocated to agricultural activities almost half the organic farms are full-time farms, one third part-ti... | 96 - 109 |
The organic food market in Portugal: contested meanings, competing conventions
DOI: 10.1504/IJARGE.2008.016976 | Monica Truninger | The European Union regulatory framework on organic farming gave a new impulse to the institutionalisation of the Portuguese organic farming movement. This paper offers an analytical account based on interviews with key market and institutio... | 110 - 125 |
Looking for alternatives: the construction of the organic beef chain in Mugello, Tuscany
DOI: 10.1504/IJARGE.2008.016976 | Gianluca Brunori, Raffaella Cerruti, Stefania Medeot, Adanella Rossi | There is a growing consensus that organic farming is undergoing critical changes as it is integrated into food chains. A situation of |deadly embrace| between organic and retail chains can be observed and explained by the appropriation of b... | 126 - 143 |
How embedded are organic fresh fruit and vegetables at Irish farmers| markets and what does the answer say about the organic movement? An exploration, using three models
DOI: 10.1504/IJARGE.2008.016976 | Oliver Moore | This article is about the responses the organic movement makes to various pressures on the alterity of farmers| markets (FMs) in Ireland. These pressures are the increasing distance food travels to the FM, availablity of processed foods, di... | 144 - 157 |
Ecocertification, differentiation in retailing and upstream market power
DOI: 10.1504/IJARGE.2008.016976 | Lisette Ibanez, Jacques Laye | The purpose of ecocertification in the forest sector is to guarantee a sustainable management of the forest resources by the producers (forest owners) and define production rules for the transformation industry. We propose an analysis of th... | 158 - 173 |
Bottling water, greening farmers: the socio-technical and managerial construction of a |dispositif| for underground water quality protection
DOI: 10.1504/IJARGE.2008.016976 | Marc Barbier | This paper proposes the description and analysis of the dynamics of an innovation process, which, over ten years ago, enabled a mineral water company to start protecting its underground water and to overcome a classical negative externality... | 174 - 197 |
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