Organic Food: Consumers’ Choices and Farmers’ Opportunities by Edi Defrancesco, Luca Rossetto (auth.), Maurizio Canavari,

By Edi Defrancesco, Luca Rossetto (auth.), Maurizio Canavari, Kent D. Olson (eds.)

Consumers’ awareness to nutrition issues of safety and environmental concerns has elevated overwhelmingly in fresh many years due to their elevated drawback approximately their very own healthiness, the environment’s health and wellbeing, and the crises and emergencies suggested all over the world. as soon as your best option, natural agriculture has consistently been a construction alternative through no less than a couple of farmers worldwide. those farmers have been brought on via moral and environmental motivations, in addition to through devoted shoppers who supported natural agriculture because of a separate yet rather elitist distribution channel. natural foodstuff now has turn into a plausible replacement for increasingly more shoppers which are apprehensive concerning the presence of chemical compounds residues and the adverse effects at the setting as a result of extensive construction equipment. Many farmers additionally now see natural farming with a purpose to stabilize or perhaps raise their source of revenue because of public coverage help and growing to be marketplace demand.

Organic nutrients: shoppers' offerings and Farmers' Opportunities provides an outline of the natural region, either in Italy and within the usa, and demonstrates how agricultural economists are acting analyses facing natural produce on various issues within the provide chain. It bargains with fiscal concerns raised via natural farming and takes under consideration either the consumer's wishes and the managerial and finances constraints skilled by means of the farmers. additionally farm administration methodologies and advertising analyses are used with particular study themes related to a number of industries within the agri-food sector.

About the Editors:

Maurizio Canavari is an affiliate Professor within the collage of Bologna’s division of Agrarian economic climate and Engineering.

Kent D. Olson is a Professor within the collage of Minnesota’s division of utilized Economics.

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2001). Net returns to both conventional and organic production systems vary with biophysical and economic factors such as soil type, climate, proximity to markets, and other factors that are farm specific, and help explain the wide variation in economic performance within each system. Factors not captured in standard profit calculations— such as convenience, longer-term planning horizons, and environmental ethics—can motivate rational adoption of a particular practice or farming system. Our understanding of the factors influencing net returns to organic farming systems remains imperfect.

4. S. American farmland under organic management has grown steadily for the last decade as farmers strive to meet consumer demand in both local and national markets. S. certified organic crop acreage more than doubled between 1992 and 1997, and has doubled again between 1997 and 2001 for most major crops (Greene and Kremen, 2003). Certified organic pasture and ranchland also doubled between 1997 and 2001, following USDA’s lifting of restrictions on organic meat labeling in the late 1990’s. S. 34 million acres in 2001.

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