scholarly journals ORGANIC FARMING AS THE KEY FOR EUROPEAN RURAL DEVELOPMENT

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (03) ◽  
pp. 171-174
Author(s):  
Inna Aleksandrovna Akhnovskaya ◽  
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Olga Vladimirovna Glushich ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Rural Development ◽  
Organic Farming

scholarly journals AS NOVAS ALTERNATIVAS RURAIS NA QUARTA COLÔNIA, RS, Brasil: um estudo sobre a agricultura de base agroecológica e a agricultura orgânica

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (9) ◽  
pp. 175
Author(s):  
Vanessa Manfio ◽  
Vinício Luís Pierozan
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Rural Development ◽  
Organic Farming ◽  
Organic Agriculture ◽  
Agricultural Practices ◽  
Rio Grande ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Rio Grande Do Sul ◽  
Data Collection And Analysis

THE NEW RURAL ALTERNATIVES IN QUARTA COLÔNIA, RS, Brazil: a study on the agroecological and organic agricultureLAS NUEVAS ALTERNATIVAS RURALES EN LA QUARTA COLONIA, RS, Brasil: un estudio acerca de la agricultura de base agroecológica y la agricultura orgánicaNeste artigo, foram discutidos os resultados referentes ao estudo de práticas agrícolas, de base agroecológica e orgânica de mercado, realizado nos municípios de Dona Francisca, Agudo e Nova Palma, pertencentes à Quarta Colônia - região localizada no centro do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul. Este trabalho tem como objetivo central a análise a respeito da produção de alimentos orgânicos e agroecológicos na região, utilizando a abordagem qualitativa para o direcionamento da coleta de dados e da análise dos resultados. O artigo encontra-se estruturado em duas partes. A primeira é composta pela revisão de literatura, em que apresentamos e desenvolvemos os conceitos de agricultura agroecológica, ecológica e orgânica. A segunda parte aborda experiências de agricultura de base agroecológica e orgânica. Ambas as discussões levarão à construção das considerações finais, destacando as suas particularidades em relação ao desenvolvimento rural em âmbito local/regional.Palavras-chave: Agricultura de Base Agroecológica; Agricultura Orgânica; Quarta Colônia.ABSTRACTIn this paper will be discussed the outcomes from the study of agroecological and organic market agricultural practices conducted in the counties of Dona Francisca, Agudo and Nova Palma, belonging to Quarta Colônia – a region located in the center of the Rio Grande do Sul state in Brazil. The main goal of this work is to analyze the production of organic and agroecological foods in this region, using the qualitative approach to guide the data collection and analysis of the results. The paper is structured in two parts. The first one is composed by the literature review, in which we present and develop the concepts of agroecological, ecological and organic agriculture. The second part addresses the agroecological and organic farming experiences. Both discussions will lead to the disclosure of the final considerations, highlighting their particularities regarding to the rural development at the local / regional level.Keywords: Agroecological Based Agriculture; Organic Agriculture; Quarta Colônia. RESUMENEn este artículo, serán discutidos los resultados en que se refiere al estudio de prácticas agrícolas de base agroecológica y orgánica de mercado, realizado en los municipios de Dona Francisca, Agudo e Nova Palma, pertenecientes a la Quarta Colônia – región ubicada en el centro del Estado de Rio Grande do Sul, en Brasil. Este trabajo tiene como objetivo central el análisis acerca de la producción de alimentos orgánicos y agroecológicos en la región, utilizando el abordaje cualitativo para el direccionamiento de la recolección de datos y del análisis de los resultados. El artículo se estructura en dos partes. La primera está compuesta por la revisión de literatura, en la que presentamos y desarrollamos los conceptos de agricultura agroecológica, ecológica y orgánica. La segunda parte aborda experiencias de agricultura de base agroecológica y orgánica. Ambas discusiones llevarán a la construcción de las consideraciones finales, destacando sus particularidades en relación al desarrollo rural a nivel local / regional.Palabras clave: Agricultura de Base Agroecológica; Agricultura Orgánica; Quarta Colônia.

‘Messers, Visionaries and Organobureaucrats’: Dilemmas of Institutionalisation in the Irish Organic Farming Movement

1999 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hilary Tovey
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Rural Development ◽  
Organic Farming ◽  
State Policy ◽  
Food Industry ◽  
Severe Damage ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Irish Case ◽  
Alternative Social Movements ◽  
Developed World

This paper asks what happens to ‘alternative’ social movements like the Irish organic farming movement, which try to promote sustainable forms of rural development, when they begin to be incorporated into state policy for farming and the countryside. Does this provide a context in which farming and the food industry can begin to be ‘restructured from below’, or does it lead instead to ‘deradicalisation’ of the movement and its ideas? The European literature on ‘new’ or alternative social movements has focused more on mobilisation of such movements than on processes of institutionalisation and their effects. Yet institutionalisation is often experienced by movement members themselves as a critical, even highly divisive development, which can result in severe damage to the movement's core ideology and values. The Irish case discussed here is a starting point from which we may develop a more general understanding of the increasing institutionalisation of environmentalism in the contemporary developed world.

scholarly journals Neo-Endogenous Rural Development in Favor of Organic Farming: Two Case Studies from Italian Fragile Areas

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angelo Belliggiano ◽  
Alberto Sturla ◽  
Marco Vassallo ◽  
Laura Viganò
Keyword(s):  
Rural Development ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Organic Farming ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Economic Diversification ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Distinct Partition ◽  
Planning Strategies ◽  
Italian Apennines ◽  
The One

AbstractThis paper analyses two case studies ascribable to neo-endogenous paradigm for rural development experimented by two small municipalities in Northern (Varese Ligure) and Central-southern (Castel del Giudice) Italian Apennines. By means of different approaches, the two towns have been able to provide local development through organic farming that in turn have boosted economic diversification or new forms of territorial aggregation. They have drawn the attention to the neighbouring communities and have stimulated emulation processes. Through a multivariate analysis this study therefore gets to a distinct partition of the two regional territories (NUTS2), where the cases belong, identifying the municipalities that show greater affinity to the cases in question, in order to offer to policy makers useful elements either for encouraging the replication of best practices or including them in future planning strategies. However, while the cluster that includes Varese Ligure (in Northern Italy) appears more clearly influenced by environmental values and a certain demographic resilience, the one to which Castel del Giudice belongs (in the Center-South) is more influenced by the aging of the population and by a greater structural dependency. Both clusters, however, could find a common way of development centred on the economic potential offered by organic farming due to the affinity shown by the proposed case studies.

scholarly journals Territorial Analysis of the European Rural Development Funds (ERDF) as a Driving Factor of Ecological Agricultural Production

Agriculture ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 964
Author(s):  
Marcos Ferasso ◽  
Miguel Blanco ◽  
Lydia Bares
Keyword(s):  
Rural Development ◽  
Organic Farming ◽  
Growth Model ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Dynamic Balance ◽  
Regional Level ◽  
Driving Factor ◽  
The Common ◽  
Territorial Analysis ◽  
Constant Shift

The Europe 2030 project identified the need to create a growth model that is based on a dynamic balance between economic, social, and environmental dimensions. This involves, among other objectives, redirecting the resources that are allocated to the Common Agricultural Plan (CAP) toward more ecological agriculture and livestock. In recent decades, two packages of the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) approved funds for projects related to agriculture. This study carried out a regional evaluation of the effects on production and employment that were generated in the Spanish organic farming sector. For this, a methodology that is frequently used by researchers to analyze territorial differences was used, namely, the shift-share analysis. The main results showed important differences at the regional level in the production of crops. Likewise, constant shift and constant share analyses were used to forecast the evolution of the sector from the recent data. Pending the approval of the new EAFRD 2021–2030, the results obtained in this research allowed for the identification of the regions that showed a favorable evolution to change the agricultural model and to identify the projects that generated employment and ecological production in the sector.

scholarly journals Organic Farming Support Policy in a Sustainable Development Context: A Polish Case Study

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (14) ◽  
pp. 4208
Author(s):  
Władysława Łuczka ◽  
Sławomir Kalinowski ◽  
Nadiia Shmygol
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Rural Development ◽  
Organic Farming ◽  
Development Programme ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Private Goods ◽  
Rural Development Programme ◽  
Environmental Public Goods ◽  
Development Context ◽  
Support Policy

This paper assesses the extent, scope and importance of financial support for Polish organic farming from 2004 to 2019. The analysis focuses particularly on how the changes in the amount and structure of organic farming payments affected farmers’ interest in specific organic crops during three financing periods: the 2004–2006 Rural Development Plan, the 2007–2013 Rural Development Programme (RDP) and the 2014–2020 Rural Development Programme. This paper aims to answer the question of whether and to what extent the organic farming support policy impacted the development trends followed by, and transformation processes affecting, this sector. It follows from this analysis that in the first decade after joining the European Union, Poland implemented a policy of making payments easily available. It was primarily focused on the quantitative growth of organic farming rather than on stimulating supply. As the payments were easily accessible and decoupled from production, subsidy-oriented farmers were additionally encouraged to seek political rent. This resulted in the instability of a large group of farms who discontinued their organic farming activity in 2014. That year, the policy was amended because of the need to improve the allocation efficiency of subsidies and to couple them with the provision not only of environmental public goods but also of private goods in the form of organic farming products. The current support policy opens up greater opportunities for leveraging the potential of organic farming while reaping environmental and socioeconomic benefits and contributing more than ever to sustainable development.

scholarly journals Assessment of Factors Constraining Organic Farming Expansion in Lis Valley, Portugal

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susana Ferreira ◽  
Fátima Oliveira ◽  
Francisco Gomes da Silva ◽  
Margarida Teixeira ◽  
Madalena Gonçalves ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Rural Development ◽  
Organic Farming ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Market Access ◽  
Crop Protection ◽  
Productive Efficiency ◽  
Irrigation District ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Family Farming ◽  
Wide Range

Organic farming can play an important role in rural development and food production, by reinforcing the trend toward sustainable agriculture and its purpose of ecosystem conservation. The agribusiness of organic farming is particularly relevant in family farming, given the labor availability and the short marketing circuits. The innovative techniques of organic farming, namely with soil fertility, weed and pest control, opens a wide range of possibilities in its development and extension. The expectation of organic farming profitability in small-scale family farming, supported by known successful examples, were the theme of a field study on Lis Valley Irrigation District to assess the constraints to its expansion in order to outline the procedures for the acquisition of technical knowledge, the adaptation of technologies, the support for the conversion of production models, and the specialized training of farmers for action. Results revealed that the: (i) farmer’s land structure, (ii) their mature age, (iii) low education level, and (iv) markets, are the main constrains for organic farming development. Furthermore, other uncertainties were identified, namely: (i) the certification process, (ii) the knowledge of new technologies, especially of crop protection, and (iii) the marketing problems to guaranteeing profitability. This study concludes that organic farming has significant potential for development in the Lis Valley and that the efforts and resources of the various stakeholders, namely the state, need to be harmonized to deliver effective support to farmers to promote organic farming that prioritizes: (i) rural development policies, (ii) supporting land restructuring, (iii) modernization of irrigation, (iv) stimulation of young farmers, (v) conversion and implementation of innovative technologies, (vi) the organization of farmers for better productive efficiency, and (vii) to facilitate market access.

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