Future of organic farming

Undoubtedly, EU policy developments as well as WTO negotiations will be important factors influencing the future of organic farming. Other relevant factors are listed in Table 4-2. 

Table 4.2 Factors determining the future of organic farming and organic farming policy (Zanoii et ai. 2000)...

Demand for organic food is prohahly the single most important variahle for the future of organic farming. In the current situation, actual demand for organic food does not fully realise its potential for a number of reasons. The crucial obstacle to the full realisation of potential demand is lack of transparency in the market from the viewpoint of the consumer. In most countries, consumers encounter a variety of labels. This is very confusing and also impedes free trade between the countries of the EU. 

Piorr H P (1992), Phytopathological advantages and risks of organic farming systems Future perspectives to improve organic cropping systems , in Altman J, Pesticide-interactions in Crop Production Beneficial and deleterious effects, CRC Press, Cleveland, 461 172. 

Nevertheless the development of a broad spectrum of management routines for specific animal husbandry systems is one of the future challenges of organic farming. A number of examples are proposed by Vaarst (1997). 

Piorr, H.-P. (1993). Phytopathological Advantages and Risks of Organic Farming Systems - Future Perspectives. In Altman, J. (ed) Pesticide Interaction in Crop Production. Beneficial and Deleterious Effects. CRC-Press Boca Raton. 

The values and perceptions of consumers and citizens are the key to the future development of organic farming. We believe that this can only be partly translated by market forces into economic and social reality. The reasons and justifications for policy interventions were discussed in Chapter 3. The next and final chapter addresses the question of how to approach and implement this intervention. 

Zanoli, R., D. Gambelli and D. Vairo (2000). Organic Farming in Europe by 2010 Scenarios for the Future . In Organic Farming in Europe Economics and Policy, Vol. 8, Stuttgart Hohenheim University of Hohenheim. 

In the final chapter of the book we take up the twin task of considering the future of organic food and farming as well as research into it, in the light of much of the discussion that takes place in the chapters we have outlined above. At this point we stop our commentary and allow the authors to represent themselves. 

The Consumer Council s former support for sustainable development is not prominent in Kjeldahl s view of organic farming s role. The Council is involved in a study of consumers future expectations of organic food production in which sustainability plays a major role. The president of the Danish farmers association Dansk Landbrug emphasized ... 

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