Scottish salmon farmers who had switched from conventional to organic fish farmers’ risk management strategies offer little …

paper is to disentangle the value consumers place on two prominent food claims, organic and local (defined as Colorado Proud … that of “organic” in apples. However, the difference in results between the experiments that offered participants either …

interest in transforming Dominica into an Organic Island (‘Organic Dominica') by 2015. Through this initiative, sustainable …, organic agricultural production methods will be encouraged. Complementing this, a ‘Buy Organic, Locally Grown' campaign has …, ‘Organic Dominica' has the potential to simultaneously address ongoing national concerns surrounding food security, foreign …

This paper investigates the prevalence of slotting fees in organic packaged and prepared products, and identifies the … percent of surveyed retailers accept slotting fees for organic packaged and prepared products. Previous literature on slotting … that the magnitude of slotting fees for organic products, relative to their non-organic counterparts, depends on a number …

preference valuation of CSA attributes, including the willingness to pay for competing organic certification programs. Using data … approximately 9% for organic branding compared to natural, which translates into an additional $48 per summer season share. We also …

This paper investigates the certified organic handler sector, a specialized component of the middle part of the farm …

Organic foods now occupy prominent shelf space in the produce and dairy aisles of most mainstream U.S. food retailers …. The marketing boom has pushed retail sales of organic foods up to $21.1 billion in 2008 from $3.6 billion in 1997. U ….S. organic-industry growth is evident in an expanding number of retailers selling a wider variety of foods, the development of …

Organic milk production has been one of the fastest growing segments of organic agriculture in the United States in … recent years. Despite the growing number of organic dairy operations, the characteristics of organic dairy operations and the … relative costs of organic and conventional milk production have been difficult to analyze. This study, using 2005 ARMS data for …

Discriminant analysis was used to identify the characteristics that distinguish between fully-certified organic …, partially-certified organic and non-organic farmers in Umbumbulu district, KwaZulu-Natal (KZN), South Africa (SA) during October …’ Organisation (EFO), and by random sampling 49 non-organic farmers in wards neighbouring EFO. Results from the two estimated …