Poland has favourable natural conditions for development of organic farming. Poland’s Accession to the European Union creates possibility to take advantage of the natural conditions for organic farming development by implementing the assistance programmes addressed to farmers. According to...

This study employs a choice experiment approach to investigate consumers’ preferences and willingness-to-pay (WTP) for organic food products. We use mixed logit and latent class models to examine preference heterogeneity. The results revealed significant heterogeneity in preferences for...

The strategy for rural development provides a differentiated approach to each type of rural areas. Particularly "sensitive " areas for rural development in Poland are remote rural areas, which are dominated by small farms with small economic strength. In many cases further agricultural...

Establecer y valorar los impactos marginales de la olivicultura ecologica despues de la aplicacion de la condicionalidad, supone una importante herramienta para determinar, en un futuro, posibiles pagos a los agricultores por el caracter multifuncional de este sistema productivo. Por ello, en el...

El elavdo precio del aceite de oliva virgen extra ecologico -APVEE- frente al de su homonimo convencional, aceite de oliva virgen extra convencional -AOVEC-, es senaldo en la literatura como un factor limitante de su consumo. Sin embargo, la cuantificacion de la diferencia entre los precios de...

A farm model is developed for simulating the potential income change resulting from conversion to organic farming. The model uses conventional farm data, taken from the Belgian FADN. Given the normative character of the model, and the impossibility of calibration to historical conversion...

The assumption, that in case of production different from the conventional one, operational and production risk are increasing in farms, is supported by the calculations. Input/output relations undergo a change in each sector and this may have serious financial outcomes, which would importantly...

While conventional farming systems face serious problems of sustainability, organic agriculture is seen as a more environmentally friendly system since it favours renewable resources, recycles nutrients, uses the environment’s own systems for controlling pests and diseases, sustains...

The cost-profit relations of organic and conventional farming were examined on the basis of natural and financial data of a large agricultural - company in western Hungary and of economic models characterising private farms in eastern Hungary. The differences in cost structures reflect variable...

Until now, organic farming in Austria saw its largest growth in the period between 1994 and 1998. The following factors all contributed to Austria achieving the highest percentage of organic farms in Europe: the early addition of guidelines for organic crop production and animal husbandry to the...