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This study uses life cycle assessment methodology to quantify the energy use, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and water use of processed tomato products grown, processed, and consumed within the Great Lakes region of the United States, and tomato products produced in California and then shipped...
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to revealthe intentions, environmental values, andfarming practices for organic, conventional,and GE intending farmers … technology, one fifth were GEintending and one quarter may become organic.Organic farmers have different attitudes tonature …
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all the farmers studied and for subgroups using conventional, integrated, and organic management systems. The results are …
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tolerance standards: organics (i.e., zero-synthetic chemicals). The focus is on the governance of organic standards in the rural … Indonesia, where the idea of zero tolerance is historically foreign. Drawing on a case study of an organic shrimp project in …
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Social, cultural and demographic changes due to economic growth lead to changes on food production patterns. Increased instruction levels, strong urbanization and consequent depopulation of rural areas, increased number of working women, increased wealth of families, growth and differentiation...
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Previous studies have found that organic crop production in the midwestern United States can be more profitable than … systems. If an organic crop rotation cannot be managed on as large an area as a conventional rotation given the same resources …, a per-hectare profitability advantage for the organic system would not necessarily translate into a whole …
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proposed that the island nation of The Commonwealth of Dominica convert all agriculture to organic production. This study … explores Dominica’s current and potential domestic demand for organic and/or “locally grown” produce. Surveys were conducted … likelihood estimation procedure. On average, Dominican consumers are willing to pay 17.5 % more for organic, and 12 % more for …
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In Norway, the production andconsumption of organic food is still small-scale. Research on attitudes towards organic … market share for organic food. Similarities between groups of consumers and producers of food, organic and conventional, when … understanding market conditions for organically produced food. The results of our study indicate that organic farmers and organic …
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systems—one of which is organic—and also serve an international market, indicates that the constraints of such systems still …
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