Sociological perspectives of organic agriculture : from pioneer to policy /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2006.
• Subjects: Organic farming > Congresses.; Natural foods industry > Congresses.; Sociology, Rural > Congresses.; Agricultural Economics.; Food Economics, (New March 2000); Consumer Economics.; Plant Cropping Systems.; Animal Husbandry and Production, (New March 2000); Food Science and Food Products (Human); Food Composition and Quality.; Social Psychology and Social Anthropology, (New March 2000); Rural Sociology, (New March 2000); Behaviour.; Consumer attitudes.; Consumer behaviour.; Food quality.; Organic farming.; Organic foods.; Rural sociology.; Social change.; Electronic books.
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This book focuses on the contributions that organic farming offers to wider social change. It considers the role of all those involved in creating an organic sector. By providing a range of quantitative and qualitative analyses of organic 'farm-to-fork' networks, the book shows how the way...

Table of Contents:

• Sociological Perspectives of Organic Agriculture : an introduction / M. Reed and G. Holt
• What Farmers' Markets Say About the Post-organic Movement in Ireland / O. Moore
• Turf Wars : the Organic Movement's Veto of GM in UK Agriculture / M. Reed
• Fertile Minds and Friendly Pens : Early Women Pioneers / M. Schmitt
• Motivations and Values : a Means-end Chain Study of French Consumers / L. Sirieix, A. Alessandrin and V. Persillet
• A Conceptual Model of Willingness to Pay for Organic Food in the UK / G. Holt
• Motorcyclists in the USA and the UK : Risk Perception of Local and Organic Food / B. Scholten
• Has Organic Farming Modernized Itself Out of Business? Reverting to Conventional Methods in Denmark / P. Kaltoft and M. Risgaard
• Conventionalization in the Australian Organic Industry : a Case Study of the Darling Downs Region / S. Jordan, H. Shuji and R. Izawa
• Auditing Sustainability : the Impact of EurepGAP in New Zealand / H. Campbell, C. McLeod and C. Rosin
• Emerging Scared : an Analysis of Socioeconomic Data on Conversion in South Africa / K. Niemeyer and J. Lombard
• Is There a Female Principle in Organic Farming? An Interpretation of Data for Norway / H. Bjorkhaug
• The Paradox of Diffusion of Organic Farming : a Case Study in Denmark / E. Noe
• Regional Rural Development : the Formulation of Ecoregions in Austria / M. Schermer
• Rural Social Development : Small-scale Horticulture in São Paulo, Brazil / S. Bellon and L. de Abreu
• Public Sector Procurement : Organic School Meals in Denmark / A. Dahl and N. Kristensen
• National Agricultural Policy : the German Agrarwende / M. Schafer, H. Ulmer, A. Engel, J. Kantelhardt and A. Heiβ<U+0065><U+006e><U+0068><U+0075>β<U+0065><U+0072> <U+002d><U+002d> <U+0053><U+006f>γ<U+0069><U+006f><U+006c><U+006f><U+0067><U+0069>γα<U+006c> <U+0050><U+0065><U+0072><U+0073><U+0070><U+0065>γ<U+0074><U+0069><U+0076><U+0065><U+0073> <U+006f><U+0066> <U+004f><U+0072><U+0067>α<U+006e><U+0069>γ <U+0052><U+0065><U+0073><U+0065>α<U+0072>γ<U+0068> <U+003a> <U+0074><U+006f> <U+0050><U+006f><U+006c><U+0069>γ<U+0079> α<U+006e><U+0064> <U+0042><U+0065><U+0079><U+006f><U+006e><U+0064> <U+002f> <U+0047><U+002e> <U+0048><U+006f><U+006c><U+0074> α<U+006e><U+0064> <U+004d><U+002e> <U+0052><U+0065><U+0065><U+0064><U+002e>