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| Brčić-Stipčević, Vesna; Petljak, Kristina; Guszak, Irena. |
| Organic agriculture is a holistic production system, which sustains the natural soil activity, ecosystem and people. This new system is an answer by organic producers to unsustainability of capital intensive agriculture, characterized by mass production, specialization, product standardization and high labour productivity that results in a weaker relation of agriculture to natural conditions and many negative consequences, especially in ecological, social and economic spheres. Development of organic production enabled development of the organic food market. Another incentive for organic food market development is consumers’ increased interest in nutrition, health and environment protection. The first segment of this paper will present an overview of... |
| Tipo: Conference paper, poster, etc. |
Palavras-chave: Surveys and statistics; Markets and trade; Consumer issues; Country reports. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/22456/13/22456.pdf |
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| Brčić-Stipčević, Vesna; Petljak, Kristina; Guszak, Irena. |
| In the last ten years, both the academic community and the general public became more interested in organic agriculture. Organic agriculture is a holistic production system, which sustains the natural soil activity, ecosystems and people. It supports ecological processes, biodiversity and normal life-cycle in the nature, respects the specifics of a locality and excludes inputs of a non-organic origin. Available statistical data show that there are 1,8 million producers from 160 countries that engage in organic agriculture. The numbers of organic farms and share of organic in total agricultural surfaces are constantly increasing. Development of organic agriculture, namely, increase of organic agriculture outputs, enables creation of the market for organic... |
| Tipo: Conference paper, poster, etc. |
Palavras-chave: Markets and trade; History of organics; Countries and regions. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/22458/7/22458.pdf |
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