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| Dimitri, Carolyn; Greene, Catherine R.. |
| Organic farming is one of the fastest growing segments of U.S. agriculture. As consumer interest continues to gather momentum, many U.S. producers, manufacturers, distributors, and retailers are specializing in growing, processing, and marketing an ever-widening array of organic agricultural and food products. This report summarizes growth patterns in the U.S. organic sector in recent years, by market category, and describes various research, regulatory, and other ongoing programs on organic agriculture in the U.S. Department of Agriculture. |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Organic agriculture; Organic farming systems; Organic marketing; Organic marketing channels; Certified organic acreage and livestock; Price premiums; National organic rules; Specialty agriculture; High-value crops; USDA research; Marketing. |
| Ano: 2002 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/33715 |
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| Asfaw, Solomon; Mithofer, Dagmar; Waibel, Hermann. |
| In parallel with changes in official standards, supermarket chains in Europe have developed prescriptive, production-oriented standards, e.g. the European Union Retailers Produce Working Group for Good Agricultural Practices (GlobalGAP), and are asking their suppliers for produce to be certified according to food-safety and quality standards. There are concerns that the proliferation and enhanced stringency of standards that are imposed by high-income countries can negatively affect the competitiveness of producers in developing countries and impede actors from entering or even remaining in high-value food markets. Yet, in some cases, others argue that such standards can play a positive role, providing the catalyst and incentives for the modernization of... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: High-value crops; Food-safety standards; Productivity; Crop Production/Industries. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/44145 |
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| Ortmann, Gerald F.; King, Robert P.. |
| The objective of this research is to investigate whether agricultural cooperatives can facilitate smallholder farmer access to input and product markets. Farmers in two case study communal areas of KwaZulu-Natal face high transaction costs as reflected primarily in their low levels of education and literacy, lack of market information, insecure property rights, poor road and communication infrastructure, and long distances to markets. Analysis of the reasons why cooperatives were originally established in various parts of the world suggests that most of the causes (such as poverty, market failure and high transaction costs) also apply to the study farmers, as do the seven international principles of cooperation. Smallholder farmers in both case study... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Agricultural cooperatives; Small-scale farmers; High-value crops; Transaction costs; South Africa; Agribusiness. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/10124 |
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| Joshi, P.K.; Birthal, Pratap Singh; Minot, Nicholas. |
| This study examines the sources of crop income growth in Indian agriculture over the 1980s and 1990s. Using a method developed by Minot (2003), the analysis decomposes crop income growth into the contribution of yield increases, area expansion, price increases, and diversification from low-value crops to higher-value crops. The results confirm that at the national level, technology (higher yield) was the main source of crop income growth during 1980s, while rising prices and diversification emerged as the dominant sources of growth in agriculture during 1990s. Diversification towards higher-value crops such as fruits and vegetables accounted for about 27% of crop income growth in the 1980s and 31% in the 1990s. However, these national averages hide... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Crops; Income growth; Agriculture; Grain production; Agricultural research; Research and development; High value commodities; Crop yields; Prices; High-value crops; Decomposition; Crop Production/Industries. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/58572 |
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