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| Kilcher, Lukas; Eisenring, Tobias; Menon, Manoj. |
| Organic market strategies of many developing countries are mainly export oriented. On one hand, this is due to lack of local and regional market development. On the other hand, this is due to the fact that the organic market offers producers and trading companies in the South and East excellent export opportunities. How can developing countries develop local and regional markets? The promotion of organic markets ¬– both on local and international level – gets more and more attention in agricultural policies and in development cooperation. One big challenge is to support trade rules and favourable business conditions up to comprehensive national action plans in order to support the development of the organic market. Special focus needs the development of... |
| Tipo: Conference paper, poster, etc. |
Palavras-chave: Policy environments and social economy; Markets and trade. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/12987/1/kilcher%2Detal%2Dmarket%2Ddevelopment.pdf |
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| Kilcher, Lukas; Willer, Helga; Huber, Beate; Frieden, Claudia; Schmutz, Res; Schmid, Otto. |
| From the Foreword by Luks Kilcher, FiBL More than thirty-seven million hectares of agricultural land are managed organically by nearly 1.8 million producers. About one-third of the world’s organic land – 13.4 million hectares – is located in emerging markets and markets in transition. Global sales reached 55 billion USD in 2009, more than doubling in value from 25 billion USD in 2003. Europe is after the USA the second largest organic market in the world with a turnover of 26 billion USD in 2009. These figures increase year by year and such facts impressively illustrate the powerful development of the organic production and market all over the world. Behind these figures lie a large number of benefits and impacts, which are the motor for this... |
| Tipo: Book |
Palavras-chave: Markets and trade; Europe; Regulation. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/18347/1/kilcher-etal-2011-sippo.pdf |
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| Zundel, Christine; Kilcher, Lukas; Mäder, Paul. |
| Organic agriculture is an option that interests agricultural stakeholders because it combines environmental conservation with low-cost technology and access to premium price markets. The organic farming system has proven its advantages in terms of resource efficiency, ecosystem functioning, soil fertility conservation and economic impact in a wide range of experiments and studies in the developed countries of the temperate zones. In low-income countries of the tropics, meanwhile, NGOs and farmers’ groups are now increasingly adopting organic techniques as a means of improving productivity and food security. Despite the high demand from producer organizations, development agencies, national authorities and international donors for sound data on the... |
| Tipo: Conference paper, poster, etc. |
Palavras-chave: "Organics" in general Education; Extension and communication. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/13303/1/Zundel_et_al_Tropentag07_full_paper.pdf |
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| Garibay, Salvador; Amador, Manuel; Castro, Jonathan; Kilcher, Lukas. |
| Coffee is Nicaragua’s main organic product. There are 13,100 hectares of certified coffee. This area represents 10 percent of the total coffee production of Nicaragua and is managed by approximately 3,500 small producers. 90 percent of the organic coffee is sold for the export market. In Nicaragua a legal framework for organic farming as well as regulations for the development of environmental services payments exist (forest conservation, water management, biodiversity conservation, carbon sequestration). There are also studies on carbon sequestration and carbon emissions in agriculture, forestry and industry. However, there are no investigations relating specifically to organic agriculture and climate change. 2. Background investigation Since 2004,... |
| Tipo: Conference paper, poster, etc. |
Palavras-chave: Policy environments and social economy; Air and water emissions. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/13207/1/garibay%2Detal%2D2008%2Dclimate%2Dchange%2Ddeveloping%2Dcountries.pdf |
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| Kilcher, Lukas. |
| The typical Cuban farming units are large-scale cooperatives, in which farming families are more or less loosely organized. In the low lands, these cooperatives normally specialize in a few products for the market and a higher diversity of self-sufficiency crops. In the mountain areas, these cooperatives produce in diverse agroforestry systems. This is especially the case for the eastern provinces Guantanamo and Santiago. Large-scale plantations were developed by the Spanish and US colonialists, and further developed by the socialist government. After Cuban Revolution in 1959, land was distributed to more than 200’000 small farmer families through the Agrarian Reforms of 1959 and 1963, while 70 percent of the latifundio lands passed over to state control.... |
| Tipo: Book chapter |
Palavras-chave: Cuba. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/17925/1/kilcher-2009-world-organic-agriculture.pdf |
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| Kilcher, Lukas. |
| Agriculture in post-revolutionary Cuba is based on large-scale, capital-intensive and labour-extensive monocultures. In order to sustain these, the island continually imported fertilizers, pesticides and diesel at subsidized prices from the former Soviet economic aid community, COMECOM. Since this collapsed in the early 1990s, Cuba has suffered from an acute shortage of raw materials. At the same time, the main sales market for Cuban agricultural production has disappeared. Given this situation, agriculture in Cuba faces multiple challenges: Firstly Cuba needs to find new customers, practically overnight. Secondly, its agricultural producers must learn to manage with the little that they themselves have. Thirdly, Cuba needs financial resources to renovate... |
| Tipo: Journal paper |
Palavras-chave: Fruit and berries; Cuba. |
| Ano: 2001 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/2914/1/kilcher-2001-cuba.pdf |
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| Vogl, Christian R.; Kilcher, Lukas; Schmidt, Hanspeter. |
| Organic farming is a promising agricultural method with positive effects on the human ecological and social environment. Governments have taken over a major role in defining organic farming by creating legal standards. Many countries all over the world have established a certification and accreditation system in order to protect the justified expectations of consumers with regard to processing and controlling the product quality of organic goods and to protecting producers from fraudulent trade practices. As they are relevant to international trade, these standards do not only influence the organic farming movement on the national level but also have a converse impact across national borders. Organic farming was established in a bottom-up process as... |
| Tipo: Journal paper |
Palavras-chave: Regulation; Networks and ownership; Technology transfer. |
| Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/5448/1/J064v26n01_03.pdf |
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| Kilcher, Lukas. |
| Organic agriculture can contribute to meaningful socio-economic and ecologically sustainable development, especially in poorer countries. This is due on the one hand to the application of organic principles, which means efficient management of local resources (e.g. local seed varieties, manure, etc.) and therefore costeffectiveness. On the other hand, the market for organic products – at local and international level – has tremendous growth prospects and offers creative producers and exporters in the South excellent opportunities to improve their income and living conditions. Establishing whether organic agriculture is a viable alternative for a particular holding needs to be carried out on a case-by-case basis. What potential does organic agriculture have... |
| Tipo: Newspaper or magazine article |
Palavras-chave: "Organics" in general Education; Extension and communication. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/10680/1/Kilcher_2007_JARTS_SP_89.pdf |
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| Zundel, Christine; Kilcher, Lukas; Mäder, Paul. |
| The demand of producer organisations, development agencies, national authorities, and international donors for secured data regarding the agronomic, ecological and economic performance of organic agriculture in low-income countries of the tropics is high. Yet, no systematic comparisons between organic and conventional farming systems have been conducted which allow long-term statements in these areas. The Research Institute of Organic Farming (FiBL), together with its partners, wants to establish long-term farming system comparisons in various agro-ecological and agro-economic contexts to study the various parameters which are essential for sustainable development. At present, three sites are being established: (a) in a sub-humid area in Kenya where... |
| Tipo: Conference paper, poster, etc. |
Palavras-chave: Soil biology; Biodiversity and ecosystem services; Soil quality. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/9387/1/9387_Zundel_Vortrag.pdf |
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| Zundel, Christine; Kilcher, Lukas. |
| Introduction Food availability, access, stability and utilization are all part of the multi-dimensional nature of food security. The “availability” aspect, discussed here, refers to the availability of sufficient quantities of food of appropriate quality, supplied through domestic production or inputs. Productivity is usually considered the ultimate benchmark when comparing the performance of agricultural systems. For example, those involved in agricultural research and development want to know how much yield would be reduced if conventional agriculture were converted to organic agriculture. While rigorous research has been done in developed countries to address this question, scientific evidence from developing countries is rare. This paper compiles the... |
| Tipo: Conference paper, poster, etc. |
Palavras-chave: Food security; Food quality and human health Biodiversity and ecosystem services. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/10753/1/zundel%2Dkilcher%2D2007%2Dfood%2Davailability.pdf |
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| Kilcher, Lukas; Weidmann, Gilles; Garibay, Salvador V.. |
| CD with the Training Manual in English, French and Spanish. The training manual contains case studies of organic farming systems, describes successful organic marketing initiatives and offers guidelines for the main crops of the humid tropics. With the informative text, transparencies and didactical recommendations the publication offers a resource basis for trainers with the idea of encouraging individual adaptation and further development of the material according to need. 270 pages plus additional material. |
| Tipo: Other |
Palavras-chave: "Organics" in general Education; Extension and communication. |
| Ano: 2007 |
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| Alfoeldi, Thomas; Fliessbach, Andreas; Geier, Uwe; Kilcher, Lukas; Niggli, Urs; Pfiffner, Lukas; Stolze, Matthias; Willer, Helga. |
| Conclusion of chapter 2: "Organic Farming and the Environment" 7 Conclusion The findings of this study show that organic farming provides a wide range of environmental services. The main results may be summarised as follows: 1. Organic matter content is usually higher in organically managed soils indicating a higher fertility and stability of organic soils, thus reducing the risk of erosion. 2. Organically farmed soils have significantly higher biological activity and a higher total mass of micro-organisms. As a consequence of the higher activity of micro-organisms, in organically managed soils nutrients are recycled faster and soil structure is improved. 3. Organic farming poses no risk of ground and surface water pollution through synthetic... |
| Tipo: Book chapter |
Palavras-chave: Biodiversity and ecosystem services; Soil quality; Air and water emissions. |
| Ano: 2002 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/573/1/y4137e02.htm |
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| Kilcher, Lukas. |
| Landwirtschaft ist für ärmere Länder oft die wichtigste Einkommensquelle. Die Verbesserung der Lebensqualität und des Einkommens der Landbevölkerung in Entwicklungsländern setzt deshalb eine Verbesserung der Absatzmöglichkeiten lokaler Agrarerzeugnisse und eine Entwicklung der Subsistenzhin zu einer Marktproduktion voraus. Die große Herausforderung für die Entwicklungszusammenarbeit ist es, den Bauern Wege für eine Verbesserung ihrer Anbaumethoden aufzuzeigen, damit sie von den Marktchancen profitieren können – ohne ihre wirtschaftliche Situation zu verschlechtern, ohne neue Abhängigkeiten zu schaffen und ohne die natürlichen Ressourcen zu beeinträchtigen. Dieser Herausforderung muss sich auch der Bio-Landbau stellen.Wie kann er in ärmeren Ländern zu... |
| Tipo: Journal paper |
Palavras-chave: Food security; Food quality and human health Biodiversity and ecosystem services. |
| Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/5181/1/kilcher%2D2005%2Dnachhaltige%2Dentwicklung.pdf |
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