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| Melece, Ligita; Prauliņš, Artūrs; Popluga, Dina. |
| Organic agriculture plays an important role in the sustainable and environment-friendly agricultural production. The authors paper analyse the development and economic is¬sues of organic farming in Latvia. The primary information on organic farming in Latvia regarding the trends, the number of farms and land use, support payments as well as a short description of the structure of organic farming are provided. The influence of Latvia’s accession to the European Union on the organic farming development is assessed. The results of an analysis of the economic performance (net value added) of organic farms and a comparison with conventional farming are presented. |
| Tipo: Journal paper |
Palavras-chave: "Organics" in general. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/18688/1/LM_3.pdf |
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| Melece, Ligita; Romanova, Dina. |
| The article presents main results of the first in Latvia study addressing the issues of the development of Latvia’s sustainable food production. For detailed research two main themes for Latvia’s agri-food sector’s sustainability were chosen: 1) the issues related to further development of the organic farming and processing; where the special attention has been paid to organic milk processing; and obtaining of organic pigmeat and beef in different Latvia’s regions; 2) quality and environment management systems enforcement - mandatory and voluntary and the trends of implementation of the international management standards (ISO 9001, ISO 22000; HACCP DS 3027:2002; ISO 14001). The publications, legal documents and databases of Latvia’s governmental and... |
| Tipo: Journal paper |
Palavras-chave: Food security; Food quality and human health Processing; Packaging and transportation. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/18615/1/LM_1.pdf |
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| Melece, Ligita. |
| Organic farming as the method and organic food nowadays play more and more important role in supplying sustainable and environmentally friendly practices, support a high level of biodiversity, utilize natural processes and ensure appropriate animal welfare standards. The paper analyzes the development and issues of perspectives of organic farming in Latvia. Some findings on organic agriculture development are given, estimating the primary information on organic farming in Latvia regarding the trends of organic farms' number, utilized organic agricultural land and share of organic land in the total agricultural land. Furthermore, the state policy and support for organic farming have been analyzed and compared with that of European Union (EU) and its Member... |
| Tipo: Conference paper, poster, etc. |
Palavras-chave: "Organics" in general. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/18687/1/LM_2.pdf |
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