creators_name: Padel, Susanne
creators_name: Nicholas, Phillipa
creators_name: Jasinska, Aleksandra
creators_name: Lampkin, Nicolas
creators_id: 348
type: conference_item
datestamp: 2008-08-06
lastmod: 2009-08-20 14:37:53
metadata_visibility: show
title: Ethical concerns associated with organic food in Europe
ispublished: pub
subjects: 5markets
subjects: 2farming
subjects: 6values
full_text_status: public
keywords: Organic standards and value, additional concerns, organic food systems. FCP
abstract: Values are at the centre of organic farming. The paper examines ethical concerns that are important to consumers, producers and other stakeholders in relation to organic farming practice and how this relates to current standards and the four IFOAM principles of health, ecology, fairness and care. Most concerns can be categorised under four headings but important issues are cross cutting. Currently, standards cover, both directly and indirectly, only a part of ethical values associated with organic food and agriculture but many producers aim to deliver on a broader range. 
date: 2008
date_type: published
publication: Cultivate the future. Proceedings of 16 IFOAM world congress (CD)
refereed: never
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citation: Padel, Susanne; Nicholas, Phillipa; Jasinska, Aleksandra and Lampkin, Nicolas (2008) Ethical concerns associated with organic food in Europe. 16th IFOAM Organic World Congress, Modena, Italy, June 16-20, 2008. In: Cultivate the future. Proceedings of 16 IFOAM world congress (CD).
document_url: http://orgprints.org/12132/1/12132.pdf