creators_name: Hamm, Ulrich
creators_name: Zakowska-Biemans, Sylwia
type: conference_item
datestamp: 2006-05-10
lastmod: 2009-09-09 13:39:28
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title: Improving organic market data collection by using the supply balance sheet approach
ispublished: pub
subjects: 8policy
subjects: 5markets
full_text_status: public
abstract: Analyses of national markets for organic agricultural products are constrained by the lack of official statistics on production, consumption or international trade in any European country. As a result there are several, often very contradictory and inconsistent estimations on the amount of the organic production or consumption in the EU or even in individual EU countries. The main sources for market data estima-tions are surveys with market actors and sometimes extrapolations of household or retailer panel studies. One possibility to reduce the problem of inconsistent market data for a geographical region is to use the method of supply balance sheets (SBS). By using SBS which compare the resources and uses of a product, it is easier to detect inconsistencies between produc-tion, consumption or foreign trade data. Additional quality checks can support the identification of inconsistencies between organic and conventional market data.
date: 2006
date_type: published
refereed: never
citation: Hamm, Prof. Dr. Ulrich and Zakowska-Biemans, Dr. Sylwia (2006) Improving organic market data collection by using the supply balance sheet approach. Joint Organic Congress, Odense, Denmark, May 30-31, 2006.
document_url: http://orgprints.org/7148/1/Odense_supply_balances.pdf