creators_name: Häring, A.M creators_name: Vairo, D. creators_name: Dabbert, S. creators_name: Zanoli, R. type: conference_item datestamp: 2006-05-09 lastmod: 2009-09-09 13:39:54 metadata_visibility: show title: Stakeholder involvement in policy evaluation and development in 11 European countries: synthesis results ispublished: pub subjects: 8policy subjects: 2systems full_text_status: public keywords: multi-stakeholders involvement, policy learning/transfer, network, organic farming policy abstract: In an effort in bringing together stakeholders of the organic farming and general agricultural policy sector within the EU in April Mai 2004 a group of stakeholders met for a one day-workshop in 11 European countries (AT, GB, DE, DK, IT, CH, CZ, PL, SI, EE, HU) to formulate policy recommen¬dations for the development of organic farming sector. Close personal contact of participants in these workshops facilitated policy learning and innovation at the national level and provided a platform to form alliances to decide on further actions. This contribution presents the synthesised results from all national workshops highlighting the current situation of organic farming policy in Europe and providing recommendations for future policy instruments. date: 2006 date_type: published refereed: never referencetext: Häring, A. M., S. Dabbert, J. Aurbacher, B. Bichler, C. Eichert, D. Gambelli, N. Lampkin, F. Offermann, S. Olmos, J. Tuson und R. Zanoli. (2004). Organic farming and measures of European agricultural policy. Organic Farming in Europe: Economics and Policy, Vol. 11. Häring, A.M., Vairo, D. (2004a): Multi-stakeholder integration in the Identification of a new Organic Farming Policy: Workshop manual 1. EU-CEEOFP, http://www.uni-hohenheim.de/i410a/EUCEEOFP/. Häring, A.M., Vairo, D. (2004b): Assessment of current national policies for organic farming and the future of the organic farming sector in view of the development of policy instruments: Reports on national policy workshops in 11 European countries. Report EU-CEEOFP, http://www.uni-hohenheim.de/i410a/EUCEEOFP/. Hemmati, M. (2002): Multi-Stakeholder Processes for Governance and Sustainability – Beyond deadlock and conflict. Earthscan. Lampkin, N. C. Foster, S. Padel and P. Midmore (1999) The policy and regulatory environment for organic farming in Europe. Organic Farming in Europe: Economics and Policy, Volume 1. Prazan, J., K. Koutna and A. Skorpikova (2004): Development of Organic Farming and the Policy Environment in Central and Eastern European Accession States, 1997-2002, EU-CEEOFP project report. Vairo, D., A.M. Häring, R. Zanoli, S. Dabbert (2005a): Assessment of policies and development of policy recommendations for organic farming: a cross-country synthesis of national policy workshops in 11 European countries. EU-CEEOFP project report. Vairo, D., A.M. Häring, R. Zanoli, S. Dabbert (2005b): Multi-stakeholder integration in the identification of a new Organic Farming Policy: Concept & Outline of the EU workshop. EU-CEEOFP project report. citation: Häring, A.M; Vairo, D.; Dabbert, S. and Zanoli, R. (2006) Stakeholder involvement in policy evaluation and development in 11 European countries: synthesis results. [Stakeholder involvement in policy evaluation and development in 11 European countries: synthesis results.] Joint Organic Congress, Odense, Denmark, May 30-31, 2006. document_url: http://orgprints.org/7523/1/Theme2_Haering_Vairo_Zanoli_Dabbert_final.pdf