Consumers and consumption of organic food in Central and Eastern European new member states of the European Union

9806 1 archive 2915 disk0/00/00/98/06 2007-03-12 2009-08-20 14:34:43 2009-08-20 14:34:43 conference_item show 0 en The final version of this paper is published in: Niggli, Urs; Leifert, Carlo; Alföldi, Thomas; Lück, Lorna and Willer, Helga, Eds. (2007) Improving Sustainability in Organic and Low Input Food Production Systems. Proceedings of the 3rd International Congress of the European Integrated Project Quality Low Input Food (QLIF). University of Hohenheim, Germany, March 20 – 23, 2007. Research Institute of Organic Agriculture FiBL, CH-Frick.http://orgprints.org/10417/ Printed copies may be ordered from the FiBL Shop at www.shop.fibl.org. eu-ceeofp int_conf_2007qlif_1_consumers March 20-23, 2007 3rd QLIF Congress: Improving Sustainability in Organic and Low Input Food Production Systems University of Hohenheim, Germany yes 0 http://orgprints.org/10417/ TRUE poster Zakowska-Biemans S. Consumers and consumption of organic food in Central and Eastern European new member states of the European Union pub 5markets 7consumer consumers, organic food, market development Despite the significant growth of organic farms and organically managed land in Central and Eastern European new member states of the European Union (CEE NMS) the consumption of organic food in these countries remains at the very low level. The main barriers to organic food consumption growth are low availability of organic food in the sale channels where contemporary CEE NMS consumers prefer to buy food, high prices for organic products, related, inter alia, to high distribution costs and high gross margins that reflect the undeveloped nature of organic markets in CEE NMS. Further development of the organic sector in CEE NMS will contribute to the growth of organic food consumption by overcoming the supply-related barriers. Nevertheless, to increase the consumption of organic food, many efforts needed to communicate the benefits of organic food and farming to target potential consumers. 2007 published public 7190 1 9806 1 application/pdf de public

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