Entwicklung und Anwendung von Betriebsmodellen für den ökologischen Landbau am Beispiel des Landes Brandenburg

Summary

The paper discusses the elaboration and an application of the ‘agri benchmark’ approach for organic farms. Since many years, the approach is used at the Thünen Institute of Farm Economics for the international comparative analysis of conventional production systems. In cooperation with the Thünen Institute, the University of Sustainable Development Eberswalde applied the methodology on typical production systems of organic farms. The challenge of this approach is to cover the large variety of organic production systems. The applicability will be further tested by analysing the impact of post 2013 CAP reform on organic farming in the State of Brandenburg.