relation: https://orgprints.org/id/eprint/56223/
title: How can organic farming contribute to sustainable production and consumption patterns?
creator: Mormont, Marc
creator: Stilmant, Didier
creator: Van Huylenbroeck, Guido
creator: Stassart, Pierre
creator: Jamar, Laurent
creator: Aertsens, Joris
subject:  Systems research and participatory research
subject:  Beef cattle
subject:  Markets and trade
subject: Consumer issues
subject:  Produce chain management
description: The project’s overall objective is to define the sustainability of organic agriculture based on three  two-part dimensions that must be confronted with each other and balanced, namely,  - economic sustainability: competitive position and potential for development,  - environmental sustainability: reproduction of resources and balance of specific externalities; and  - social sustainability: innovative abilities and social/territorial externalities.  These dimensions must be evaluated, matched up with effective sets of references, and backed up by policy instruments.  This makes it possible to define the research’s specific aims:  1. To establish technical references for the two major stakes linked to the organic ranching and  fattening of cattle, namely, rations and health. That entails making use of/improving the positive  externalities of organic cattle ranching schemes (nitrogen balance, biodiversity) and analysing their environmental and social costs.  2. To study and test the organisational forms that permit negotiation between marketing requirements and the dimensions of sustainability and to reinforce the guarantees that the various production and processing networks appear to give consumers.  3. To analyse consumer demand and the most suitable communication tools and to initiate a participatory and experimental approach to negotiation.
publisher: Blegian Science Policy
date: 2006
type: Report
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
language: en
identifier: /id/eprint/56223/1/rappCP19_en.pdf
identifier:    Mormont, Marc; Stilmant, Didier; Van Huylenbroeck, Guido; Stassart, Pierre; Jamar, Laurent and Aertsens, Joris         (2006) How can organic farming contribute to sustainable production and consumption patterns?  [COMMENT L'AGRICULTURE BIOLOGIQUE PEUT-ELLE CONTRIBUER À DES MODES DE PRODUCTION ET DE CONSOMMATION DURABLES ?]   Blegian Science Policy, Brussel.