https://orgprints.org/id/eprint/56223 2026-06-01T16:17:34Z info:eu-repo/semantics/descriptiveMetadata https://orgprints.org/id/eprint/56223/ How can organic farming contribute to sustainable production and consumption patterns? Mormont, Marc Stilmant, Didier Van Huylenbroeck, Guido Stassart, Pierre Jamar, Laurent Aertsens, Joris Systems research and participatory research Beef cattle Markets and trade Consumer issues Produce chain management 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. Blegian Science Policy 2006 Report NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en /id/eprint/56223/1/rappCP19_en.pdf 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. info:eu-repo/semantics/objectFile info:eu-repo/semantics/humanStartPage