TY  - GEN
PB  - Blegian Science Policy
SP  - 1
ID  - orgprints56223
UR  - https://orgprints.org/id/eprint/56223/
EP  - 183
CY  - Brussel
TI  - How can organic farming contribute to sustainable production and consumption patterns?
AV  - public
KW  - élevage
KW  -  bovin
KW  -  consommation
KW  -  Belgique
KW  -  marché
KW  -  recherche action
KW  -  durabilité
A1  - Mormont, Marc
A1  - Stilmant, Didier
A1  - Van Huylenbroeck, Guido
A1  - Stassart, Pierre
A1  - Jamar, Laurent
A1  - Aertsens, Joris
N2  - 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.
Y1  - 2006///
ER  -