Winter, Eva; Grovermann, Christian; Orsini, Stefano; Solfanelli, Francesco and Aurbacher, Joachim (2021) The Effects of Interventions Targeting Increased Organic Seed Use - The Cases of Perennial Ryegrass in England and Durum Wheat in Italy. Sustainability, 13 (23), p. 13326.
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To meet policy goals targeting increasing the share of organic agriculture, an organic seed needs to be provided. Currently, this is far from being the case. This study investigates two cases of important crop country combinations in organic agriculture, namely perennial ryegrass in South-West England and durum wheat in Italy. A novel multi-agent value chain approach was developed to assess public and private-sector interventions aiming at increasing organic seed use. Phasing out of derogations for non-organic seed comes with 2–7% gross margin losses at the farm level. Seed producers and breeders profit by 9–24%. Mitigating measures can be subsidies of 28 €/ha or price premiums of 12 €/ton at the farm gate for durum wheat, in the case of durum wheat in Italy, and subsidies of 13 €/ha or price premiums of 70 €/ton for lamb meat, in the case of perennial ryegrass in England. Further mitigating measures are the promotion of farm-saved durum wheat seed and investments in breeding for better nitrogen efficiency in organic perennial ryegrass seed production
EPrint Type: | Journal paper |
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Keywords: | organic seed, value chain analysis, agent-based modelling, policies, farm to fork strategy, Abacus, FiBL2006404 |
Agrovoc keywords: | Language Value URI English seed http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_6927 English value chain analysis http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_c639de44 English policies http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_6062 English breeding http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_49902 English genetics http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_3222 |
Subjects: | Values, standards and certification Crop husbandry > Breeding, genetics and propagation |
Research affiliation: | Switzerland > FiBL - Research Institute of Organic Agriculture Switzerland > Crops > Seeds and breeding European Union > Horizon 2020 > Liveseed |
DOI: | 10.3390/su132313326 |
Deposited By: | Ferrari, Leone |
ID Code: | 42906 |
Deposited On: | 09 Dec 2021 09:34 |
Last Modified: | 18 Jan 2022 16:29 |
Document Language: | English |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Peer-reviewed and accepted |
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