scholarly journals Lithuanian Organic Agriculture in the Context of European Union

10.5772/58352 ◽  
2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vytautas Pilipavičius ◽  
Alvydas Grigaliūnas
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Organic Agriculture

scholarly journals Analysis of the organic agriculture level of development in the European Union countries

2017 ◽  
Vol 64 (3) ◽  
pp. 957-971
Author(s):  
Bojan Krstic ◽  
Jelena Petrovic ◽  
Tanja Stanisic ◽  
Ernad Kahrovic
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Organic Agriculture ◽  
The European Union ◽  
European Union Countries

Growing Innovation Policy: The Case of Organic Agriculture in Ontario, Canada

10.1068/c17r ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 557-581 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison Blay-Palmer
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Organic Agriculture ◽  
Research Funding ◽  
Innovation Policy ◽  
Policy Recommendations ◽  
Policy Options ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Policy Changes ◽  
Local Networks

A case study of innovation in organic agriculture in Ontario, Canada, illustrates the merits of multiscaled analysis as a tool to identify relevant policy options for the European Union and North America. Policy recommendations that emerged from interviews included the need to: develop and reinforce local networks and associational capacity; address inequities that result from global subsidies; and develop national research funding and standards to support organics. These policy changes would provide production and marketing alternatives, making the sector more resilient. Theoretically, the research highlights the dynamic and interconnected facets of innovation and the need for multiscaled analysis to capture interscale linkages.

scholarly journals Sustainability Organic Agriculture and Livestock Production with Respect to European Union in Eastern Anatolia and East Black Sea Regions

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (11) ◽  
pp. 1024 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vecihi Aksakal ◽  
Sümer Haşimoğlu ◽  
Bahri Bayram ◽  
Yaşar Erdoğan ◽  
Hilal Ürüşan Altun ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Organic Agriculture ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Logical Consequence ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Livestock Production ◽  
Eastern Anatolia ◽  
Low Level ◽  
Government Relations ◽  
Turkish Government

The majority of farm households in Turkey and especially the Eastern Anatolia are still based on low-input semi subsistence agriculture and livestock production. Despite a slow decline in recent years, agriculture and livestock production remains a major employer in Turkey and it is a significant contributor to the country’s gross domestic product, GDP. Whist Turkey is one of the EU candidate countries, is self sufficient in food production and Turkish agriculture is poorly structured inefficient, with farming in the Eastern Anatolia being mainly subsistence farming. Yet, these traditional rural structures combined with poor access to low level of education and low level of off-farm unemployment problem makes the situation more complicated and unsustainable. The best way to promote sustainability, better and higher production of Eastern Anatolian and rural Turkey is to invest in the local people, villages through improved, continuing and effective agricultural and livestock programs in particular. Investment in human capital especially in the rural areas leads to more employment opportunities through entrepreneurship and innovation in organic agriculture and livestock production. A holistic approach to developing and improving supply chains could unlock the potential for sophisticated, state-of-the-art organic agriculture and livestock producers and businesses in the region to become EU and global players. Eastern Anatolian livestock producers and the farmers have the ambitions to take part in future progress because the region is naturally organic not by design but default. It is for sure that present potential of the region has not been fully determined and utilized. EU has greatly benefited from previous enlargements economically, politically and socially. When European Union (EU) and Turkish Government relations considered and accession of Turkey to EU would be the logical consequence of the previous accessions. The screening on chapter 11 (Agriculture and rural development) is one of the important criteria and Turkey is working on to meet these benchmarks.

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