Given the crisis of productivism, organic agriculture has in recent years a remarkable development. It appears in fact as a form of sustainable agriculture alternative to conventional agriculture. But despite this strong development and the growing importance, there is a lack of methods for assessing the sustainability of organic farms. There was an abundant production of methods for assessing the sustainability of farms; but most often, these methods are intended for conventional farming systems and therefore take little account of the speci fi city of organic farming. In this chapter, we propose a method for assessing farm's sustainability suitable for organic farming. This method relies on one side of the agricultural sustainability principles and the other side on the principles and characteristics of organic farming. The results of application of this method on a sample of farms in the Midi-Pyrenees region (southern France) show that it takes into account very well the agro-ecological and socio-territorial speci fi cities of organic farming.
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