ORGANIC 3.0—the vision of the global organic movement and the need for scientific support

Arbenz, Markus; Gould, David M.; Stopes, C.

doi:10.1007/s13165-017-0177-7

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“…In Europe, consumers often associate locally produced and organic food products with higher quality standards (freshness, nutritional value), healthy eating, good taste, cultural values, and more environmentally friendly production methods [ 1 , 2 ]. With the increase of consumers’ demand for local produce and organic food in Europe [ 3 ], the land covered by organic farm increased from 7.27 million hectares in 2006 to 11.63 million hectares in 2014 [ 4 ]. Recent estimates indicate that organic agricultural land covers about 43.7 million hectares of land worldwide, and about 26.6% of this is in Europe [ 4 ].…”

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“…With the increase of consumers’ demand for local produce and organic food in Europe [ 3 ], the land covered by organic farm increased from 7.27 million hectares in 2006 to 11.63 million hectares in 2014 [ 4 ]. Recent estimates indicate that organic agricultural land covers about 43.7 million hectares of land worldwide, and about 26.6% of this is in Europe [ 4 ]. Only in one year (from 2013 to 2014) did the organic agricultural land increase by 2.3%.…”

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Swedish Consumers’ Perception of Food Quality and Sustainability in Relation to Organic Food Production

Bosona

Gebresenbet

2018

Foods

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Consumers’ demand for locally produced and organic foods has increased in Sweden. This paper presents the results obtained from the analysis of data acquired from 100 consumers in Sweden who participated in an online survey during March to June 2016. The objective was to identify consumers’ demand in relation to organic food and sustainable food production, and to understand how the consumers evaluate food quality and make buying decisions. Qualitative descriptions, descriptive statistics and Pearson’s Chi-square test (with alpha value of p < 0.05 as level of significance), and Pearson’s correlation coefficient were used for analysis. About 72% of participants have the perception that organic food production method is more sustainable than conventional methods. Female consumers have more positive attitudes than men towards organic food. However, age difference, household size and income level do not significantly influence the consumers’ perception of sustainable food production concepts. Regionality, sustainable methods of production and organic production are the most important parameters to characterize the food as high quality and make buying decisions. On the other hand, product uniformity, appearance, and price were found to be relatively less important parameters. Food buying decisions and food quality were found to be highly related with Pearson’s correlation coefficient of r = 0.99.

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Swedish Consumers’ Perception of Food Quality and Sustainability in Relation to Organic Food Production

Bosona

Gebresenbet

2018

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“…bio-effectors, robotics). The OK-Net Arable project contributes directly to key features of Organic 3.0 of continuous improvement towards best practice, of using the internet and social media, of empowering as well as systematically extracting, evaluating, preserving and renewing tacit knowledge of farmers and farm communities (Arbenz et al, 2017).…”

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Exchanging knowledge to improve organic arable farming: an evaluation of knowledge exchange tools with farmer groups across Europe

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Organic farming is knowledge intensive. To support farmers in improve yields and organic agriculture systems, there is a need to improve how knowledge is shared. There is an established culture of sharing ideas, successes and failures in farming. The internet and information technologies open-up new opportunities for knowledge exchange involving farmers, researchers, advisors and other practitioners. The OK-Net Arable brought together practitioners from regional Farmer Innovation Groups across Europe in a multi-actor project to explore how online knowledge exchange could be improved. Feedback from the groups was obtained for 36 'tools', defined as end-user materials, such as technical guides, videos on websites informing about practices in organic agriculture. The groups also selected one practice to test on farms, sharing their experiences with others through workshops, exchange visits and through videos. Farmers valued the same key elements in face-to-face exchanges (workshops and visits) as in online materials. These were the opportunity for visual observation, deeper understanding of the context in which a practice was being tried and details about what worked and what did not work. Videos, decision support tools and social media can provide useful mechanisms for taking knowledge exchange online, if farmers' experiences and practical implication are shared, and more visual information about the context, economics, successes and failures is provided. Online platforms and forums should not be expected to replace but rather to complement face to face knowledge exchange in improving organic farming.

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“…This development is described by Arbenz et al (2017). The overall goal of Organic 3.0 is to enable a wide-spread uptake of truly sustainable farming systems based on organic principles.…”

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“…Instead of the minimum requirements found in Organic 2.0, Organic 3.0 puts the impact of and on the farming system in the foreground. Arbenz et al (2017) describe the key features of Organic 3.0: (1) a culture of innovation, (2) continuous improvement towards best practice, (3) diverse ways to ensure transparency and integrity, (4) inclusiveness of wider sustainability interests, (5) empowerment from farm to the final consumer, and (6) true value and cost accounting. Rahmann et al (2016) further develop the concept regarding research and list the most important challenges for organic agriculture: (1) producing sufficient healthful, safe and affordable food for 9-11 billion (people), (2) reduction of pollution and greenhouse gas emissions derived from food production, processing, trading, and consumption, (3) developing food chains driven by renewable energy and recycled nutrients, (4) adapting to climate change and mitigating greenhouse gas emissions, (5) protecting soils, water, air, biodiversity, and landscapes, and (6) taking into account current and emerging ethics, food habits, lifestyles, and consumer needs.…”

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Special issue of Organic Agriculture—Organic 3.0

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Rahmann²,

Løes

2017

Org. Agr.

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ORGANIC 3.0—the vision of the global organic movement and the need for scientific support

Cited by 38 publications

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Swedish Consumers’ Perception of Food Quality and Sustainability in Relation to Organic Food Production

Swedish Consumers’ Perception of Food Quality and Sustainability in Relation to Organic Food Production

Exchanging knowledge to improve organic arable farming: an evaluation of knowledge exchange tools with farmer groups across Europe

Special issue of Organic Agriculture—Organic 3.0

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