The Global Organic Agri-Food Market: The Current Trends and Development

Abstract

Nowadays, the organic market is growing more and more. Most people are having a preoccupation of what they eat, and the benefits of their eating habits. Growth domestic product means the total of money spent by businesses and consumers in given period. It is used by economic industry to measure the progress of a country. An economy that is developing and progressing has a higher growth domestic product. On the other hand, the interest of an individual that has already covered his primal needs tends to move towards its wealth, being more careful of what he eats than having concerns of whether it can afford food. At the opposed pole are the countries that have a lower growth domestic product per capita, where it is highly visible that the concern is inclined towards affording any kind of food and not towards food's provenience. This level of interest was mostly reached in countries that have a higher growth domestic product per capita and an educated population. The internal motivation of population sets the trends towards consumption, therefore looking into a country's growth domestic product's rate and wealth, it is visible that where its population has reached a certain level of wealth, the organic market tends to grow also as a response to a higher demand. Therefore, the wealthier a country is the higher the number of organic operators is. This paper aims to analyze this correlation between GDP and the number of organic operators.