Organic Farming in UK Law
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Interest-group capacities and infant industry development: State-sponsored growth in organic farming
Both interest-group and public-policy scholars accept that groups are important to policy formulation and implementation because they hold valuable capacities. However, the literature has not dealt...
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Scaling as an Organizational Method: Ethnographic Explorations of Two Danish Sustainability Organizations
Organization studies have shown limited interest in the part that scaling plays in organizational responses to climate change and sustainability. Moreover, while scales are viewed as central to the...... ... - tions at the heart of the climate change problematic – one in organic farming, the other in renewable energy – and, employingwhat the authors ... ...
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Policy networks and policy change in organic agriculture: a comparative analysis of the UK and Ireland
This paper takes a comparative case–study approach, located within the literature on policy networks, to organic agriculture policy in the United Kingdom and Ireland since the late 1980s. An examin...... ... 2078/92) provides the basis for organic subsidy schemes. In both Ire- land and the UK, aid for organic farming has been provided under pro- grammes introduced in 1994: the UK Organic Aid Schemes (replaced by the Organic Farming Schemes, OFS, in 1999), ... ...
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In this Issue
... ... and Infant Industry Development: State-sponsored Growth in Organic Farming’. The key question in this article is whether, and how , ... ...
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Environmental Policy Performance Revisited: Designing Effective Policies for Green Markets
Studies of environmental policy performance tend to concentrate on the impact of particular policy institutions or of single policy instruments. However, environmental policies most often consist o...... ... and tested in a comparative analysis of the performance of organic food policies in Denmark,Sweden, the UK and the US, focusing on their ... Organic farming provides environmentalbenefits through the non-use of pesticides and less ... ...
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Enhancing availability of learning resources on organic agriculture and agroecology
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to describe the provision of existing learning object repositories with enhanced forms of describing digital resources on organic agriculture and agroecology. ...... ... IntroductionOrganic farming is a form of agriculture aimed at efficiently producing food whilerespecting the environ ment and preserving Ear th’s natural fertility ... ...
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Apple farm management practices in the Northeastern US and Northern China
Purpose: – The purpose of this study is to compare the different pesticides management practices and productions in three apple farms in the Northeastern US and Northern China. Design/methodology/...... ... The organic applefarm aims at minimizing environmental impact and protecting ... , Northern China apples, Kaolin clay, Vertical axis systems, Farming sustainability,Agriculture, Pesticides, China, United States of ... ...
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ASSESSING POLICY DIVERGENCE: HOW TO INVESTIGATE THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN A LAW AND A CORRESPONDING REGULATION
Policy designs are selected to achieve specific policy outcomes. The policy process, however, contains multiple junctures when a policy's design may diverge from its original intents. Despite this ...... ... The case analysed is US organic food policy in the 1990 Organic Foods Production Act and 2002 National ... suspicion of detrimental impacts resulting from conventional farming practices motivated consumer interest (V os 2000; Baker 2005). A ... ...
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Shared assets: inclusiveness, agroecology and municipal ownership in land use.
... ... as possible, whether in new urban developments or industrial farming. For local authorities, it is commonly seen purely as an asset on the ... This is an umbrella term that encompasses organic farming, permaculture, and regenerative farming - describing farming ... ...
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Policy networks and the GM crops issue: assessing the utility of a dialectical model of policy networks
A dialectical model of policy networks is deployed to analyse policy change in the area of GM crops in the UK. The model uses an analysis of the interaction between agents and structure, network an...... ... policy making was limited almo st wholly to the biotechnology and farming industry – based around the Mi nistry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food ... of the Earth, Greenpeace and the Soil Association (representing organic farmers) and Action Aid, who criticiz e the potential impact of GM crops ... ...
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