Organic farms in the EU: status quo, development strategies and policy impacts on selected arable and dairy farms

Haring, A

Organic farms in the EU: status quo, development strategies and policy impacts on selected arable and dairy farms - 2002 - Farm Management 11(6) October 2002, 387-397(6) .

Organic farming is increasingly considered in the European Common Agricultural Policy, Sound evaluations of the effects of policy measures on organic farms in the EU are needed to face the challenges in future policy design. The effects of various policy scenarios on profitablity and development strategies of typical organic arable and dairy farms are analysed for the EU countries, Germany, Denmark, the United Kingdom and Italy. For each policy scenario potential farm adaption strategies are forecast.


ORGANIC FARMING
COMMON AGRICULTURAL POLICY
DAIRY FARMS
ARABLE FARMS