Institutional support for the organic farming development – a conceptual framework
Open Access
- 1 February 2019
- journal article
- Published by LLC CPC Business Perspectives in Environmental Economics
- Vol. 9 (4), 50-59
- https://doi.org/10.21511/ee.09(4).2018.05
Abstract
Realization of agricultural production complying with the sustainable development principles has resulted in a separate direction – organic farming. Its big difference from all other economy sectors is in its dependence on the natural and climatic conditions. Therefore, agricultural production has a dual nature, namely it depends on the environment health on the one hand, and, on the other hand, directly affects this health through the use of technologies that can both improve and substantially worsen the environmental situation. The institutional support for the organic farming is of great importance. This issue is relevant for scientists from countries, where organic farming is actively developing. In Ukraine, this is also a topical issue. The paper presents a conceptual framework of institutional support for the organic farming development, which includes elements such as state regulation, self-regulation, objects and subjects of organic farming, as well as an organic product market. Legal, informational, infrastructure and financial directions of ensuring the development of organic farming are also defined. The essence of each element is revealed. The main indicators of the organic farming development in Ukraine are analyzed, i.e. the organic farming areas, their proportion in agricultural lands, the number of producers, the volume of the organic market, the volume of organic consumption per capita, as well as the share of domestic organic land in the world's territory. A correlation analysis based on data from the largest world market of the USA made it possible to determine the factors that have the greatest impact on the development of the organic agricultural sector. The number of organic producers is statistically significant, and the share of land in the organic farming does not have a significant impact on the organic product consumption. At the same time, this can be seen from the point of view that the more producers will offer their products, the more saturated the market will be, and therefore the level of the organic products coverage can be greater.Keywords
This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
- Improvement of the effectiveness of organic farming in UkraineProblems and Perspectives in Management, 2017
- Development of Organic Farming in Europe at the Crossroads: Looking for the Way Forward through System Archetypes LensesSustainability, 2017
- Understanding the development of organic agriculture in Flanders (Belgium): A discourse analytical approachNJAS: Impact in Agricultural and Life Sciences, 2016
- The organic food market: a quantitative and qualitative overview of international publicationsAmbiente & Sociedade, 2015
- Has Organic Farming Potential for Development? Comparative Study in Romania and SerbiaProcedia Economics and Finance, 2015
- The Support of Implementation of Organic Farming in the Slovak Republic in the Context of Sustainable DevelopmentProcedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2014
- Institutional barriers to organic farming in Central and Eastern European countries of the Baltic Sea regionAgricultural and Food Economics, 2013
- Development of standards for organic farming.Published by CABI Publishing ,2007
- The development of governmental support for organic farming in Europe.Published by CABI Publishing ,2007