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Re-Thinking Organic Food and Farming in a Changing World

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  • © 2015

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  • Offers new perspectives on enduring issues related to organic food and farming
  • Provides insight into organic issues in a broad range of countries from Europe, North America, Africa, New Zealand and Asia (Indonesia/Japan) and Australia.
  • Covers a wide range of social science issues related organic food and farming?
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Overview and Foundations

  2. Markets and Consumers

  3. The Interplay of Conventional and Organic

  4. Re-thinking Ethics in the Organic Movement

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This book is based on the assumption that “organic has lost its way”.  Paradoxically, it comes at a time when we witness the continuing of growth in organic food production and markets around the world. Yet, the book claims that organic has lost sight of its first or fundamental philosophical principles and ontological assumptions. The collection offers empirically grounded discussions that address the principles and fundamental assumptions of organic farming and marketing practices. The book draws attention to the core principles of organic and offers different clearly articulated and well-defined conceptual frameworks that offer new insights into organic practices. Divided into five parts, the book presents new perspectives on enduring issues, examines standards and certification, gives insights into much-discussed and additional market and consumer issues, and reviews the interplay of organic and conventional farming. The book concludes with a framework for rethinking ethics in the organic movement and reflections on the positioning of organic ethics.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Sustainable Agricultural Systems, Division of Organic Farming,, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Vienna, Austria

    Bernhard Freyer

  • Department of Community Sustainability,, Michigan State University,, East Lansing, USA

    Jim Bingen

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