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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
Part of the book series: The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics (LEAF, volume 22)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Overview and Foundations
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Standards and Certification
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Markets and Consumers
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The Interplay of Conventional and Organic
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Re-thinking Ethics in the Organic Movement
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About this book
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.
Keywords
- Adoption of Organic Dairy Systems
- Consumers’ Interpretations
- Enacting Organic Standards Through Certification
- Feeding the World
- Globalization and Organic Food
- Markets and Consumers
- Organic Agriculture
- Organic Conventionalization Debate
- Organic Farmers
- Organic Farming
- Organic Packaging
- Philosophical Perspectives
- Post-National Organic
- Social Movements
- Standards and Certification
- “Organic” and “Local”
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Sustainable Agricultural Systems, Division of Organic Farming,, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Vienna, Austria
Bernhard Freyer
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Department of Community Sustainability,, Michigan State University,, East Lansing, USA
Jim Bingen
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Re-Thinking Organic Food and Farming in a Changing World
Editors: Bernhard Freyer, Jim Bingen
Series Title: The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9190-8
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-017-9189-2Published: 03 November 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0630-6Published: 11 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-9190-8Published: 17 October 2014
Series ISSN: 1570-3010
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1737
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 329
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: Ethics, Sustainable Development, Economic Geography, Quality of Life Research