Policies supporting organic food and farming in the EU: assessment and development by stakeholders in 11 European countries.

摘要

Bottom-up approaches to policy design and broad debate among stakeholders facilitate policy learning and innovation. A novel bottom-up policy design process involving stakeholders was tested at a large international effort for the development of policies for organic food and farming, which took place in May 2004 in Europe. Views from 11 European countries (Austria, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark, Estonia, UK, Hungary, Italy, Poland, SIovenia) on the current situation regarding policies related to the organic food market in Europe were considered and policy recommendations for the development of the organic food and farming sector formulated. Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of policies related to the organic food market were identified and policy instruments to address these aspects were developed.