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Practical Resources
- Cultivating a Movement: An Oral History Series on Sustainable Agriculture and Organic Farming on California's Central Coast
- University of California - Santa Cruz
- University of California - Santa Cruz
- Farm Activities Associated with Rural Development Initiatives
- USDA. 2012
- The Farmer's Filmanac: Farmer-to-Farmer Knowledge Sharing
- U.S. Organic Hotspots and their Benefit to Local Economies: Hotspot Identification, Formation, Impacts, and Policy Recommendations [PDF – 1.4 MB]
- Organic Trade Association. 2017
Scientific Results
Communities
- Can organic and resource-conserving agriculture improve livelihoods? A synthesis
- International Journal of Sustainable Agriculture (2013) 11: 193-215
- Cultivating Institutions: Organic Agriculture and Integrative Economic Choice
- Society and Natural Resources (2011) 24: 455-468
- Society and Natural Resources (2011) 24: 455-468
- Does organic farming present greater opportunities for employment and community development than conventional farming? A survey-based investigation in California and Washington
- Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems (2017) eArticle:1-21
- Economic and social impacts of organic production systems
- Canadian Journal of Plant Science (2007) 87: 1037-1044
- Farm-scale models built with farmers converting and converted to organic farming
- Agronomy for Sustainable Development (2013) 33: 609-619
- Food networks: collective action and local development. The role of organic farming as boundary object
- Organic Agriculture (2015) 5: 235-243
- Happy Growers! Relationship quality in the German organic apply chain
- International Food and Agribusiness Management Review (2014) 17: 205-233
- Hot Spots and Spatial Autocorrelation in Certified Organic Operations in the United States
- Agricultural and Resource Economics Review (2016) 45: 485-521
- Leveraging the Local: Cooperative Food Systems and the Local Organic Food Co-ops Network in Ontario, Canada
- Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems and Community Development (2014) 4: 47-60
- Modelling worker physical health and societal sustainability at farm level: An application to conventional and organic dairy farming
- Agricultural Systems (2007) 94: 205-219
- Organic Agriculture for Sustainable Livelihoods
- Organic Eprints. 2013
- Organic Solutions? Gender and Organic Farming in the Age of Industrial Agriculture
- Capitalism, Nature, Socialism (2011) 22: 100-118
- The role of US organic certifiers in organic hotspot formation
- Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems (2016) 31: 214-229
- Social identification, social representations, and consumer innovativeness in an organic food context
- Food Quality and Preference (2010) 21: 347-352
- Social media mediated interaction with peers, experts and anonymous authors: Conversation partner and message framing effects on risk perception and sense-making of organic food
- Food Quality and Preference (2016) 56: 107-118
- The socioeconomic geography of organic agriculture in the United States
- Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems (2017) 41: 1162-1184
- Tourism and Willing Workers on Organic Farms: a collision of two spaces in sustainable agriculture
- Journal of Cleaner Production (2016) 111: 421-429
- Why working conditions are a key issue of sustainability in agriculture? A comparison between agroecological, organic and conventional vegetable systems
- Journal of Rural Studies (2017) 56: 53-64
- Will work for food: agricultural interns, apprentices, volunteers, and the agrarian question
- Agriculture and Human Values (2016) 33: 705-720
- Workload on organic and conventional family farms in Switzerland
- Organic Agriculture (2016) 6: 225-242
History
- Do the new organic producers differ from the ‘old guard’? Empirical results from Norwegian dairy farming
- Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems (2006) 21: 174-182
- A history of organic farming: Transitions from Sir Albert Howard’s War in the Soil to USDA National Organic Program
- Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems (2006) 21: 143-150
Knowledge and education
- Adoption of organic farming: Are there differences between early and late adoption?
- Organic Eprints. 2013
- Broadening the Education Infrastructure in Organic Agriculture for Farmers [PDF - 245 kB]
- Plant Management Network. 2006
- Buying local organic food: a pathway to transformative learning
- Agriculture and Human Values (2010) 27: 401-413
- Comparing attitudes and characteristics of organic, former organic and conventional farmers: Evidence from Ireland
- Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems (2013) 28: 329-337
- Comparison of Management Styles in Organic and Conventional Farming with Respect to Disruptive External Influences. The Case of Organic Dairy Farming and Conventional Horticulture in the Netherlands
- Journal of Sustainable Agriculture (2012) 36: 893-907
- Conversion to organic farming: a multidimensional research object at the crossroads of agricultural and social sciences: A review
- Agronomy for Sustainable Development (2009) 29: 97-112
- Coverage of organic agriculture in North American newspapers: Media: linking food safety, the environment, human health and organic agriculture
- British Food Journal (2010) 112: 710-722
- Diffusion of food policy in the U.S.: The case of organic certification
- Food Policy (2016) 61: 80-91
- Evaluating Research beyond Scientific Impact - How to Include Criteria for Productive Interactions and Impact on Practice and Society
- Organic Eprints. 2014
- Experiential Learning through Partnership: A Case Study of a Collaborative, Hands-on Program to Teach High School Students Organic Farming
- HortTechnology (2013) 23: 376-381
- Farmers adoption of integrated crop protection and organic farming: Do moral and social concerns matter?
- Ecological Economics (2011) 70: 1536-1545
- Farmers’ reasons for deregistering from organic farming
- Organic Agriculture (2012) 2: 103-116
- How organic farmers view their own practice: results from the Czech Republic
- Agriculture and Human Values (2010) 27: 277-290
- Keeping the Actors in the Organic System Learning: The Role of Organic Farmers’ Experiments
- Sustainable Agriculture Research (2015) 4: 140-148
- Long-term strategies and flexibility of organic farmers in southeastern France
- International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability (2010) 8: 305-318
- Maintaining Trust and Credibility in a Continuously Evolving Organic Food System
- Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics (2015) 28: 767-787
- ‘Milk is Milk’: Organic Dairy Adoption Decisions and Bounded Rationality
- Sustainability (2013) 5: 5416-5441
- Organic Farming and Small-Scale Farmers: Main Opportunities and Challenges
- Ecological Economics (2017) 132: 144-154
- Organic Farming in West Virginia: A Behavioral Approach
- Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems and Community Development (2014) 4: 155-171
- Participatory organic research in the USA and Italy: Across a continuum of farmer–researcher partnerships
- Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems (2017) 32: 331-348
- The rationalization and persistence of organic food beliefs in the face of contrary evidence
- Journal of Cleaner Production (2016) 140: 1007-1013
- Socioeconomic Obstacles to Establishing a Participatory Plant Breeding Program for Organic Growers in the United States
- Sustainability (2010) 2: 73-91
- Supporting Innovation in Organic Agriculture: A European Perspective Using Experience from the SOLID Project
- Sustainable Agriculture Research (2015) 4: 32-41
- To certify or not to certify? Separating the organic production and certification decisions
- Food Policy (2014) 49: 429-436
- Transferring the science of organic agriculture through accessible written and oral communication
- Organic Eprints. 2014
- Organic Eprints. 2014
Social ecology
- Associations of Organic Produce Consumption with Socioeconomic Status and the Local Food Environment: Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA)
- PLoS ONE (2013) 8(7): e69778
- Between Ideals and Reality: Development and Implementation of Fairness Standards in the Organic Food Sector
- Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics (2014) 27: 43-63
- Can organic farmers be ‘good farmers’? Adding the ‘taste of necessity’ to the conventionalization debate
- Agriculture and Human Values (2013) 30: 429-441
- Development of Organic Farming in Europe at the Crossroads: Looking for the Way Forward through System Archetypes Lenses
- Sustainability (2017) 9: 821
- Do organic farmers feel happier than conventional ones? An exploratory analysis
- Ecological Economics (2014) 103: 38-43
- Exploring the social value of organic food: a qualitative study in France
- International Journal of Consumer Studies (2014) 38: 228-237
- How social capital influences health community members' adoption of organic foods
- British Food Journal (2013) 115: 1564-1582
- Ideological Challenges to Changing Strategic Orientation in Commodity Agriculture
- Journal of Marketing (2014) 78: 103-119
- Impact of marketing channels on perceptions of quality of life and profitability for Wisconsin's organic vegetable farmers
- Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems (2015) 30: 428-438
- Institutionalisation of Social Movements: A Comparative Perspective on Organic Agriculture Organisations in Denmark and Japan
- Organic Eprints. 2014
- “Loyals” and “Optimizers”: Shedding Light on the Decision for or Against Organic Agriculture Among Swiss Farmers
- Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics (2012) 25: 365-376
- Organic farmers’ motivations and challenges for adopting conservation agriculture in Europe
- Organic Agriculture (2016) 6: 281-295
- The Organic Food Philosophy: A Qualitative Exploration of the Practices, Values, and Beliefs of Dutch Organic Consumers Within a Cultural–Historical Frame
- Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics (2013) 26: 439-460
- Sweet taste of prosocial status signaling: When eating organic foods makes you happy and hopeful
- Appetite (2018) 121:348-359
- Typology of organic management styles in a cash-crop region using a multi-criteria method
- Organic Agriculture (2016) 6: 155-169
- Use of conservation practices by women farmers in the Northeastern United States
- Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems (2014) 29: 65-82
- Voluntary standards, certification, and accreditation in the global organic agriculture field: a tripartite model of techno-politics
- Agriculture and Human Values (2017) 34: 1-14