Exploring the ‘limits to growth’ in UK organics: beyond the statistical image

By Everard Smith, T. Marsden. 2004

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Subfields: Ecology, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Plant Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Local versus organic: A turn in consumer preferences and willingness-to-pay (2010, unknown): “…farm-worker welfare, animal welfare, land stewardship, resource conservation, preservation of heritage breeds and sustainability are no longer strongly associated with organic foods 14 both in the US 19 and abroad (e.g., Ireland 16 , Great Britain 36,37 , Australia and New Zealand 38,39 ).”
• Ecological Citizenship and Sustainable Consumption: Examining Local Organic Food Networks. (2006, unknown): “This evidence indicates that there appears to be scope in this organisational structure and growth of direct marketing to avoid the limits to growth experienced by other parts of the developing organic sector identified by Smith and Marsden (2004) and Renting et al. (2003).”
• Conventionalisation of organic farming practices: from structural criteria towards an assessment based on organic principles. A review (2011, unknown): “Smith and Marsden (2004) point out that the over-supply of some organic products (e.g., milk) has led to a ‘farm-based cost-price squeeze’ in the UK, which might be forcing farmers into progressively more intense production strategies.”
• The 'Conventionalisation' thesis reconsidered: structural and ideological transformation of Australian organic agriculture (2005, background): “As with conventional agriculture, organic farmers who resist subsumption in this manner risk losing comparative advantage and market share to other producers as organic farming is subjected to the same cost-price squeeze as conventional agriculture (Guthman 2004b; Smith and Marsden 2003).”
• Exploring the gap between attitudes and behaviour: understanding why consumers buy or do not buy organic food (2005, background): “Although demand for organic food is still buoyant, there are signs that markets are maturing and growth rates over the last few years have slowed to below 10 per cent (Firth et al., 2004; MINTEL, 2003; Organic Monitor, 2001; Organic Monitor, 2002; Smith and Marsden, 2004; SA, 1999).”
• Determination of the surplus that consumers are willing to pay for an organic wine. (2005, background): “Consumption habits in society today are changing and the latest tendencies show a greater concern for health and environment (Martínez-Carrasco et al., 2004; Smith and Marsden, 2004).”