Economic Performance of Organic Farms in Europe

By F. Offermann, H. Nieberg. 2000

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• Soil Fertility and Biodiversity in Organic Farming (2002, background): “Profits of organic farms in Europe are similar to those of comparable conventional farms (9).”
• The Moral Economy Is a Double-edged Sword: Explaining Farmers’ Earnings and Self-exploitation in Community-Supported Agriculture (2013, background): “However, political economists have made little effort to demonstrate these economic rents empirically, which leaves the wide variation in the profitability of organic farms (cf. Offermann and Nieberg 2000) largely unexplained.”
• Lower average yields but similar yield variability in organic versus conventional horticulture. A meta-analysis (2017, background): “We first listed the references mentioned in review papers (Stanhill 1990; Offermann and Nieberg 2000; Pretty and Hine 2001; Kaval 2004; Badgley et al. 2007; Seufert et al. 2012).”
• Conversion to Organic Farming: A Typical Example of the Diffusion of an Innovation? (2001, background): “On the basis of an extensive review of comparative economic studies of organic farming in Europe Offermann and Nieberg (2000) concluded that, on average, the decision to convert to organic farming had proven to be financially successful.”
• COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF ORGANIC AND NON-ORGANIC FARMING SYSTEMS: A CRITICAL ASSESSMENT OF FARM PROFITABILITY (2009, background): “Offermann and Nieberg (2000) calculated that for 2 Larson, Kliebenstein and Honeyman (2002) explained that in the case of organic pork production, a constant premium encourages over-production of summer farrowed pigs (when costs are much less) and thus, a seasonal premium is much to be preferred to…”
• Exploring the ‘limits to growth’ in UK organics: beyond the statistical image (2004, background): “…value of organic foods have been showing double-digit annual growth rates throughout the past decade (see, for instance, Lampkin et al., 1997; Offermann and Nieberg, 2000; Miele, 2001), as a basis for optimism in retail markets the data presented in Tables 1 and 2 seem, on the whole, to be…”
• Marketing U.S. Organic Foods: Recent Trends From Farms to Consumers (2009, background): “For example, organic grain yields in the early 2000s were about 60-70 percent of conventional grain yields (Offermann and Nieberg, 2000).”