Ebook: Organic Farming: Policies and Prospects

Stephan Dabbert is Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics and in October 2002 became Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture, at the University of Hohenheim in Stuttgart, Germany. He was co-ordinator of the EU-funded project ‘Organic Farming and the CAP’ which was a major effort to analyse organic farming policy within the European Union, Switzerland and Norway. He acts as an adviser to the EU Commission and the German Federal Government on organic farming policy issues, and has published widely in the area of organic farming, agri-environmental policy and water protection. He is the editor of the book series Organic Farming in Europe: Economics and Policy.
Anna Maria Häring is a researcher at the Institute of Farm Economics at the University of Hohenheim in Stuttgart, Germany. She participated in the interdisciplinary EU Project ‘Organic Farming and the Common Agricultural Policy’. Her PhD was on the relationship between EU agricultural policy, farm economics and organic farming. She has published many articles and contributed to several books.
Raffaele Zanoli is Professor of Agro-Food Marketing at the Polytechnic University of Marche, Italy. He is currently president of the Italian Research Group in Organic Farming (GRAB-IT) and has participated in many EU-funded research projects on organic farming. In 1996 he was appointed Coordinator of the FAO Working Group on Research Methodologies in Organic Farming. He has published over a hundred articles on agricultural economics, marketing and policy.
The authors continue their collaboration as partners in the EU-funded project ‘Further Development of Organic Farming Policy in Europe with Particular Emphasis on EU Enlargement’.