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Zur Methodik der Energiebilanzierung von Biokraftstoffen

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Crop production is a conversion process of sun energy into biomass. Both the cultiva-tion area and the insolation stroking this area limit the energy output of the globe. Thus, food and energy crop production compete for insolation and area. LCA (ISO 14040) was developed for industrial products. Use of LCA in the field of organic farm-ing neglects usually input of sun energy, cultivation area and other basic inputs like precipitation, wind, the geochemical cycle, genetic information and propagation.

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• Ciencias›Agricultura y Zoología

Public policies and food security and family farming networks: contributions to the construction of effectiveness indicators.

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This work presents a methodology for investigating the performance of public politics regarding food security networks formed in Brazilian municipalities aimed at increasing income and employment in familiar farming. These programs need to further develop the methodologies used for studying their efficiency so that they can reach a new stage in the improvement and use of management tools thereby achieving beteer results of social inclusion and/or food security. This paper constitutes a first effort to bring together indicators for the evaluation of the efficiency of public politicies.

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• Ciencias›Agricultura y Zoología

Assessment of food safety in organic farming

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Public concern about food safety in Europe has grown in response to the BSE scandal and problems with Salmonella and Campylobacter, etc. Such health and safety considerations are among the most important incentives for buying organic food, and have helped to promote rapid growth in the organic sector. Against this background the present article reviews food safety from an organic perspective. To our knowledge this has not been done previously. A novel definition is introduced which incorporates safety aspects of both the product and the agri-food-system.

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• Ciencias›Agricultura y Zoología

Empirical research of attitudes towards organic food among Croatian consumers

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Organic agriculture is a holistic production system, which sustains the natural soil activity, ecosystem and people. This new system is an answer by organic producers to unsustainability of capital intensive agriculture, characterized by mass production, specialization, product standardization and high labour productivity that results in a weaker relation of agriculture to natural conditions and many negative consequences, especially in ecological, social and economic spheres. Development of organic production enabled development of the organic food market.

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• Ciencias›Agricultura y Zoología

Research on organic food purchase in Croatia

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This paper presents research findings based on the research conducted on a representative sample of respondents using a highly structured questionnaire. The fi rst part of the paper focuses on the theoretical background and overview of the research results related to the research problem in the world and in Croatia. The results of the research which has been conducted indicate that respondents are not familiar with the definition of organic food. Furthermore, the paper elaborates on the Croatian consumers’ perception of organic food and conventional food.

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• Ciencias›Agricultura y Zoología

Survival and transmission of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium in an outdoor organic pig farming environment

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It was investigated how organic rearing conditions influence the Salmonella enterica infection dynamics in pigs and whether Salmonella persists in the paddock environment. Pigs inoculated with S. enterica serovar Typhimurium were grouped with Salmonella-negative tracer pigs. Bacteriological and serological testing indicated that organic pigs were susceptible to Salmonella infections, as 26 of 46 (56%) tracer pigs turned culture
positive.

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• Ciencias›Agricultura y Zoología

Penicillium verrucosum occurrence and Ochratoxin A contents in organically cultivated grain with special reference to ancient wheat types and drying practice

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This study addresses the relationship between the ochratoxigenic strains of Penicillium verrucosum and ochratoxin A (OTA) contents in organically cultivated grain. It included 37 combined, non-dried grain samples from farmers with no drying facilities as well as 19 non-dried and 22 dried samples from six farms with on-farm drying facilities (Case studies 1-6). The study focused on the ancient wheat type spelt but also included samples of wheat, rye, barley, oats, triticale, emmer, and einkorn. All 78 samples were analysed for moisture content (MC) and occurrence of P. verrucosum.

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• Ciencias›Agricultura y Zoología

Consumer Willingness-To-Pay for Different Organic Certification Logos in Turkey

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Using data from focus group discussions with consumers and a choice experimentconducted in some of Turkey’s major cities, this study investigates whetherTurkish consumers prefer certain organic labelling schemes over others attemptsand to elicit their willingness to pay (WTP) for different organic certificationlogos. Although the level of awareness regarding organic certification logos waslow, consumers’ perceptions of the logos were generally positive.

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• Ciencias›Agricultura y Zoología

Umsetzung von Agrarumweltmassnahmen auf Bio- und konventionellen Betrieben der Schweiz

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The willingness of farmers to adopt agri-environmental measures depends greatly on the farm type and management as well as on the geographic conditions of the farm.
The present paper analyses the differences in uptake of agri-environmental measures between organic and non-organic farms. A statistical comparison based on the 2005 Swiss Farm Census showed that organic farms have on average 68% higher adoption rates than non-organic farms, with a mean level of 22% on organic and 13% on nonorganic farms.

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• Ciencias›Agricultura y Zoología

The trade-off between scope and precision in sustainability assessments of food systems

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With sustainability becoming an increasingly important issue, several tools have been developed, promising to assess sustainability of farms and farming systems. However, looking closer at the scope, the level of assessment and the precision of indicators used for impact assessment we discern considerable differences between the sustainability impact assessment tools at hand. The aim of this paper is therefore to classify and analyse six different sustainability impact assessment tools with respect to the assessment level, the scope and the precision.

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• Ciencias›Agricultura y Zoología