Organic farming policy development in the EU: What can multi-stakeholder processes contribute?

Food Policy

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 265-272

  Häring, Anna Maria ^a   Vairo, Daniela ^b   Dabbert, Stephan ^c   Zanoli, Raffaele ^b  

^a University of Applied Sciences Eberswalde   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Multi stakeholder process; Organic farming policy; Policy learning; Policy transfer

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL POLICY; BOTTOM-UP APPROACH; EUROPEAN UNION; FOOD POLICY; ORGANIC FARMING; POLICY DEVELOPMENT; POLICY IMPLEMENTATION; STAKEHOLDER;

EID: 67349279574     PISSN: 03069192     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2009.03.006     Document Type: Article

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