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 Social dimensions affecting the development of organic agriculture:

Knowledge, gender and stakeholder relations in the initiation and implementation of organic farming, Canterbury 1996-1997.

Table of Contents

• Credits
• 1. Introduction
  • 1.1 Key objectives , 1.2 Key definitions , 1.3 Structure of paper
• 2. The development of organic agriculture in New Zealand
• 3. The case of organic agriculture in Canterbury
  • 3.1 Overview of the study area
    • 3.1.1 Geology and climate , 3.1.2 Conventional farming systems, 3.1.3 Recent political and economic events
  • 3.2 Organic agriculture in Canterbury
    • 3.2.1 Developments in Canterbury’s organic agriculture, 3.2.2 Stakeholder groups in the Canterbury organics industry
• 4. The research process
  • 4.1 Origins of study design
  • 4.2 Review of literature
  • 4.3 Finding out how stakeholders learn about organics and implement organic farming practices
  • 4.4 Exploring how stakeholders accessed and maintained definitions of organics
  • 4.5 Identifying barriers to the adoption of organic agriculture and facilitating ways of dealing with these
• 5. Results
  • 5.1 Producers’ knowledge and implementation of organic farming practices
    • 5.1.1 Learning about organics: Processes and information
      • Figure 1 - A process of learning about organic farming
      • Figure 2 - Contexts shaping the learning process for organic farming
      • Table 1 - Producers’ use of information about organics, December 1996
      • Figure 3 - Gender patterns of information use: Source of organic information by relative frequency, December 1996
    • 5.1.2 The practice of organic farming
  • 5.2 Community participation in the adoption of organic farming practices
    • 5.2.1 Definitions of organics
    • 5.2.2 Actions affecting the adoption of organic farming practices
  • 5.3 Facilitating further adoption of organic farming practices
    • 5.3.1 What information was transferred?
    • 5.3.2 What issues were raised?
    • 5.3.3 How have the findings been utilised?
• 6. Conclusions and policy implications
  • 6.1 Expanding understandings of the social dimensions of organic agriculture
  • 6.2 Policy implications
    • 6.2.1 Farm level considerations
  • 6.2.2 Industry and community level considerations
• References
• Appendix 1 - A summary of reviewed literature

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