Market trends for organic or low input foods from marginal pastures
There is increased interest of customers for quality foods produced in environmental friendly agricultural systems that have less chemical residuals and better tastes than foods produced with intensive agriculture (Prache et al.,2005).These foods are actually produced in very similar ways to what was done up to the 2nd world war, that is before the rapid inffusion of intensive agriculture based on high inputs.Currenty organic foods get added values, especially in town markets, and farmers get higher incomes with these quality crops than with larger stocks produced by intensive methods, consequently further inffusion of these foods can contribute to improve social and economical conditions in marginal areas.Moreover, the availability of such quality foods aids in increasing the number of customer‐days in Tuscan agri‐tourism farms with further incomes for farmers.Our research has investigated the changes that have happened in the inffusion and the prices of organic foods in 3 important towns of Tuscany from 2003 to 2007.
quality foods town markets
Longhi F Pardini A
University of Florence-Piazzale Cascine,18-50144 Firenze(I) andrea
国际会议
呼和浩特
英文
2008-06-29（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）