Certification and Labelling of Organic Products in Poland

• Autorzy: Alina Landowska
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

Organie farming is a growing reality all over the world. The development of the organie food sector has rapidly inereased in recent years. It can be said that the organie trade is now entering a booming phase. There is an impressive number of organie farms in developed countries: 10,000 in Germany, 20,000 in Austria and, morę than 30,000 organie farms in Italy. But similarly impressive developments can be seen in countries like Uganda (7,000 farms where cotton is cultivated by organie methods) and Mexico (10,000 farmers produce organie coffee). Organie farming in Central and Eastern Europę (CEE) is developing well in Croatia, Estonia, Latvia, Romania, Slovakia and Poland. A change in lifestyle and consumption patterns - searching for a better way of nutrition - was a starting point for the establishment of organie ideas [An Overview and Facts..., 2003]. Unfortunately, there is still too little consumer interest in organie Products. In most cases, such interest is supported morę by personal health concerns than worries about environmental damage. For instance, health consciousness is the main motive for purchasing organie foodstuffs in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland [An Overview and Facts..., 2003]. Another problem is that a large number of people do not realise what "organie" really means. Thus, it can be stated that organie production in CEE countries has developed around export needs. It thus seems to be obvious that the prices of products are kept too high for local market consumers. (fragment of text)

Słowa kluczowe

EN

Food market; Ecolabels; Food labeling; Organic food

PL

Rynek żywności; Etykiety ekoproduktów; Oznakowanie produktów spożywczych; Żywność ekologiczna

• Czasopismo: Economic and Environmental Studies
• Rocznik: 2004
• Numer: Vol. 6
• Strony: 303--310

Twórcy

autor

Alina Landowska

• Gdansk University of Technology, Poland

Bibliografia

• An Overview and Facts on worldwide Organic Agriculture, http://www.ifoam.org/over&factsoa.html, April 2003.
• Data published on the website of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, 1999.
• Ekoland Co. data.
• Dziennik Ustaw, Act on Ecological Agriculture from 16111 March 2001, No. 38, Ite. 452, 2001.
• Organic Europe, www.organic-europe.net, March 2003.