Journal article
Using global organic markets to pay for ecologically based agricultural development in China
Agriculture and human values, Vol.22(1), pp.3-15
03/2005
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/101385
Abstract
The traditional command and control approach and the more recent free market have proven inadequate for promoting ecological agricultural development in China. Organic certification represents a regulated market mechanism with the potential to stimulate ecologically based agricultural research, extension, and investment. Recent linkages between the global organic food industry and local agricultural development in China provide an opportunity to test this potential. The article examines China’s two largest organic certification systems for their potential to promote the adoption of integrated pest management (IPM) as a key component of ecological agriculture. Organic certification is providing a format for research, extension, and implementation of IPM principles and practices, and has the potential to do much more. However, possible contradictions between ecological and market rationality, inherent in organic certification and marketing systems, may be exacerbated by the authoritarian political economy of rural China.
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- Title
- Using global organic markets to pay for ecologically based agricultural development in China
- Creators
- Paul Thiers - Department of Political Science Washington State University–Vancouver 14204 Salmon Creek Avenue Vancouver WA USA 98686-9036
- Publication Details
- Agriculture and human values, Vol.22(1), pp.3-15
- Academic Unit
- Politics, Philosophy and Public Affairs, School of
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers; Dordrecht
- Identifiers
- 99900546678201842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article