Henderson, J. - Final Resources

I will be citing the following four articles in my paper on EU and US organic markets:

Source #1

Date of Search: October 31, 2009

Topic: CAP and Organic Farming

Location: USDA Economic Research Service (http://www.ers.usda.gov/)

Search Terms: "organic farming and EU"

Citation: Dimitri, Carolyn and Lydia Oberholtzer. "EU and U.S. Organic Markets." Amber Waves 4.1 (2006): 12-19.

Information: This was one of the first articles that I found on the topic of organic markets in the EU and US. It contains statistics on the quantity of land under organic cultivation as well as statistics on retail sales.

Source #2

Date of Search: December 7, 2009

Topic: EU and US Organic Farming

Location: USDA Economic Research Service (http://www.ers.usda.gov/)

Citation: Dimitri, Carolyn and Lydia Oberholtzer. "Market-Let Versus Government-Facilitated Growth: Development of the U.S. and EU Organic Agricultural Sectors." Economic Research Service/USDA WRS-05-05 (2005): 1-26

Information: I was able to find this longer paper written by the same authors of the above paper. It gives more details regarding the differences in the type of policies that have been enacted in the US and EU to support and manage organic agriculture.

Source #3

Date of Search: November 22, 2009

Topic: EU and US Agricultural Policies Organic Agriculture

Location: Google Scholar / Science Direct / Ecological Economics

Citation: Baylis, Kathy. et al. “Agri-environmental policies in the EU and United States: A comparison.” Ecological Economics: 65, 2008. 753-764.

Information: I found this article using Google Scholar and it is an article that my thesis advisor wrote. It contains some interesting information regarding the incentives that the US and EU governments give agricultural producers, specifically those that practice organic farming, in order for them to minimize negative environmental effects.

Source #4

Date of Search: November 22, 2009

Topic: Consumer Markets for Organic Products EU and US

Location: Google Scholar/Science Direct / Trends in Food Science and Technology

Citation: Siderer, Yona, Alain Maquet and Elke Anklam. “Need for research to support consumer confidence in the growing organic food market.” Trends in Food Science and Technology: 16, 2005. 332-343.

Information: This article gives details on what consumers need to know in order to be confident in the organic market.