...Why the government should Subsidize Organic Farming Organic farming is a farming method focused on advancing environmental and ecosystem benefits, as opposed to the external output in farming. It promotes the health of the ecosystem, biodiversity, and the soil biological activity. Government subsidies farmer receive are aimed at promoting healthy and beneficial and responsible farming. To understand why it is crucial for the government to subsidize organic farming, it is good to evaluate the benefits that accrue from organic farming. The aim of this paper is to evaluate the gains achievable if the government was to subsidize organic farming. One of the focuses of most governments is the reduction of greenhouse gases (GHG). A UN framework for climate change is now a key focus for most governments. One way of achieving this is the subsidizing farmers to do organic farming. The aim of doing that is that, by the use of organic farming methods, the increase in greenhouse gases reduces. The essence of this is to reduce the number of energy intensive farming that have a negative impact on farming. In addition, using less energy intensive methods means more saving on the inputs and additional benefits to the farmers. This is important since, over the years, the gains and benefits for farming have reduced. That is because, of among other things, bad weather, and scares of public health. Therefore, promoting a method that will directly benefits the farmer and the environment should...
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...of Organic Agriculture movements as the ‘production system that sustains the health of soils, ecosystems and people. It relies on ecological processes, biodiversity and cycles adapted to local conditions’ with its core principle in achieving high yields without artificial fertilizers and pesticides (IFOAM, 2008). With over 11 million certified hectares of land, the Organic agricultural industry in Australia has received rapid growth in the recent years due to the trend to a more ‘healthy, and environmentally responsible’ consumer culture and a willingness to pay more for their values (Remaud, 2008). In the following years the industry is expect to continue to receive respectable double digit growth. The recent growth in organic produces has translated well into the growing market for organic wine (107% growth during 2010-2012) and it is expected to continue into the future (Mascitelli, 2012). While the average consumer are not so willing to pay the premium for the ‘organic’ label on their wine, research have found that a significant cluster (~14%) of Australians are willing to pay up to a 9% premium for organic wine (Chvyl, 2008). A swot analysis on the market of organic wines is summarised below. Strength | Opportunity | * Strong Growth in organic agriculture * Local product provide a sense community to consumers * Wine is more popular with higher income families who can afford the premium on organic products (Callinan, 2012) | * Organic agriculture continues to...
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...Part A Company Q does not currently have a positive attitude toward social responsibility. They recently closed several stores in higher crime areas. This has eliminated job positions that were held by residents of the area and taken away revenue from the community itself. This is not being socially responsible. The company just started offering a limited selection of health and organic foods despite that the demand from customers has been there for years. They have also made the decision to not donate day old food to the local shelters, opting instead to waste the food by throwing it away. Company Q needs to make several changes in their company behavior in order to become more socially responsible. Part B Company Q closed down several stores in a high crime area due to negative profits. Instead of closing these store locations Company Q should have made a comprehensive evaluation of the business to determine why they weren’t making a profit. This would have allowed them to determine what the issues were, find a way to fix them and turn the stores profitable. Being that the locations are in a high crime area, was there a large amount of theft resulting in the loss of product and income? Were the products and corresponding prices tailored to the surrounding community? For instance, selling higher priced items with brand names versus lower priced generic items in a low income community is going to result in low sales. Part of being socially responsible is being...
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...organic agriculture. According to Best, (2007) “the question as to why humans behave toward the environment is an environmentally friendly or degrading manner has been discussed in the sociological literature for more than 30 years.” (p. 451). Farmers are unable to produce their product and their land has been standing uncultivated in order to reduce the surplus of production. The long-standing concern about the social and environmental sustainability of industrial agriculture has been added to the rising question from dependency on cheap energy derived from fossil fuel. The United States is currently dependent on Industrial Agriculture, switching to Organic Agriculture will benefit the economy and help the environment. Industrial Agriculture Although the United States is currently dependent on industrial agriculture it was somewhat prosperous in accomplishing the goals of maximizing market based production and furnishing brief economic returns, it overlooked many of the unintended negative consequences. The most important recant consequence was the soil and water degradation and the loss of the farmer and the robust rural communities (Kirschenmann, 2009). It compromises the land with abundant use of fertilizers and contaminates the water. This was based on assumptions specifically the trade, technology, and aid could triumphantly address global food shortages and inequities. Woodhouse states (2010) “that the aggregate production achieved by modern agriculture will...
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...Organizational Goals and Objectives Whole food presents a “Declaration of Independence,” (the combined single mission statement) as follows: Our motto — Whole Foods, Whole People, Whole Planet — emphasizes that our vision reaches far beyond just being a food retailer. Our success in fulfilling our vision is measured by customer satisfaction, Team Member excellence and happiness, return on capital investment, improvement in the state of the environment, and local and larger community support. Our ability to instill a clear sense of interdependence among our various stakeholders (those who are interested and benefit from the success of our company) is contingent upon our efforts to communicate more often, more openly, and more compassionately. Better communication equals better understanding and more trust. Whole foods clearly has instilled in its core values the importance of having a balance within their stakeholders which makes whole foods have a inviting nature for all parties involved. Subsequently, the Whole Foods mission statement satisfies the needs of all stakeholders. Although, whole foods does pride that their costumer is their more valued stakeholder. Our customers are the most important stakeholder in our business. Therefore, we go to extraordinary lengths to satisfy and delight our customers. We want to meet or exceed their expectations on every shopping trip. We know that by doing so we turn customers into advocates for whole foods. We guarantee our customers...
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...subsidies. The basic idea of how government subsidies function, the government spends hundreds of millions of dollars to raise farmers incomes by raising the price of certain farm commodities. This increase in price encourages farmers to produce these subsidized commodities in large amounts, while encouraging consumers to buy them in small amounts (Armey, R. K., 1990). The result of producing large amounts while purchased amounts are low creates a surplus. Once a surplus occurs the government spends hundreds of millions of dollars encouraging farmers to discontinue producing the certain commodities, essentially subsidizing farmers not to farm. This policy creates great inefficiency, under the farm law passed in 1985, the Department of Agriculture has paid dairy farmers to kill 1.6 million cows and take five-year vacations from farming. Regulations have been enforced that have led to the squandering of 3 billion oranges, 2 billion lemons and hundreds of millions of pounds of nuts and raisins. It has rewarded crop farmers for leaving idle 61 million acres of farmland—and an area equal to all the territory of Ohio, Indiana and half of Illinois, costing taxpayers $20 billion in taxes and $10 billion in higher food prices (Armey, R. K., 1990). This research paper investigates how...
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...Whole Foods memorandum to: business Policy subject: Whole Foods Case Analysis ------------------------------------------------- date: [ 9/2/2012 ] INTRODUCTION The following is a situational analysis of Whole Foods. I will be explaining the company’s background, current situation, SWOT analysis, key issues and alternatives and my recommendations for the company. CURRENT SITUATION In 1980, Whole Foods Market evolved from a local supermarket that sold natural and health foods in Austin, Texas, into the world’s largest chain of natural and organic foods supermarket. In 2009, the company has sales revenue of $8 billion and in 2010, had 289 stores in the United States, Canada and Great Britain. Over the past 32 years, Whole Foods has become the leader in organic and natural foods throughout the United States, helping the people of the United States become more aware of their food habits.. John Mackey, co-founder and CEO, believed that marketing high quality natural and organic foods to more and more customers in more and more communities would help spread the word that our diets are very important to way we live, allowing people to see how they can enjoy a long, healthy and pleasurable life. Mackey states that he wants Whole Foods to become an international brand synonymous with carrying the highest quality natural and organic foods available and being the best food retailer in every community in which Whole Foods stores were located. He wants Whole Foods to set...
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...Organic foods have become very popular through out the United States. There are many different things that make organic food better, but there are bad things about it as well. I will be telling mostly about the good in organic food. Organic must pass a certain standard to be labeled organic. The food must pass a test given by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Crops have to be grown natural meaning not using any pesticides, artificial fertilizers and irradiation. As for animals they must be on an organic farm and eat organically grown food, they also must have space to be freely and not always stuck in a barn. The biggest thing that animals cannot have is antibiotics or synthetic grown hormones. I choose to talk about why organic is the best option because of many different reasons. Even though organic foods cost more money it is still a good option. There is a lot more you have to do with organic foods and that's why it cost more money. The first being labor cost rising because they are not using chemicals the crops need more care and attention. The workers have to spend more time at work doing harder labor, so they are paying more money for labor then conventional farms. The second reason is the demand of organic food has highly increased since 1997. They can't produce organic food as fast as other foods. If they can't produce organic food fast enough then their is a shortage, instead they have to work harder and longer to meet the demands of organic...
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...Greear 1 Austin Greear English 95 Dr. Sandin 6 June 2013 Organic Food Benefits “Organic Food Consumption is one of the fastest growing segments of U.S. domestic foodstuffs. Sales of organic food and beverages grew from $1 billion in 1990 to $21.1 billion in 2008” (Walter J. Crinnion, ND 4), and is continuing to increase year after year. There has been many studies on the differences between non-organic and organic food, and there is one universal truth. Compared to non-organic food, organic food has better health benefits, according to research, as well as more nutrition, and less pesticides. To determine the health benefits of organic food, researchers used a fruit fly called Drosophila Melanogaster, raised it on organic produce, and tested the overall fly health. “Flies raised on diets made from organically grown produce had greater fertility and longevity. On certain food sources, greater activity and greater stress resistance was additionally observed, suggesting that organic food bestows positive effects on fly health” (Ria Chhabra, Santharam Kolli, Johannes H. Bauer 1). Through this knowledge and several other studies, it is safe to say that organic food has higher levels of nutrients that are essential to the body, as well as higher protein. “Organic food has furthermore been shown to contain lower levels of nitrates, which may explain some of the improved health characteristics of Drosophila raised on organic foods” (Ria Chhabra, Santharam Kolli, Johannes H....
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...Weber’s Restaurant is Ann Arbor, Michigan’s oldest privately owned restaurant. Herman Weber opened his first business in 1937; it started out with as gas station that also served beer and hamburgers. Mr. Weber grew the company from that small business into a multimillion dollar hotel, lounge, and restaurant that his son and grandchildren now operate. The current restaurant was completed in 1962. With family in mind Mr. Weber added a hotel around the restaurant and completed that in 1969. With a lot of hotels you have a restaurant that was built for the hotel or even at the same time. With Weber’s you have a successful restaurant that had a hotel built around it. Weber’s Inn and Restaurant is currently in their 76th year of business. Herman Weber still walks his property everyday at 99 years young. Weber’s offers 5 star dinning in a relaxed and upscale modern setting. The servers are knowledgeable and well dressed. Weber’s Restaurant specializes in Prime Rib, steaks and seafood. The menu often changes based on what is fresh and available. The seafood gets flown in daily from Maine. With Chef Tye you have to be on your toes. He likes to change menus with barely a week’s notice. Chef Tye tries to utilizes organic products in his dishes. For this reason I would mainly use local farmers and ranchers for the bulk of my food purchasing, cultivating relationships with the area growers and ranchers for all of my vegetables, fruits, beef, pork, poultry, and fish. This...
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...The current issue and full text archive of this journal is available at http://www.emeraldinsight.com/0007-070X.htm BFJ 104,8 670 Results from an experimental auction market Unidad de Economõa Agraria, Servicio de Investigacion   Agroalimentaria ± Gobierno de Aragon, Zaragoza, Spain, and  Dpto Gestion de Empresas ± Universidad Publica de Navarra,   Pamplona, Spain Keywords Organic food, Consumer behaviour, Spain Abstract Organic production and its consumption have grown tremendously in recent years. However, in the case of Spain demand still represents only 1 per cent of food expenditure. The main obstacle seems to be that organic food faces problems related to consumers' acceptability; lack of food availability and seasonality make it difficult to establish appropriate retailing outlets; also, higher costs of production and retailer margins jointly may result in higher prices than consumers are willing to pay for organic food attributes. Research studies have mostly elicited consumers' willingness-to-pay (WTP) for organic food through contingent valuation. Alternatively, explores, using an experimental second-price sealed-bid auction, the value that consumers place on organic food and the effect that information included on ecolabel and physical appearance have on their WTP. This methodological approach involves the use of real money and real products, which, in fact, may overcome the hypothetical bias detected in previous studies. Also discusses the effect on...
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...Organic farming is the process by which agriculturists create & cultivate vegetables, dairy products, grains, meat & fruits. The process of organic farming has been brought in to use to preserve water & soil & also to reduce the pollution that can be caused because of faming. Organic farming does not involve any of the conventional farming methods to keep away from the diseases that can occur in the livestock & to control pests in the vegetable or fruit farming & for that matter even fertilizer. Organic farming puts in to use the natural methods to keep away from any harm to the farming. The organic farming differs from the conventional farming in a lot of ways. In conventional farming, synthetic chemicals are made use of to increase the growth of cultivation. However, in organic farming it is preferable to make use of organic wastes & compost in the kind of fertilizers, which may finish up in increasing the nutrients supplied to the plants. To get rid of weeds, conventional farming methods make use of herbicides. On the other hand, organic farming would prefer going in for rotation of the crops that would prevent the particular weed from destroying a plant. Also, organic farmers would prefer going in for hand picking of the weeds or tilling to control the weed growth. To get rid of pests & weeds, a standard farming process would make use of pesticide or pesticides. However, with organic farming, the farmers would prefer making use of birds & some insects that would destroy...
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...Revamp The Organic James Miller DeVry University Revamp The Organic Is the need for organic foods in our society, diets, and health being represented and explained well today? Actually it is in a worse state than ever. The knowledge is out there but it is just floating around with no one to help people really grasp the concept. People are either confused or don’t care because organic food isn’t getting the credit it deserves. Most people will not consider organic foods a life changing diet because they are unaware that when the food is truly organic and fresh it contains all the nutrients our human bodies need; another issue is that some organic foods are being misrepresented by companies that shouldn’t aloud to have organic logos on non-organic food. Ignorance of the things that can help your health is a huge hindrance to the kinds of things organic foods can do to enhance human body health. People can’t eat healthy if they don’t even know what healthy eating is. It is as simple as educating those that are unaware of organic foods impact on a person’s diet. Organic labels slapped onto non-organic food can quickly kill the name organic for the foods that actually are. Companies will often say something is organic either because every product like it already is or just to trick unaware customers into buying what they see. This is so they get all the off guard customers money and thus taking away from the ones that are truly organic but might be more expensive. The real...
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...Eating Meat: Organic Vs. Corn Fed Vs. Grass Fed There are many debates any differing opinions going around, concerning which type of beef—or meat in general, for that matter—is the best for humans to ingest. Having these many6 different opinions and facts floating around makes the average consumer go crazy in the shopping lines. Many people simply want to know what is best for them—the healthiest option for themselves or their family. Finding this information, however, has proven to be quite a difficult task, one that does not seem to be easily completely. Contrary to popular belief, the vast amount of information, views, opinions, and statistics out there, concerning the different types of beef feed actually make the search for the truth more difficult, not easier. The information, what little fact is actually out there, is hard to decipher, due to its complicated nature, and the fact that it looks as though it was written for biologists to understand. The average shopper just wants the facts, in laymen’s terms; however, this is rarely what they find. Unfortunately, what facts they actually find ids obscured by the many opinions and views that have nothing to do with the actual facts. The simple fact remains, though: humans’ bodies are more apt to take-in and digest the type of meat that is more nutritious and able to used the most in our systems—either ads fuel, bone support, vitamins, or minerals. Many consumers now purchase grass-fed or organic beef, thinking...
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..................................... 4 Urban farming in Detroit .................................................................................................... 5 3.1 3.2 SWOT analysis ............................................................................................................ 5 Urban farming projects in Detroit ............................................................................... 8 4 5 Conclusion ........................................................................................................................ 11 Bibliography ..................................................................................................................... 12 2 1 Introduction The term urban farming or agriculture recently pops up in the media. It is mainly applied regarding city development in third world countries, but as well it becomes more often a phenomena taking place in cities of industrial countries. After examining the general characteristics of urban farming, I am going to scrutinize the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of urban agricultural projects taking place in the city of Detroit. The former Motor City has been experiencing a dramatic economic collapse. Hence, because of its urgent need for change, it serves as prime example for urban farming in industrialized countries. Further on, introducing the Earthworks project in...
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