a) Models of organic certification
b) Emerging consumer consciousness in India: findings of a survey by PGP students
c) Challenges in transition, linkages with biotechnology and biosafetyEssential Readings:
1) Model by-laws of organic certification
- United States Organic Standards
- Codex Organic Production Standards
- National Standards For Organic Production
- IFOAM basic Organic production and processing standards
- IFOAM Organizational Chart
- SKAL EU organic standards
2) Gupta , A. K. Consumer Response to Green Market Opportunities.” Emerging Consumer Consciousness in India about Eco-friendly Produce: Findings of a survey by PGP students of IIMA” (unpublished).
3) DeGregori R.Thomas, 1996, Can Organic Agriculture Feed the World, Priorities For Health, Vol.8, No.4.
www.acsh.org/publications/priorities/ 0804/agriculture.html
4) Factors Influencing Organic Agriculture Policies with a focus on Developing
Countries. Nadia Scialabba
Countries. Nadia Scialabba
http://www.fao.org/organicag/doc/BaselSum-final.doc
Essential Readings:
5) Changing Consumption and Production Patterns: Organic Agriculture. Background paper no. 4, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Commission on Sustainable Development Eight Session, 24 April – 5 May, 2000, New York.
www.un.org/esa/sustdev/csd8/ecn172000-bp4.pdf6) Organic Agriculture Worldwide: A Fast-Growing Reality. www.lightparty.com/Health/OrganicAgricultureWW.html
7) Geier, B.; McNeely, J. A. and Stoiton, S. The Relationship between Nature Conservation, Biodiversity and Organic Agriculture.
www.iucn-ero.nl/whatsnew_files/pdf/ifoam.PDF
www.iucn-ero.nl/whatsnew_files/pdf/ifoam.PDF
