Country-specific analysis of competitiveness and resilience of organic and low input dairy farms across Europe

Jolien Hamerlinck; Jo Bijttebier; Ludwig Lauwers; Simon Moakes

Country-specific analysis of competitiveness and resilience of organic and low input dairy farms across Europe

Jolien Hamerlinck, Jo Bijttebier, Ludwig Lauwers, Simon Moakes

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Organic (ORG) and low-input (LI) dairy farms may have environmental advantages compared to high-input (HI) farms, but may also be less competitive in economic terms. This paper focuses on resilience in relative profitability of ORG and LI farms compared to HI farms in EU countries. Both a trend and a shock scenario were developed, based on milk and feed prices during 2007-2012. Although LI farms greatly vary among the EU countries, they tend to be more resilient than HI farms when assuming trend conditions. Moreover, they seem less affected by extremely low prices. ORG farms appear even more resilient in comparison with HI and LI farms but this can be explained by the higher revenues from subsidies.

Original language	English
Number of pages	1
Publication status	Published - Oct-2014
Event	18de IFOAM/ISOFAR Organic World Congress - Istanbul, Turkey Duration: 13-Oct-2014 → 15-Oct-2014

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Conference	18de IFOAM/ISOFAR Organic World Congress
Country/Territory	Turkey
City	Istanbul
Period	13/10/14 → 15/10/14

SOLIDS: Sustainable organic low-input dairying
Marchand, F. (ProjectSupervisor), Van Meensel, J. (ProjectSupervisor), Bijttebier, J. (Researcher), Debruyne, L. (Researcher), Hamerlinck, J. (Former PhD Student) & Lauwers, L. (Former Project Manager)
1/04/11 → 31/03/16
Project: Research

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Country-specific analysis of competitiveness and resilience of organic and low input dairy farms across Europe

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SOLIDS: Sustainable organic low-input dairying

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