Organic Food Needs More Land and Direct Energy to Be Produced Compared to Food from Conventional Farming: Empirical Evidence from the Czech Republic

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture11090813" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture11090813</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/agriculture11090813" target="_blank" >10.3390/agriculture11090813</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Organic Food Needs More Land and Direct Energy to Be Produced Compared to Food from Conventional Farming: Empirical Evidence from the Czech Republic

Original language description

This study investigated direct energy consumption and land performance under two different methods of farming-organic and conventional. The aim of our study was to examine the performance of farmers in the Czech Republic and identify the differences between organic and conventional farming regarding food safety and direct energy consumption. Based on the data from the Farm Accountancy Data Network of the EU, we measured the performance of both organic and conventional farmers in terms of product per unit of land and direct energy consumption per unit of product regarding the natural condition of the farm localization. Our findings show that organic farms produce lower output with less direct energy per unit of land; however, they need more direct energy for one unit of production. We found that a product from organic agriculture consumes 1.7-fold greater direct energy than a conventional product. The worse the natural conditions for farming, the broader the difference between organic and conventional regimes regarding their performance and energy consumption. Our conclusions may help shape agricultural policy in the Czech Republic, where organic farming is receiving systematic political support, leading to an increase in the proportion of organically farmed arable land.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50204 - Business and management

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Agriculture

ISSN

2077-0472

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

11

Issue of the periodical within the volume

9

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

19

Pages from-to

813

UT code for WoS article

000699379900001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85115751346