Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/321743 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Citation: 
[Journal:] Bio-based and Applied Economics (BAE) [ISSN:] 2280-6172 [Volume:] 8 [Issue:] 3 [Year:] 2019 [Pages:] 297-323
Publisher: 
Firenze University Press, Florence
Abstract: 
Organic farming is increasingly promoted and supported at several levels for its capability of producing safe food and public goods. It can give an important contribution to attenuating the environmental pressure generated by conventional agriculture. This paper analyses possible determinants of the spatial distribution of organic farms in a rural region of Italy, characterised by several environmental issues. Towards this aim, a quasi-Poisson hierarchical generalised linear model with mixed effects is adopted. Results indicate that there is spatial correlation and that the distribution of organic farming is related to socio-economic, environmental and political factors. In particular, they show that public support could have favoured the spreading of organic farming where there are more problems of erosion but far from the areas where there is intensive agriculture.
Subjects: 
Organic farming
environmental pressures
rural development policy
hierarchical generalised linear mixed model
JEL: 
C25
Q18
Q56
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Document Type: 
Article

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