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Abstract
There has been little systematic analysis of
the extent to which organic farming policies have influenced
growth in the organic sector. Analyses of organic
farming policy instruments, for the most part, provide
extensive and detailed reviews of instruments applied either
in a single country or across countries. Hence, there
is a great need to examine systematically whether there
is a relationship between the introduction of organic
farming policies and the growth of the organic food sector,
and whether particular designs of organic farming
policies are more effective than others. In this paper, we
take the first step in the endeavour of analysing the effects
of organic farming by undertaking an econometric
analysis of the relationship between organic farming
policies in Denmark and the UK and their effects on the
number of farmers and growers converting to organic
production.