El presente trabajo tiene como propósito, determinar de qué manera la certificación orgánica influye en la exportación de cacao de la Región San Martín en el periodo 2009 – 2018. Mediante la metodología con enfoque mixto, a través de encuestas a especialistas del sector y entrevistas a representantes de empresas exportadoras de productos cacao. Con lo anteriormente se determinó que, la certificación de comercio justo ayuda a los pequeños productores agrícolas a crecer y desarrollarse. Asimismo, la certificación les permite ser reconocidos en el mercado internacional porque les permite a los compradores adquirir de manera segura productos de calidad que cumplen con los estándares sociales, económicos y ambientales. Se recomienda que las empresas y cooperativas traten de diferenciarse no solo por productos con calidad y certificados, sino también por variedades que se puedan obtener a mejores precios y mercados, porque es un commodities y no tiene que depender de la fijación de cotizaciones bursátiles internacionales. De esta forma, al diferenciarse, incluso más productos procesados ​​o poseer más tecnología para diferenciarse, tendrán mayor visibilidad, menor competencia y mayores beneficios. / The purpose of this work is to determine how organic certification influences the export of cocoa from the San Martín Region in the period 2009 - 2018. Through the methodology with a mixed approach, through surveys of sector specialists and interviews with representatives of exporting companies of cocoa products. With the above, it was determined that fair trade certification helps small agricultural producers to grow and develop. Likewise, certification allows them to be recognized in the international market because it allows buyers to safely purchase quality products that meet social, economic and environmental standards. It is recommended that companies and cooperatives try to differentiate themselves not only by quality and certified products, but also by varieties that can be obtained at better prices and markets, because it is a commodity and does not have to depend on the setting of international stock prices. In this way, by differentiating themselves, even more processed products or having more technology to differentiate themselves, they will have greater visibility, less competition and greater benefits. / Tesis

This thesis explores if and how an alternative certification system for agricultural products, the Participatory Guarantee System (PGS), could support small-scale farmers to preserve and promote biocultural and food heritage, linked to the landscape they inhabit, their identity as farmers and traditional knowledge. The PGS has been identified by Slow Food as an efficient low-cost and local 'bottom-up' quality assurance system, in order to develop their Presidia project and to re-embed agricultural productions within their traditional socio-ecological contexts. Small-holder farmers all over the world encounter problems in accessing conventional certification systems because of their complexity and strict quality compliance standards, which tend to marginalize this category of producers. I have critically analyzed the extent to which actors and stakeholders agree with the PGS core principles and if, and how, a well-formulated PGS certification can be regarded as a democratic process which fulfils its broader goals. In order to re-structure society from an agri-food perspective, towards a more democratic governance, the core problem lays in how standards and certifications are formed, assessed and applied. The crux of this study is to examine the degree to which a different type of governance, such as the PGS, can induce democratic and participatory methods of food certification. I have conducted semi-structured interviews with various local actors who belong to the social field of alternative food productions underneath the umbrella of Slow Food. Here I investigate the social dimension, the debate and comprehension of the PGS, and the concept of Governmentality by Foucault, as applied to Presidia. In the thesis I show that the PGS provide social benefits to local communities that undergo this certification process. The PGS is able to contribute to the creation of solidarity among actors within the food system, designing a transparent certification system against the logic of commodification.

This thesis investigates challenges to promoting socially just, locally focused agriculture faced by the organic certification program that now regulates organic farming in British Columbia. This inquiry into how organic certification works is conducted as an institutional ethnography. Institutional ethnography is the methodological foundation of Dorothy Smith’s feminist sociology for people. For the institutional ethnographer, ordinary daily activity is the site for investigation of social organization. Small scale organic farmers who are committed to sustainable, socially and ecologically just agriculture offer a critical standpoint from which to explicate extra-local text mediated ruling relations. This inquiry draws on data from open-ended interviews with farmers and an independent organic certification inspector. From these accounts I begin to address how it is that BC’s organic farming certification program actually enters into and reconstitutes the everyday work of farmers and inspectors. From my findings I argue that corporate interests and a focus on global free trade in organic produce and products increasingly guide the institutional structure of organic certification programs. This in turn moves organic farming out of local, farmer control.

In the last few years the demand for organic products has increased rapidly resulting in a strong growth of the organic industry worldwide. Organic certification is globally used to guarantee that 'organic' labelled produce follow the principles and standards of organic agriculture set by international and national organic certification bodies. Currently the lengthy and complex process of organic certification is entirely paper based and requires multiple access by organic primary producers to the certifying body involving precise data capture and transfer over a long period of time. The paper based organic certification has some significant disadvantages such as being time-consuming, error-prone (in particular transcription errors) and complex. Any improvement of the paper based organic certification process can lead to higher efficiency, lower costs and time savings for primary producers and certifying bodies. Australia is a major supplier of organic produce holding almost half of the organic farmland worldwide. However, Australia?s unique geography provides challenges by means of huge distances and poor rural telecommunication coverage for the sustainable agriculture sector. The disadvantages of the paper based organic certification are this kind of environment more severe. Up until now, there has not been a software solution supporting organic primary producers in their certification process, let alone a mobile software solution. In any case there are many farm management software solutions available but they do not take into account the specific issues in organic agriculture such as soil management, pest control, or fertilisation of land/animals. The Mobile Organic Certification (MobiCert) project was created to overcome these disadvantages focussing on the development of a mobile information portal which can be accessed through mobile Internet using GPRS or 3G technology enabling primary producers access and provision to organic certification related information in field using their mobile phones. The MobiCert project investigates the effectiveness of mobile devices (mobile phones/PDAs) for (some of) the stages of the computerised organic certification, in particular in terms of information access and provision. Designed as a proof-of-concept project the investigation takes place in South Australia targeting the NASAA organic certified primary producers there. The MobiCert project is a pilot project within the SAmCom (Sustainable Agriculture m-Commerce) project framework, which aims to enhance the information access and provision for primary producers through m-Commerce. It is a joint project of the University of South Australia, m.Net, NASAA, e-Cert and the Fraunhofer Institute Using a qualitative approach in a rapid appraisal case study the goals of the MobiCert project are: to create a theoretical model (RuTADIM) for the mobile technology acceptance and diffusion of innovation in remote and rural areas; and to develop and test a prototype mobile information community for organic certification which provides access to data and information related to organic certification, (online and offline) record keeping functionalities, as well as community functionalities for communication and experience exchange of primary producers. The results of the proof-of-concept MobiCert project suggest that organic primary producers can benefit from a mobile information platform to access and provide information in rural and remote areas. The high acceptance of organic primary producer to use the mobile information community indicates the willingness to embrace new technology and solutions in the existing organic certification process. The benefits and acceptance of the MobiCert solution have to bee affirmed in follow on field studies incorporating other issues such as the underlying business models. The contributions of the MobiCert project are two-fold: firstly, it provides a theoretical model (RuTADIM) which gives insights of key influence factors for the acceptance of mobile technology and the diffusion of innovation in rural and remote areas. The RuTADIM model can be foundation for future research projects involving mobile technology rural and remote areas. Secondly, the MobiCert information community displayed the potential of mobile solutions for primary producers in remote and rural areas. The MobiCert platform is a stepping stone for future mobile solution which can build upon this platform.

This thesis investigates challenges to promoting socially just, locally focused agriculture faced by the organic certification program that now regulates organic farming in British Columbia. This inquiry into how organic certification works is conducted as an institutional ethnography. Institutional ethnography is the methodological foundation of Dorothy Smith’s feminist sociology for people. For the institutional ethnographer, ordinary daily activity is the site for investigation of social organization. Small scale organic farmers who are committed to sustainable, socially and ecologically just agriculture offer a critical standpoint from which to explicate extra-local text mediated ruling relations. This inquiry draws on data from open-ended interviews with farmers and an independent organic certification inspector. From these accounts I begin to address how it is that BC’s organic farming certification program actually enters into and reconstitutes the everyday work of farmers and inspectors. From my findings I argue that corporate interests and a focus on global free trade in organic produce and products increasingly guide the institutional structure of organic certification programs. This in turn moves organic farming out of local, farmer control.

The aim of this thesis is to process and evaluate UZEI (MZe) data for organic agricultural produce and sales of the South Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic in 2011, followed by structural and geographic regional analysis, based on the graphical output (production maps, charts and sales diagrams). Analysis involved also current processing capacity and selected sales formats in the region.

El sector agroexportador en el Perú, se caracteriza por estar en constante crecimiento durante varios años consecutivos y uno de los productos que destaca es la palta y por lo cual en el presente estudio se analiza la trazabilidad en las exportaciones de palta fresca de las empresas exportadoras con Certificación Orgánica de la región Lima a Países bajos en el periodo del 2013 al 2019. Este estudio, se basó en una metodología cuantitativa a través de la recopilación de datos secundarios de CBS Netherlands, Ministerio de Agricultura del Perú, FAOstats, AdexData Trade, Euromonitor y el Banco Mundial, también, la interpretación de entrevistas realizadas a expertos para consolidar la información en el periodo base mencionado anteriormente. Por ello, se evalúa la interacción entre las exportaciones de palta de la región de lima con el precio internacional, la certificación orgánica y la demanda en el país de destino, la cual fue analizada en 42 periodos bimestrales para mayor exactitud. El precio internacional de la palta en el país de destino tiende a incrementar las exportaciones, es por ello que se relaciona la interacción de dichas variables, dando como resultado un 93.1% de relación, además de la relación directamente proporcional y lo confirmado por los expertos, respecto al precio internacional que toma en destino la palta orgánica. Los resultados concluyen en la existencia de relación entre el precio y la demanda para el aumento de las exportaciones de la palta orgánica hacia Países Bajos. Asimismo, se recomienda un mejor manejo de prioridades por parte del estado para colocar a disponibilidad estrategias y alianzas de libre comercio para el apoyo del aumento de la producción orgánica, debido a que es un sector que tiene las tendencias al crecimiento y debe ser aprovechada más aun por los productores orgánicos. / The agro-export sector in Peru is characterized by being in constant growth for several consecutive years and one of the products that stands out is avocado and for this reason, the present study analyzes the traceability of fresh avocado exports from exporting companies with Organic Certification from the Lima region to the Netherlands in the period from 2013 to 2019. This study was based on a quantitative methodology through the collection of secondary data from CBS Netherlands, Ministry of Agriculture of Peru, FAOstats, AdexData Trade, Euromonitor and the World Bank, Also, the interpretation of interviews conducted with experts to consolidate the information in the base period mentioned above. Therefore, the interaction between avocado exports from the lima region with international price, organic certification and demand in the destination country is evaluated, which was analyzed in 42 bimonthly periods for greater accuracy. The international price of avocado in the country of destination modified to exports, is why the interaction of the variable variables is related, resulting in a 93.1% relationship, in addition to the directly proportional relationship and confirmed by the experts, regarding the international price that the organic avocado takes at destination. The results conclude in the existence of the relationship between price and demand for the increase in exports of organic palm to the Netherlands. Likewise, a better management of the needs by the state is recommended to place an availability of strategies and free trade alliances to support the increase in organic production, since it is a sector that has growth trends and should be exploited even more by organic producers. / Tesis

This thesis deals with the organic livestock production in South Bohemian region. The aim of the thesis was to analyze the South Bohemian organic meat production, production of eggs and honey and distribution of the biocommodities. Through the processing of data from the database IAEI and questionnaire survey, conducted at the level of organic farmers farming in the South Bohemian region with a valid certificate for meat production, development and the current market situation of organic meat production were assessed in the South Bohemian region.