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Organic Action Plans. Development, implementation and evaluation. A resource manual for the organic food and farming sector
In 2004, the European Action Plan for Organic Food and Farming was launched. Many European countries have also developed national Organic Action Plans to promote and support organic agriculture.
As part of the EU funded ORGAP project (âEuropean Action Plan of Organic Food and Farming - Development of criteria and procedures for the evaluation of the EU Action Plan for Organic Agricultureâ) a toolbox to evaluate and monitor the implementation of national and European Action Plans has been developed.
In order to communicate the results of this project as widely as possible, a practical manual for initiating and evaluating Organic Action Plans has been produced.
This manual has been created to inspire the people, organisations and institutions involved, or with an interest, in the organic food and farming sector to engage in the initiation, review, revision and renewal of regional, national and European Organic Action Plans.
The objectives of the manual are to provide:
âą a tool for stakeholder involvement in future Action Plan development and implementation processes at EU, national and regional level
âą a guide to the use of the Organic Action Plan Evaluation Toolbox (ORGAPET) developed through the project
The manual summarises the key lessons learnt from more than 10 years experience of development, implementation and evaluation of Organic Action Plans throughout Europe.
The Organic Action Plan Evaluation Toolbox (ORGAPET), which includes comprehensive
information to support the Organic Action Plan development and evaluation process is included with the manual as a CD-ROM, and is also accessible on-line at www.orgap.org/orgapet.
The ORGAP website www.orgap.org provides a further information on the project
and the European and national organic action plans.
Published by: Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL), Frick, Switzerland; IFOAM EU Group, Brussels
Table of contents
Foreword 1
1 Introduction 3
1.1 About this manual 3
1.2 Organic farming â origins, definition & principles 6
1.3 Development of organic food & farming in Europe 8
1.3.1 Organic food and farming regulation in Europe 10
1.3.2 Policy support for organic food and farming in Europe 11
2 Organic Action Plans â what are they about? 16
2.1 Why Organic Action Plans? 16
2.2 European Organic Action Plan 21
2.3 Overview of national and regional Organic Action Plans 23
3 Planning and implementing Organic Action Plans 28
3.1 Policy development 28
3.2 Defining organic sector development needs and potential 31
3.3 Defining policy goals and objectives 34
3.4 Involving stakeholders 40
3.4.1 The case for stakeholder involvement 40
3.4.2 Identifying relevant stakeholders 42
3.4.3 Participatory approaches for stakeholders involvement 44
3.5 Decision making: selecting, integrating and prioritising
relevant measures 46
3.5.1 Deciding on policy instruments and action points 47
3.5.2 Priorities for action â allocating resources 50
3.6 Implementing Organic Action Plans 52
3.7 Including monitoring and evaluation of Organic Action Plans
from outset 56
3.8 Managing communication 58
3.9 Development of Action Plans in countries that joined the
EU in 2004 and later 59
4 Evaluating Organic Action Plans 61
4.1 Principles of evaluation 61
4.2 Conducting an evaluation 64
4.3 Evaluating Action Plan design and implementation 70
4.3.1 Evaluating programme design and implementation processes 70
4.3.2 Evaluating programme coherence 72
4.3.3 Evaluating stakeholder involvement 74
4.4 Evaluating Action Plan effects 78
4.4.1 Developing and using indicators for evaluation 78
4.5 Overall evaluation of Organic Action Plans â judging success 85
4.6 Evaluating Action Plans in countries that joined the EU
in 2004 and later 89
5 Organic Action Plans â the Golden Rules 91
5.1 Key elements of Organic Action Plan development 91
5.2 The Golden rules for Organic Action Plan 93
References 96
Annex Detailed synopsis of ORGAPET 10
Plans dâaction pour lâagriculture biologique. DĂ©veloppement, mise en Ćuvre et Ă©valuation. Un manuel de ressources pour le secteur de lâalimentation et de lâagriculture biologiques
Avant-propos
La Commission europĂ©enne a publiĂ© en juin 2004 le Plan dâaction europĂ©en pour lâalimentation et lâagriculture biologiques. Avec ce plan, la Commission visait Ă Ă©valuer la situation de lâagriculture biologique et Ă fonder les bases de dĂ©veloppement de sa politique future. Au niveau national, de nombreux gouvernements ont Ă©galement dĂ©veloppĂ© des plans dâaction pour promouvoir lâagriculture biologique. Il est donc apparu nĂ©cessaire de considĂ©rer comment de tels plans dâaction pouvaient ĂȘtre Ă©valuĂ©s avec succĂšs.
Le plan dâaction europĂ©en a Ă©tĂ© la motivation principale pour la DG Recherche de la Commission europĂ©enne de financer un projet de soutien spĂ©cifique, lâORGAP, Projet No. CT-2005-006591 au sein du 6Ăšme programme-cadre de recherche. Ce projet, intitulĂ© âPlan dâaction europĂ©en pour lâalimentation et lâagriculture biologiques â dĂ©veloppement de critĂšres et de procĂ©dures dâĂ©valuation du Plan dâaction UE pour lâagriculture biologiqueâ, a dĂ©butĂ© en mai 2005 et sâest terminĂ© en avril 2008.
Des outils ont Ă©tĂ© dĂ©veloppĂ©s au sein du projet pour Ă©valuer et surveiller la mise en Ćuvre du Plan dâaction europĂ©en dans les domaines suivants : information, formation et pĂ©dagogie, recherche, production, traitement, dĂ©veloppement du marchĂ©, certification et dĂ©penses publiques. Ces outils ont Ă©tĂ© testĂ©s sur un Ă©chantillon de Plans dâaction nationaux existants, et pour partie aussi sur le Plan dâaction europĂ©en, en plaçant principalement lâaccent sur les processus de mise en Ćuvre. En outre, des recommandations politiques de la Commission europĂ©enne, des autoritĂ©s nationales et autres acteurs ont Ă©tĂ© Ă©mises.
Afin de communiquer les recommandations relatives Ă ce projet aussi largement que possible, ce manuel pratique dâinitiation et dâĂ©valuation des plans dâaction a Ă©tĂ© crĂ©Ă©. La fonction de ce manuel est double :
a) Outil de participation des acteurs dans le dĂ©veloppement de futurs plans et mise en Ćuvre au niveau UE, national et rĂ©gional ;
b) Guide dâutilisation dâORGAPET, des outils dâĂ©valuation du projet ORGAP (fourni sur CD-ROM avec le manuel et disponible en ligne sur le site www.orgap.org).
Le manuel, crĂ©Ă© dans le cadre du projet ORGAP, est largement basĂ© sur les documents inclus dans lâOrganic Action Plan Ăvaluation Toolbox (Outils dâĂ©valuation du plan dâaction biologique) (ORGAPET).
Les institutions suivantes ont contribuĂ© au dĂ©veloppement dâORGAPET et du manuel :
- Université de Hohenheim (UHO), Stuttgart (Prof. Stephan Dabbert, Christian Eichert) ;
- Aberystwyth University (UWA), Pays de Galles, Grande-Bretagne (Dr. Nic Lampkin, Ian Jeffreys) ;
- Polytechnic University of Marche, Ancona (UNIVPM), Italie (Prof. Raffaele Zanoli, Dr. Daniela Vairo) ;
- University of Southern Denmark (USD), Danemark (Dr. Johannes Michelsen)