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    Organic Action Plans. Development, implementation and evaluation. A resource manual for the organic food and farming sector

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    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 (“European Action Plan of Organic Food and Farming - Development of criteria and procedures for the evaluation of the EU Action Plan for Organic Agriculture”) 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: ‱ a tool for stakeholder involvement in future Action Plan development and implementation processes at EU, national and regional level ‱ 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – judging success 85 4.6 Evaluating Action Plans in countries that joined the EU in 2004 and later 89 5 Organic Action Plans – 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 d’action pour l’agriculture biologique. DĂ©veloppement, mise en Ɠuvre et Ă©valuation. Un manuel de ressources pour le secteur de l’alimentation et de l’agriculture biologiques

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    Avant-propos La Commission europĂ©enne a publiĂ© en juin 2004 le Plan d’action europĂ©en pour l’alimentation et l’agriculture biologiques. Avec ce plan, la Commission visait Ă  Ă©valuer la situation de l’agriculture 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 d’action pour promouvoir l’agriculture biologique. Il est donc apparu nĂ©cessaire de considĂ©rer comment de tels plans d’action pouvaient ĂȘtre Ă©valuĂ©s avec succĂšs. Le plan d’action 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, l’ORGAP, Projet No. CT-2005-006591 au sein du 6Ăšme programme-cadre de recherche. Ce projet, intitulĂ© “Plan d’action europĂ©en pour l’alimentation et l’agriculture biologiques – dĂ©veloppement de critĂšres et de procĂ©dures d’évaluation du Plan d’action UE pour l’agriculture biologique”, a dĂ©butĂ© en mai 2005 et s’est terminĂ© en avril 2008. Des outils ont Ă©tĂ© dĂ©veloppĂ©s au sein du projet pour Ă©valuer et surveiller la mise en Ɠuvre du Plan d’action 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 d’action nationaux existants, et pour partie aussi sur le Plan d’action europĂ©en, en plaçant principalement l’accent sur les processus de mise en Ɠuvre. 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 d’initiation et d’évaluation des plans d’action 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 Ɠuvre au niveau UE, national et rĂ©gional ; b) Guide d’utilisation d’ORGAPET, des outils d’évaluation 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 l’Organic Action Plan Évaluation Toolbox (Outils d’évaluation du plan d’action biologique) (ORGAPET). Les institutions suivantes ont contribuĂ© au dĂ©veloppement d’ORGAPET et du manuel : - UniversitĂ© 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)
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