IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/ags/eaa119/123720.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

The Establishment Of An Organic Farmers’ Market As A Training Case Study For Students Of The Faculty Of Agriculture In The University Of Palermo

Author

Listed:
  • Schifani, Giorgio
  • Inglese, Paolo
  • Noto, Francesca

Abstract

The role of organic agriculture in the island of Sicily is well recognised by farmers, though the consumption of organic products still fails to largely develop in the local markets, due to several reasons, among which the small scale agricultural system and its structural poor organization plays a major role. The University of Palermo holds two major undergraduate and graduate courses on “Organic Agriculture” with a very good participation of Students. A student’s association was established with the aim of: a) encourage the consumption of organic products coming from local small scale farmers, and b) endorse the capacity of creating new job skillnes and opportunities for graduate students of the Faculty, and encourage the relationship by producers and consumers through the creation of a farmer market and a group of buyers specifically devoted to organic agriculture. The association was supervised by the Faculty and its development in terms of market role and education opportunities is discussed in this report.

Suggested Citation

  • Schifani, Giorgio & Inglese, Paolo & Noto, Francesca, 2010. "The Establishment Of An Organic Farmers’ Market As A Training Case Study For Students Of The Faculty Of Agriculture In The University Of Palermo," 119th Seminar, June 30-July 2, 2010, Capri, Italy 123720, European Association of Agricultural Economists.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:eaa119:123720
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.123720
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/123720/files/Schifani_et_al.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.22004/ag.econ.123720?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ags:eaa119:123720. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: AgEcon Search (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/eaaeeea.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.