The Organic Mindset: Insights from a Mixed Methods Grounded Theory (MM-GT) Study into Organic Food Systems

A broad understanding of food systems includes a complex web activities, outcomes and drivers, encompassing not only the agriculture sectors, but also social norms cultures in which those activities are embedded. The organic farming movement has lately been portrayed as system its own right, since it contains all necessary sub-systems, consisting environments, distribution networks, processing, well production supply, bounded by an guarantee system. underlying hypothesis this investigation is that drivers operate on paradigm level associated with codified principles ecology, health, fairness care. Personality science suggests choice to act pro-environmental ways driven internalized sense obligation or personal norms, justifies our pursuit seeking key mindset actor. Through integrated findings from actor-centered mixed methods grounded theory research involving eleven case territories, study identified pattern global attributes intuitively drive actors toward holistic human sustainable development.