Organic agriculture and ecological justice: Ethics and practice

Introduction.........................................................................................................76 Scope and purpose of the paper.......................................................................79 Sustainability, globalisation and organic agriculture ..........................................79 Dimensions of sustainability ...........................................................................80 Different meanings of globalisation and sustainability ...................................82 Sustainability and organic agriculture.............................................................83 The ethics and justice of ecological justice .........................................................84 Ecological justice as an ethical concept ..........................................................85 The justice of ecological justice ......................................................................87 Summing up ....................................................................................................89 Challenges for organic agriculture ......................................................................90 Commodification of commons........................................................................91 How to address externalities ...........................................................................92 Growing distances...........................................................................................94 Putting ecological justice into organic practice...................................................97 The way of certified organic agriculture .........................................................98 The way of non-certified organic agriculture................................................102 Organic agriculture as an alternative example ..............................................106 Conclusions.......................................................................................................108