What are the development paths for organic farming in Occitanie? Overview and co-development with other agricultural models between 2010 and 2022
Abstract
Organic farming growth has been strong in Occitanie over the last decade (2010-2022), but the growth rate was heterogeneous across municipalities. In this study, we analyse the growth path of Organic farming in municipalities. Using a statistical method of hierarchical clustering, we identify five groups of municipalities according to organic farming growth rate between 2010 and 2022: one with a historical high rate of organic farmers; one with a strong and early growth but slowing in the end of the period; one group with a strong but delayed growth and, last but not least, a majority of territories where the share of organic farmers remains low all over the period. These groups differ in the specialization of agricultural production, with a higher rate of organic farming in municipalities specialized in arable farming and mixed crop-livestock farming. The results also show that organic farming is less prevalent in municipalities where the rate of other official origin and quality labels is high and increasing. On the contrary, the others quality or environmental labels (HVE, biodynamics…) are developing alongside organic farming in a logic of co-growth.
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BibTeX
@article{corre2026what,
title = {{What are the development paths for organic farming in Occitanie? Overview and co-development with other agricultural models between 2010 and 2022}},
author = {Tifenn Corre and Thomas Poméon and Julie Régolo},
journal = {Économie rurale},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.4000/16nix},
url = {https://hal.science/hal-05737669v1},
note = {CC BY-NC 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - JOUR
TI - What are the development paths for organic farming in Occitanie? Overview and co-development with other agricultural models between 2010 and 2022
AU - Tifenn Corre
AU - Thomas Poméon
AU - Julie Régolo
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/03
JO - Économie rurale
DO - 10.4000/16nix
UR - https://hal.science/hal-05737669v1
AB - Organic farming growth has been strong in Occitanie over the last decade (2010-2022), but the growth rate was heterogeneous across municipalities. In this study, we analyse the growth path of Organic farming in municipalities. Using a statistical method of hierarchical clustering, we identify five groups of municipalities according to organic farming growth rate between 2010 and 2022: one with a historical high rate of organic farmers; one with a strong and early growth but slowing in the end of the period; one group with a strong but delayed growth and, last but not least, a majority of territories where the share of organic farmers remains low all over the period. These groups differ in the specialization of agricultural production, with a higher rate of organic farming in municipalities specialized in arable farming and mixed crop-livestock farming. The results also show that organic farming is less prevalent in municipalities where the rate of other official origin and quality labels is high and increasing. On the contrary, the others quality or environmental labels (HVE, biodynamics…) are developing alongside organic farming in a logic of co-growth.
SN - 0013-0559
SN - 2105-2581
ER -