Abstract:
Approaching the ecological agriculture topic in the context of European Policies to accelerate
the conversion to those policies is an interdisciplinary challenge. The motivation to develop this
subject is based on the longitudinal observation that the ecological agriculture evolution in Romania
has been very slow, despite the policies aimed to accelerate the transition from the conventional to
the ecological agriculture have been supported since the 2000s. The goal of the paper is to reframe the
available data to evidence the slow dynamics of the organic farms’ certification. The methods used
are descriptive and numerical analysis, supplemented by a qualitative-transversal interpretation. The
research work has been carried out on the dynamic analysis of the ecological agriculture progress in
Romania, based on the data with the ecological certification of the specialized companies (2019–2021).
The main hypothesis: the slow dynamics are caused by subjective barriers. The results confirm the
slow dynamics of ecological certifications due to some limits and barriers to understand the real role
and benefits from the ecological agriculture. In this context, the European Union Organic Action Plan
for 2021–2030 proves to be a stimulus for the Romanian ecological agriculture.
