ABSTRACT
There is no universal definition of ‘Good Farming Practices’ (GFP), but it is obviously one facet of general ‘Good Agricultural Practice’ (GAP). According to FAO (2003), GAP ‘applies available knowledge to addressing environmental, economic and social sustainability for on-farm production and post-production processes resulting in safe and healthy food and non-food agricultural products’. This means that in practice, legislation and standards addressing GFP often will address not only food safety, food security and animal welfare, but also environmental protection, rural development, common agricultural market and trade issues. The European Union gives a good example how complex the ramifications in legislation on GFP can be in large economic and political associations of nations (Bergschmidt et al., 2003).
