<div style="text-align: justify;">During July and August 2011, prices at the source of organic products in Italy showed a slight decrease, a tendency also recorded in the same period of 2010, though in presence of some sectors with stable prices. At consumption level, instead, the average prices of the main products showed a slight increase. Thus, in relation to 2010, there is no evidence of the phenomenon -more frequent recently- of a balanced value distribution all along the organic food chain. Furthermore, with reference to the prices at the source, organic products, vis-à-vis of the conventional ones, did record a lower rate of inflation in all the monitored sectors.<br></div><br><br><a href="../share/img_lib_files/1570_news_biologico_2011_9.pdf">The market note</a> (in Italian)<br><br>Source: ISMEA<br>