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Organic Farming, Prototype for Sustainable Agricultures
Various stakeholders have shown a growing interest in organic food and farming (OF&F), which has become a widespread issue at all levels of society. However, much debate still arises about the value of OF&F as a model for sustainable agriculture. Rather than questioning whether organic farmi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
2014.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. 2014. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto Completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface
- 1. Introduction: Organic food and Farming, Prototype for Sustainable Agriculture
- PART 1 - SYSTEM'S FUNCTIONING TO IMPROVE SELF-SUFFICIENCY
- 1.1 Organic Landcare and Fertility
- 2. Soil phosphorus (P) management in organic cropping systems: from current practices to avenues for a more efficient use of P resource
- 3. Intercropping - applying ecological principles for improved nitrogen use efficiency in organic farming systems
- 1.2 Crop Protection in Organic Farming
- 4. Regulatory framework for plant protection in organic farming
- 5. Conservation biocontrol: Principles and implementation in organic farming
- 6. Contribution of agroecology to plant protection in Organic Farming: Relevance and Limits
- 7. Building apple ideotypes adapted to organic and low-input, competitive systems
- 1.3 Livestock Management and System Design
- 8. Alternatives to chemical antiparasitic drugs in livestock in organic farming
- 9. Animal healthcare strategies in organic and conventional farming
- 10. Technical and economic performances in organic sheep-for-meat farms: observations on sheep-rearing networks and experimental farms
- 11. Experiencing organic mixed-crop dairy systems: a step by step assessment and redesign centred on a long-term experiment
- PART 2 - ORGANIC PERFORMANCES: BETWEEN SOCIETAL EXPECTATIONS AND SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE
- 2.1 Environmental Issues
- 12. Using Life Cycle Analysis to compare the environmental performance of organic and conventional apple orchards
- 13. The potential of organic agriculture to mitigate the impact of agriculture on global warming - a review
- 2.2 Animal Welfare
- 14. The respect of the five freedoms of farm animal in a context of environmental and health constraints: how much organic farming may play a role? A review
- 15. Can organic animal farmers do animal husbandry? Breaking with "animal production", a major issue for organic farming
- 2.3 Quality of Organic Products
- 16. Food quality and possible positive health effect of organic products
- 17. Quality of organic lamb
- 18. Is organic farming unsustainable? Analysis of the debate about the conventionalisation of the organic label
- PART 3 - DEVELOPMENT DYNAMIC AND UP-SCALING (FOOD SYSTEM AND TERRITORY)
- 3.1 New Frameworks for New Valuation Criteria
- 19. Transforming Recognition of the Social, Ecological and Economic Goods and Services Derived from Organic Agriculture in the Canadian Context
- 20. Seed sector and breeding methods: challenges for organic varieties
- 21. Seed for Organic Agriculture: the Development of the Participatory Plant Breeding and the Farmers' Networks in France
- 3.2 Transition Pathways in Agri-Food Systems: Farming Practices and Food Networks
- 22. Enabling the Ecological Redesign of Organic and Conventional Agriculture: A Social Ecology and Psychosocial Perspective - Position Paper
- 23. Transitions towards organic farming at the farm and at the local scales: the role of innovative production and organisational modes and networks
- 24. Contributing to the sustainability of agro-food systems: Potentials and pitfalls for organic farming
- 25. Multi-scale integrated assessment of regional conversion to Organic Farming.