Organic Farming, Prototype for Sustainable Agricultures 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...

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Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Bellon, Stéphane (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Penvern, Servane (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
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Διαθέσιμο Online:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
  • 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.