EM Meemken, M Qaim - Annual Review of Resource Economics, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Organic agriculture is often perceived as more sustainable than conventional farming. We review the literature on this topic from a global perspective. In terms of environmental and …
U Niggli - Proceedings of the Nutrition Society, 2015 - cambridge.org
The greatest challenge for agriculture is to reduce the trade-offs between productivity and long-term sustainability. Therefore, it is interesting to analyse organic agriculture which is a …
Consumers are more and more concerned with the health of the food they eat. While great public anxiety about genetically engineered foodstuffs and BSE in cattle has developed in …
L Kilcher - JARTS Witzenhausen, Supplement 89, 2007 - orgprints.org
Organic agriculture can contribute to meaningful socio-economic and ecologically sustainable development, especially in poorer countries. This is due on the one hand to the …
Organic agriculture can sustain rural development and ease poverty. However, whether it could be a viable pathway to improve the livelihoods of small-scale farmers in the context of …
CR Vogl, L Kilcher, H Schmidt - Journal of Sustainable Agriculture, 2005 - Taylor & Francis
Organic farming is a promising agricultural method with positive effects on the human ecological and social environment. Governments have taken over a major role in defining …
H Azadi, S Schoonbeek, H Mahmoudi… - Agriculture …, 2011 - biblio.ugent.be
While organic agriculture (OA) is rapidly expanding, the important question is to understand how OA can contribute to sustainable food production system (SFPS). The SFPS is …
Organic agriculture (OA) currently occupies 0.3% of agricultural land, mostly in developed countries. This land is farmed according to rules administered by various OA-regulating …
The aims of organic farming are to protect:(a) the environment, by using organic management practices that do not have the adverse effects of conventional practices, and …