Agricultural production involves the scaling of agricultural innovations such as disease-
resistant and drought-tolerant maize varieties, zero-tillage techniques, permaculture …

Literature on the conversion to organic farming is scattered. However, both the conversion of
farmers to organic farming and of consumers to organic food are the driving forces for the …

Soil security, an overarching concept of soil motivated by sustainable development, is
concerned with the maintenance and improvement of the global soil resource to produce …

This book provides a follow-up for Van den Ban and Hawkins' classic Agricultural Extension
(1988, 1996), of which some 35 000 copies have been printed in 10 languages1. It does so …

The magnitude of public concerns about agricultural innovations has often been
underestimated, as past examples, such as pesticides, nanotechnology, and cloning …

Integrative research approaches are intensely discussed in landscape ecology, in academia
and in research policy. However, confusion over the terminology hampers communication …

Sustainability indicators are well recognized for their potential to assess and monitor
sustainable development of agricultural systems. A large number of indicators are proposed …

Society's relationship with modern animal farming is an ambivalent one: on the one hand
there is rising criticism about modern animal farming; on the other hand people appreciate …

Competing claims on natural resources become increasingly acute, with the poor being
most vulnerable to adverse outcomes of such competition. A major challenge for science …

This paper examines the role of organic farmer networks in facilitating farmer innovations in
complex agro-ecological farming systems through a study of a sample of organic farmers in …