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Global development of organic agriculture : challenges and prospects / edited by Niels Halberg ... [et al.].
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Organic farming.
- Natural foods industry.
- Sustainable development.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (391 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Wallingford : CABI, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Begins by outlining the history and science of bacteriology and gives an overview of the diversity and versatility of complex bacteria. This book then explains the characterization, identification and naming of complex bacteria, and explores how bacteria can cause disease, and how plants react to such disease.
- Contents:
- Global Development of Organic Agriculture: Challenges and Prospects
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- 1 Global trends in agriculture and food systems
- Introduction
- World agriculture - trends and impacts
- Global trends in organic agriculture
- Conclusions
- References
- 2 Globalization and sustainable development: a political ecology strategy to realize ecological justice
- Organic farming and the challenge of sustainability
- Political ecology as one approach to globalization and sustainable development
- Commons as the basis of ecological justice
- Overcoming commodification
- Putting ecological justice into practice: guidelines for policy
- 3 Organic agriculture and ecological justice: ethics and practice
- Sustainability, globalization and organic agriculture
- The ethics and justice of ecological justice
- Challenges for organic agriculture: commodification, externalities and distant trade
- Putting ecological justice into organic practice
- Acknowledgements
- 4 Ecological economics and organic farming
- Ecological economics as a trans-disciplinary approach
- Political economics and the conception of time and scale
- Farming, production time, nature's time and scale
- Organic farming: a response to ecological damage caused by growth in scale and shortening of production time
- The ecological economic perspective and organic farming
- Frameworks for decision-making
- 5 Organic farming in a world of free trade
- The agricultural agenda
- Trade and the environment
- 6 Certified and non-certified organic farming in the developing world
- Certified organic farming in the developing world.
- Non-certified organic farming
- Unlearning from the Northern experience: reconceptualizing the benefits of organic farming from a Southern perspective
- Livelihoods
- Questions to guide future studies in organic farming
- 7 Possibilities for closing the urban-rural nutrient cycles
- Recycling nutrients in society - an ecological economics perspective
- Basic economic, institutional and social aspects of waste handling
- Quantities of nutrients and organic resources - from households to agricultural systems
- Ecological handling systems for organic waste and wastewater
- The cost of the handling system
- Moral and cultural aspects related to recycling urban waste
- Health aspects related to recycling urban waste
- Recycling nutrients from urban waste - global examples
- 8 Soil fertility depletion in sub-Saharan Africa: what is the role of organic agriculture?
- Causes of soil fertility depletion in SSA
- Approaches to restore soil fertility and improve productivity
- 9 Sustainable veterinary medical practices in organic farming: a global perspective
- The potential for organic livestock farming
- Disease management in organic livestock production
- The use and risks of antimicrobial drugs
- Vector-borne diseases and organic livestock farming
- Disease control issues associated with land use and land tenure
- Developing organic strategies to enhance animal health and livestock production
- Moving from an 'organic approach' to 'organic animal production'
- Conclusions and recommendations
- 10 The impact of organic farming on food security in a regional and global perspective
- Overview of existing food supply and security projections.
- Significant factors determining the effect of OF on food supply and food security
- Modelling consequences of large scale conversion to OF for food security
- Discussion
- 11 Towards a global research programme for organic food and farming
- Examining the basis for a global organic programme: institutional analysis
- The role of - selected - international organizations in promoting organic farming
- Research as a support tool for developing organic farming and food systems
- Towards a development-oriented research programme for organic agriculture
- 12 Synthesis: prospects for organic agriculture in a global context
- Three perspectives on the challenges and prospects of organic agriculture
- How may certified organic farming meet the challenges of the increased globalization of organic food chains?
- What solutions do certified and non-certified organic agriculture offer to sustainability problems in the global food system?
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-281-76553-8
- 9786611765538
- 1-84593-079-7
- OCLC:
- 298627501
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