Biodynamic Agriculture
The secrets of Koberwitz: The diffusion of Rudolf Steiner’s Agriculture Course and the founding of Biodynamic Agriculture
... The present study confirms that within six years of the Course there were in excess of 400 participants in the AEC and they were located throughout continental Europe, as well as in Australia, Britain, Canada, New ...
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The Glass House: Crucible of Biodynamic Agriculture
... first biodynamic conference to an English speaking audience at the farm of Lord Northbourne at Betteshanger in Kent, UK, the following year (1-9 July, 1939) (Paull, ...‘organic agriculture’ in his book Look ...
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Ernesto Genoni: Australia’s pioneer of biodynamic agriculture
... Ernesto Genoni (1885-1975) was a man torn between two worlds. In Italy he was an artist (Fig.1), in Australia he was a farmer. In Europe he was a married man, in Australia he was a de facto partner. In Italy there was ...
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The Betteshanger Summer School: Missing link between biodynamic agriculture and organic farming
... Biodynamic agriculture and organic farming have been regarded as having different provenances and having arisen ...pre-eminent biodynamic scholar-practitioners, Otto Eckstein and Hans ...organic ...
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Biodynamic Agriculture: The Journey from Koberwitz to the World, 1924 1938
... the Agriculture Course was subject to, in current terminology, ...new agriculture, Steiner was aware that some start-up investment of time, observation, and experiment was necessary ...
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Expectation or sensorial reality? An empirical investigation of the biodynamic calendar for wine drinkers
... of agriculture [2]. Biodynamic agriculture follows the central tenets of organic produc- tion, namely exclusion of synthetic fertilisers and chemical herbicides that are common in con- ventional ...
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Biodynamic approaches in research and development
... by biodynamic farmers on their farms (probably some decades earlier than the creation of the term on-farm ...that biodynamic agriculture has been connected with R&D activities from its beginning ...
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SOIL MICROBIAL POPULATION AND ENZYME ACTIVITIES UNDER ORGANIC, BIODYNAMIC AND CONVENTIONAL AGRICULTURE IN SEMI-ARID TROPICAL CONDITIONS OF CENTRAL INDIA
... organic, biodynamic and conventional agriculture ...≥ biodynamic agriculture. The organic agriculture registered 27-102% and 28-111% higher enzymatic activities than conventional and ...
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Approaches and achievements of biodynamic vegetable breeding by Kultursaat e V (Germany) using the example of RODELIKA one of the first certified biodynamic varieties
... the biodynamic sector special importance has been attached to seeds at all ...of biodynamic agriculture, and asked him for advice regarding the increasing degeneration of seeds that they believed to ...
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DETERMINATION OF THE GLYCOALKALOIDS CONTENT FROM POTATO TUBERCULES (SOLANUM TUBEROSUM)
... of agriculture resides exactly in this dynamisation and it depends on cosmic and earthy factors, on plant preparations and, last but not least, on the state of mind and soul of the practitioner, on its mind, ...
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Lord Northbourne, the man who invented organic farming, a biography
... including biodynamic agriculture, had initially found fertile ground in Germany, the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis had created a hostile environment there, culminating in persecutions, imprisonments, ...
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Dalmore Farm: Victoria’s first biodynamic farming venture (1933 1934)
... Dalmore Farm (1933-1934) was Victoria’s first biodynamic farming venture. A letter, written in Milan, Italy, in Italian in 1934 by Rosa Genoni (1867-1954) and recently recovered in a family archive, enables ...
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Quality Assessment of Summer and Autumn Carrots from a Biodynamic Breeding Project and Correlations of Physico Chemical Parameters and Features Determined by Picture Forming Methods
... Six summer and eight autumn carrot varieties from biodynamic breeders (D. Bauer, and Th. Heinze) and conven- tional breeders (Sperli, Quedlinburg) including open pollinating cultivars, F1-Hybrids and special ...
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Ökologische Agrarkultur Weltweit 2003 – Statistiken und Perspektiven Organic Agriculture Worldwide 2003 – Statistics and Future Prospects
... The main drivers of this steady market growth are the commitment of many retail chains as well as favourable policy conditions. Together these have created conditions favouring a harmonious increase in supply and demand. ...
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Report on improved use of research facilities and topics relevant for integration, and training schemes
... Description: Many disciplinary courses at MSc-level are very general about biological and ecological principles that have possible application in many different production systems. Some of these courses are of more ...
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Overview of community supported agriculture in Europe
... Serbia has very favourable natural conditions, both land and climate, for varied agricultural production. It has 5,056,000ha of agricultural land (0.7ha per capita), out of which 3,294,000ha is arable land (0.45ha per ...
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Sustaining the supply of White Gold: The case of SysCom innovation platforms in India
... “Narmada never runs dry you know, it is holy. A teardrop that fell from the eyes of Lord Brahma, the creator of the universe, yielded the river.” Just one of the “legend has it” statements you’ll hear from locals when ...
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Collective action : improving smallholder rice farmers' value chain in Yogyakarta, Indonesia : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of AgriCommerce, at Massey University, Manawatu, New Zealand
... I would like to acknowledge and thank Gapoktan Sidomulyo and its leadership team members and the farmers for their cooperation and help with this project. The field work was valuable for me. I have learnt a lot about ...
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Synthesis, Characterization of Flavonol Derivatives and it’s Biodynamic Activities and Associated Parameters.
... All the newly synthesized compounds were screened to in vitro antimicrobial to various gram positive and gram negative bacteria’s using well plate agar diffusion technique by measuring i[r] ...
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Yield and Economic Performance of Organic and Conventional Cotton Based Farming Systems – Results from a Field Trial in India
... and biodynamic farming were carried out according to the standards defined by the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM) [60] and DEME- TER-International [61], ...in ...
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