low-input and organic agriculture
Improving Sustainability in Organic and Low Input Food Production Systems Proceedings of the 3rd International Congress of the European Integrated Project Quality Low Input Food (QLIF) University of Hohenheim, Germany, March 20 – 23, 2007
... tillage, organic amendments) has a significant impact on overall soil fertility as well as specific soil properties such as erosion stability, nutrient availability and water holding capacity (Mäder et ...in ...
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On farm research for efficient organic matter management in low input farming systems
... "organic agriculture" stemmed at the very beginning of the 20th century from the philosophical though of Rudolf Steiner, the undisputed founder of the biodynamic method, who in the 20's anticipated ...
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Workshop "The Contribution of Organic Agriculture to the SDGs: Scientific evidence from comparative research"
... Soil carbon in organic is higher in High Input systems compared to conventional Soil carbon is lowest in organic Low Input systems soil depth 0-20cm... Soil fertility Soil organic [r] ...
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Plant breeding for organic and sustainable, low input agriculture: dealing with genotypeenvironment interactions Book of Abstracts
... of organic production systems. The growing demand of the organic agriculture movements for organically bred varieties led ART in 2004 to initiate a targeted breeding programme of forage grasses and ...
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Organic Agriculture and Food Availability
... production: Organic agriculture has the potential to improve energy self-sufficiency at the national and international ...high input of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides and thus high energy ...
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Designing crop rotations in organic and low input agriculture: Evaluation of pre crop effects
... in organic agriculture, so that crop successions are determined from year to year according to current economic relevance, marketing possibilities, weather conditions, working capacity and other very ...
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Breeding for resilience: a strategy for organic and low input farming systems?
... Organic agriculture now comprises 5% of overall agricultural production in the ...for organic agriculture due to market demand as well as its nutritional contribution to the ...conventional ...
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Participatory Cotton Breeding for Organic and Low External Input Conditions
... – Organic cotton producer organisations – Center of Indian Cotton Research Institutes – Cotton Breeding & Organic Farming Institutes – Public and private Seed companies – Public Institutes for Testing ...
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Low Greenhouse Gas Agriculture: Mitigation and Adaptation Potential of Sustainable Farming Systems
... of organic agricultures current priorities – improving crop and animal productivity under low-external-input environments and selecting varieties and breeds especially fit for these conditions – can ...
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Soil Microbial Activity and Organic Carbon Dynamics in Low Input Agroecosystems.
... In the fall of 2011 a field experiment was initiated at Caswell Research Farm in Kinston, NC, part of the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services system of research stations. The soil in the ...
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Overview of organic agriculture
... in organic agriculture was occurring during the 1980s in parts of Oceania, Central and South America, Asia and ...to organic agriculture, the export earnings were valuable, labour was ...
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Diversity strategies for organic and low input agricultures and their food systems
... global agriculture due to the considerable variability within and between countries, with some areas potentially benefiting, and others suffering from, climate change (Jones and Thornton 2003; Gregory et ...in ...
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The forage utilization of winter pea-cereal mixture in agriculture low-input system
... clover (Trifolium incarnatum L.) were used (HALVA, 1978). Winter form of fi eld pea (Pisum arvense L.) was later introduced leguminous crop for our condition. This crop is one of the oldest cultivated crops with origin ...
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The use of organic biostimulants in hot pepper plants to help low input sustainable agriculture
... The two products used in this study (red grape skin ex- tract (RG) and AH) were manufactured by ILSA (Arzignano-Vicenza, Italy). AH was produced by a fully controlled enzymatic hydrolysis using vegetal material from ...
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Underlying Principles in Organic and “Low Input Food” Processing – Literature Survey
... A method which uses common analytical preparations might be called holistic too, if its results are interpreted in relation with the whole living organism and its general functioning (Meier-Ploeger, Vogtmann 1991). ...
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ICROFS news 1/2009 newsletter from ICROFS
... N ovel implements for intra-row flaming and mechanical weed control are commercialised (www. fp-engin.dk, www.garford. com). The demand to future technology is properties to control weeds in the near proximity of crop ...
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Improving quality and safety and maximizing benefits to consumers and producers
... To improve the quality & nutritional value of organic and other ”low input” foods in line with consumer demands and expectations... To increase the cost-efficiency all along the organic [r] ...
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How organic agriculture contributes to sustainable development
... Organic agriculture can contribute to meaningful socio-economic and ecologically sustainable development, especially in poorer ...of organic principles, which means efficient management of local ...
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Organic Agriculture Worldwide: Key results from the FiBL IFOAM survey on organic agriculture worldwide 2013 Slide collection
... relative importance is decreasing. Europe, a region that has had a very constant growth of organic land over the years, has more than one quarter of the world’s organic agricultural land. The share of Latin ...
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Organic Agriculture and HIV/AIDS the Nutritional Response
... based, low-labour production techniques, to develop localised income-generating mechanisms and to strengthen local food access ...smallholder agriculture across the board and to re-orientate agricultural ...
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