Global development of organic agriculture : challenges and prospects /

• Corporate Author: Forskningscenter for Økologisk Jordbrug.
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2006.
• Subjects: Natural foods industry.; Organic farming.; Sustainable development > Environmental aspects.; Agricultural Economics.; Natural Resource Economics, (New March 2000); Food Economics, (New March 2000); International Trade.; Plant Cropping Systems.; Soil Fertility.; Animal Husbandry and Production, (New March 2000); Animal Health and Hygiene (General); Social Psychology and Social Anthropology, (New March 2000); Ethics.; Food security.; Food supply.; Free trade.; Globalization.; Natural resource economics.; Politics.; Soil fertility.; Sustainability.; Veterinary medicine.; World.; Electronic books.
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This book provides an overview of the potential role of organic agriculture in a global perspective. Initially, the book provides a description of global trends in agriculture followed by discussions on sustainability, globalization and the relatively new concepts of 'ecological justice' a...

Table of Contents:

• Global trends in agriculture and food systems / Marie Trydeman Knudsen, Niels Halberg, Jørgen E. Olesen, John Byrne, Venkatesh Iyer and Noah Toly
• Globalization and sustainable development : a political ecology strategy to realize ecological justice / John Byrne, Leigh Glover and Hugo F. Alrøe
• Organic agriculture and ecological justice : ethics and practice / Hugo F. Alrøe, John Byrne and Leigh Glover
• Ecological economics and organic farming / Paul Rye Kledal, Chris Kjeldsen, Karen Refsgaard and Peter Söderbaum
• Organic farming in a world of free trade / Christian Friis Bach
• Certified and non-certified organic farming in the developing world / Nicholas Parrott, Jørgen E. Olesen and Henning Høgh-Jensen
• Possibilities for closing the urban-rural nutrient cycles / Karen Refsgaard, Petter D. Jenssen and Jakob Magid
• Soil fertility depletion in sub-Saharan Africa : what is the role of organic agriculture? / John Pender and Ole Mertz
• Sustainable veterinary medical practices in organic farming : a global perspective / Mette Vaarst, Stephen Roderick, Denis K. Byarugaba, Sofie Kobayashi, Chris Rubaire-Akiiki and Hubert J. Karreman
• The impact of organic farming on food security in a regional and global perspective / Niels Halberg, Timothy B. Sulser, Henning Høgh-Jensen, Mark W. Rosegrant and Marie Trydeman Knudsen
• Towards a global research programme for organic food and farming / Henrik Egelyng and Henning Høgh-Jensen
• Synthesis : prospects for organic agriculture in a global context / Niels Halberg, Hugo F. Alrøe and Erik Steen Kristensen.