Volume 70 contains six excellent treatises dealing with two of the leitmotifs in the plant and soil sciences - environmental quality and crop improvement. Chapter 1 is a comprehensive treatment of the role of carbon ...

The paper explores the drivers for organic farming uptake and undertakes a preliminary evaluation of the effectiveness of organic farming policy against a set of 24 criteria, in a number of case study countries. Organic ...

Organic farming systems are increasingly recognised throughout the world as a realistic alternative to intensive industrial agriculture. Consequently there is also an increasing amount of research activity both formal and ...

In this study, a large number of organic dairy production strategies were compared in terms of physical and financial performance through the integrated use of computer simulation models and organic case study farm data. ...

For all those who work, live in or simply enjoy the countryside, this new textbook is the essential reference guide. Developed to complement Primrose McConnell’s Agricultural Notebook (now in its 20th Edition under the ...

Organic farming is recognised in the European Union as one possible model to improve the sustainability of agriculture. During the 1990s the sector grew rapidly (to 3% of agricultural area in 2000), caused in part by policy ...

These proceedings document the results of the congress 'Improving Sustainability in Organic and Low Input Food Production Systems' which took place on March 20–23, 2007, at the University of Hohenheim in Germany. This ...

This paper sets out the case for increased investment in organic market data and summarizes the main recommendations that emerge from the European Information System for Organic Markets (EISfOM) project.