Organic Farming, Prototype for Sustainable Agricultures - Bellon, Stéphane.; Penvern, Servane; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014)
Preface -- 1. Introduction: Organic food and Farming, Prototype for Sustainable Agriculture -- PART 1 - SYSTEM'S FUNCTIONING TO IMPROVE SELF-SUFFICIENCY -- 1.1 Organic Landcare and Fertility -- 2. Soil phosphorus (P) management in organic cropping systems: from current practices to avenues for a more efficient use of P resource -- 3. Intercropping - applying ecological principles for improved nitrogen use efficiency in organic farming systems -- 1.2 Crop Protection in Organic Farming -- 4. Regulatory framework for plant protection in organic farming -- 5. Conservation biocontrol: Principles and implementation in organic farming -- 6. Contribution of agroecology to plant protection in Organic Farming: Relevance and Limits -- 7. Building apple ideotypes adapted to organic and low-input, competitive systems -- 1.3 Livestock Management and System Design -- 8. Alternatives to chemical antiparasitic drugs in livestock in organic farming -- 9. Animal healthcare strategies in organic and conventional farming -- 10. Technical and economic performances in organic sheep-for-meat farms: observations on sheep-rearing networks and experimental farms -- 11. Experiencing organic mixed-crop dairy systems: a step by step assessment and redesign centred on a long-term experiment -- PART 2 - ORGANIC PERFORMANCES: BETWEEN SOCIETAL EXPECTATIONS AND SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE -- 2.1 Environmental Issues -- 12. Using Life Cycle Analysis to compare the environmental performance of organic and conventional apple orchards -- 13. The potential of organic agriculture to mitigate the impact of agriculture on global warming - a review -- 2.2 Animal Welfare -- 14. The respect of the five freedoms of farm animal in a context of environmental and health constraints: how much organic farming may play a role? A review -- 15. Can organic animal farmers do animal husbandry? Breaking with "animal production", a major issue for organic farming -- 2.3 Quality of Organic Products -- 16. Food quality and possible positive health effect of organic products -- 17. Quality of organic lamb -- 18. Is organic farming unsustainable? Analysis of the debate about the conventionalisation of the organic label -- PART 3 - DEVELOPMENT DYNAMIC AND UP-SCALING (FOOD SYSTEM AND TERRITORY) -- 3.1 New Frameworks for New Valuation Criteria -- 19. Transforming Recognition of the Social, Ecological and Economic Goods and Services Derived from Organic Agriculture in the Canadian Context -- 20. Seed sector and breeding methods: challenges for organic varieties -- 21. Seed for Organic Agriculture: the Development of the Participatory Plant Breeding and the Farmers' Networks in France -- 3.2 Transition Pathways in Agri-Food Systems: Farming Practices and Food Networks -- 22. Enabling the Ecological Redesign of Organic and Conventional Agriculture: A Social Ecology and Psychosocial Perspective - Position Paper -- 23. Transitions towards organic farming at the farm and at the local scales: the role of innovative production and organisational modes and networks -- 24. Contributing to the sustainability of agro-food systems: Potentials and pitfalls for organic farming -- 25. Multi-scale integrated assessment of regional conversion to Organic Farming.
Keywords: Agriculture; Ecology .; Sociology; Plant science; Botany; Food-Biotechnology.; Veterinary medicine; Agriculture; Ecology; Sociology, general; Plant Sciences; Food Science; Veterinary Medicine/Veterinary Science