Organic Agricultural Practices

Alternatives to Conventional Agricultural Systems
Herausgeber: Etingoff, Kimberly

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters. Organic practices are quickly redefining how agriculture is done around the world, as we come to realize how detrimental conventional agriculture is to local and global environments and economies. This book serves as an overview of some of the important topics in organic agriculture. The volume is broken into several sections which explore the effects of organic practices on crop productivity, the use of biofertilizers, plant cultivars, and compare the environmental impact with conventional agriculture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Apple Academic Press
• Seitenzahl: 418
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 160mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 699g
• ISBN-13: 9781771880824
• ISBN-10: 1771880821
• Artikelnr.: 41248364

Autorenporträt

Kimberly Etingoff's background includes city and regional planning, farming, food systems programming, sociology, and urban geography. She studied at the University of Rochester, New York, and Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, and has done extensive field work with food systems and agricultural sociology. She has been writing and editing academic and educational books on topics such as nutrition, farming, and aspects of sociology for more than ten years.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Organic Agricultural Results Compared with Conventional
Agriculture. Evaluating the Sustainability of a Small-Scale Low-Input
Organic Vegetable Supply System in the United Kingdom. Soil Organisms in
Organic and Conventional Cropping Systems. Localizing the Nitrogen Imprint
of the Paris Food Supply: The Potential of Organic Farming and Changes in
Human Diet. Comparative Growth Analysis of Callistephus Chinensis L. Using
Vermicompost and Chemical Fertilizer. Comparison of the Farming System and
Carbon Sequestration between Conventional and Organic Rice Production in
West Java, Indonesia. Part II: Biofertilizers. Residual Influence of
Organic Materials, Crop Residues, and Biofertilizers on Performance of
Succeeding Mung Bean in an Organic Rice-Based Cropping System. Evaluation
of Biofertilizers in Irrigated Rice: Effects on Grain Yield at Different
Fertilizer Rate. Effects of Fertilizer and Plant Density on Yield and
Quality of Anise (Pimpinella Anisum L.). Microbial Diversity of
Vermicompost Bacteria that Exhibit Useful Agricultural Traits and Waste
Management Potential. Part III: Plant Cultivars in Organic Agriculture.
Characteristics Important for Organic Breeding of Vegetable Crops.
Collaborative Plant Breeding for Organic Agricultural Systems in Developed
Countries. Phenotypic Changes in Different Spinach Varieties Grown and
Selected under Organic Conditions. Part IV: Environmental Effects of
Organic Agriculture. Soil Enzyme Activities, Microbial Communities, and
Carbon and Nitrogen Availability in Organic Agroecosystems Across an
Intensively-Managed Agricultural Landscape. Nitrate Leaching from Intensive
Organic Farms to Groundwater. Improving Nitrogen Use Efficiency in Crops
for Sustainable Agriculture.