title: Organic Farming and the Energy Crisis: Saint or Sinner?
creator: Philipps, Ms Lois
creator: Bently-Fox, Miss Helen
subject:  Environmental aspects
subject:  "Organics" in general
description: Food production systems are partially responsible for contributing to elevated levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere due to the heavy reliance on fossil fuels and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. Organic farming systems, however, strive to work so far as possible within closed systems, which attempt to use appropriate technologies and scarce resources sparingly. Drawing data from recent case studies this paper examines how close modern UK organic farming can come to these ideals. The paper will conclude with recommendations for the organic farming sector to deliver a food production system that will be required to operate within tighter economic, social and environmental constraints in the future.
date: 2006
type: Conference paper, poster, etc. 
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: http://orgprints.org/7464/1/Energy.pdf
format: application/pdf
identifier: http://orgprints.org/7464/2/7464.pdf
identifier: Philipps, Ms Lois and Bently-Fox, Miss Helen (2006) Organic Farming and the Energy Crisis: Saint or Sinner? Joint Organic Congress, Odense, Denmark, May 30-31, 2006.
relation: http://orgprints.org/7464/