title: Biological Control in Organic Production: First choice or last option?
creator: Speiser, Bernhard
creator: Wyss, Eric
creator: Maurer, Veronika
subject:  Regulation
subject:  Values, standards and certification
description: "Biological agriculture" is a synonym for organic farming, but the term was developed independently from ‘biological control’. Therefore, it cannot be taken for granted that all methods of biological control are acceptable or even a first choice in organic farming. In this chapter, we explore the attitude of organic farming towards methods of biological control. Although organic farming has become popular during the last decade, organic farms are still a minority in all countries.     Furthermore there is a lack of profound knowledge about the regulatory framework for organic farming (i.e. public regulations and private standards). Therefore, we will firstly give a brief introduction to organic farming.
publisher: Springer; Dordrecht, The Netherlands
contributor: Eilenberg, J.
contributor: Hokkanen, H.
date: 2006
type: Book chapter
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: http://orgprints.org/8357/1/speiser-etal-2006-biological_control-preprint.pdf
identifier: Speiser, Bernhard; Wyss, Eric and Maurer, Veronika (2006) Biological Control in Organic Production: First choice or last option? In: Eilenberg, J. and Hokkanen, H. (Eds.) An Ecological and Societal Approach to Biological Control, Springer; Dordrecht, The Netherlands, pp. 27-46.
relation: http://orgprints.org/8357/