Organic farming - stewardship for food security, food quality, environment and nature conservation

9311 1 archive 132 disk0/00/00/93/11 2006-09-27 2009-08-20 14:34:03 2009-08-20 14:34:03 conference_item show 0 en fal-oel de-jki-pflanzenbau-bodenkunde uk-sac 18-20 September 2006 COR 2006 Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK yes 79 0 TRUE paper Schnug Ewald Haneklaus Silvia Rahmann Gerold Paulsen Hans-Marten Walker Robin Organic farming - stewardship for food security, food quality, environment and nature conservation pub environment 1organics authenticity, earthworm, ecobalance, flooding, image forming methods, plant health, sustainability Der Beitrag wurde in Abstimmung mit den anderen Autoren eingestellt. Conventional agriculture is associated with problems such as pesticide residues in soils and plants, contamination of meat with antibiotics and hormones, and eutrophication of water bodies. An alternative for consumers is the consumption of products from organic farming. Organic management is possible on arable farms, although livestock is often a crucial part of the system as manure and slurry can contribute significantly to maintaining closed nutrient cycles. Independent of the management system, it is not possible to exclude nutrient losses to the environment on agricultural fields, but acceptable loads need to be defined. Organic farming can contribute to environmental protection and nature conservation in many ways, for instance by improving soil porosity which yields higher infiltration rates and thus contributes significantly towards mitigating flooding peaks. It is the objective of this contribution to provide a holistic appraisal of what organic farming is going to deliver. 2006 published Aspects of Applied Biology What will organic farming deliver? AAB Office, Warwick, UK Atkinson Chris Younie David public 57-62 6918 1 9311 1 application/pdf en public

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