Organic agriculture: a global vision and research strategy

Summary

Content
- Strengths and weaknesses of organic agriculture
- Yields: state-of-the-art of literature
- Opportunities and threats
- Mainstreaming not achieved so far
- Voluntary sustainability standards getting important
- Production size of different voluntary SS
- SOOAN is a major step forward: Looking at organic farming development with the help of sustainability indicators and metrics
- Annual spendings for organic research
- Vision
- Innovation pathway
- Pathway 1: Organic farming and food systems crucially empower rural areas across the whole world and help to stop migration from the land.
- Pathway 2: Securing food and ecosystems by eco-functional intensification.
- Pathway 3: High quality foods – a basis for healthy diets and a key to improving the quality of life and health.
- The challenge