Organic agriculture - the Nordic, European and global perspectives

Summary

The Nordic, European and global societies are focusing more and more on sustainable development including food production and the management of rural areas. Organic agri-culture is based on explicit values and with its basic principles of recycling, precaution and proximity it can be considered as a concrete model for developing a sustainable agricul-ture. This presentation focuses on seeing organic farming as a perspective rather than a niche for agriculture and on how we can use organic agriculture and its principle for de-veloping a more sustainable agriculture.