1st Edition

Sustainable Development of Organic Agriculture Historical Perspectives

Edited By Kimberly Etingoff Copyright 2016
336 Pages 7 Color & 12 B/W Illustrations
by Apple Academic Press

336 Pages 7 Color & 12 B/W Illustrations
by Apple Academic Press

336 Pages 7 Color & 12 B/W Illustrations
by Apple Academic Press

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters. This important compilation presents an in-depth view spanning past values and practices, present understandings, and potential futures, and covering a range of concrete case studies on sustainable development of organic agriculture. The book explores the very different facets of organic and sustainable agriculture. Part I of this... Read more

The Organic Food Philosophy: A Qualitative Exploration of the Practices, Values, and Beliefs of Dutch Organic Consumers Within a Cultural–Historical Frame

Hanna Schosler, Joop de Boer, and Jan J. Boersema

Organic Farming: The Arrival and Uptake of the Dissident Agriculture Meme in Australia

John Paul

Overview of the Global Spread of Conservation Agriculture

Theodor Friedrich, Rolf Derpsch, and Amir Kassam

The Transition from Green to Evergreen Revolution

M.S. Swaminathan and P.C. Kesavan

A Review of Long-Term Organic Comparison Trials in the U.S.

Kathleen Delate, Cynthia Cambardella, Craig Chase, and Robert Turnbull

Keeping the Actors in the Organic System Learning: The Role of Organic Farmers’ Experiments

Christian R. Vogl, Susanne Kummer, Friedrich Leitgeb, Christoph Schunko, and Magdalena Aigner

Supporting Innovation in Organic Agriculture: A European Perspective Using Experience from the SOLID Project

Susanne Padel, Mette Vaarst, and Konstantinos Zaralis

Organic Farming and Sustainable Agriculture in Malaysia: Organic Farmers’ Challenges Towards Adoption

Neda Tiraieyari, Azimi Hamzah, and Bahaman Abu Samah

Are Organic Standards Sufficient to Ensure Sustainable Agriculture? Lessons From New Zealand’s ARGOS and Sustainability Dashboard Projects

Charles Merfield, Henrik Moller, Jon Manhire, Chris Rosin, Solis Norton, Peter Carey, Lesley Hunt, John Reid, John Fairweather, Jayson Benge, Isabelle Le Quellec, Hugh Campbell, David Lucock, Caroline Saunders, Catriona MacLeod, Andrew Barber, and Alaric McCarthy

An Ecologically Sustainable Approach to Agricultural Production Intensification: Global Perspectives and Developments

Amir Kassam and Theodor Friedrich

Tracing the Evolution of Organic/Sustainable Agriculture: A Selected and Annotated Bibliography

Mary V. Gold and Jane Potter Gates

Twenty-First-Century Organic and Sustainable Farming: A Brief Annotated Bibliography

Kim Etingoff

Biography

Kim Etingoff has a Tufts University’s terminal master’s degree in Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning. Her recent experience includes researching with Initiative for a Competitive Inner City a report on food resiliency within the city of Boston. She worked in partnership with Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative and Alternatives for Community and Environment to support a community food-planning process based in a Boston neighborhood, which was oriented toward creating a vehicle for community action around urban food issues, providing extensive background research to ground the resident-led planning process. She has worked in the Boston Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics, and has also coordinated and developed programs in urban agriculture and nutrition education. In addition, she has many years of experience researching, writing, and editing educational and academic books on environmental and food issues.