Organic Food Systems: Meeting the Needs of Southern Africa

• Main Author: Auerbach, Raymond (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: CABI 2020
• Subjects: Organic farming; Agricultural science; Southern Africa; Chordata; Least Developed Countries; self sufficiency; agricultural systems; ACP Countries; plant diseases; organic foods; animals; pest control; Hominidae; eukaryotes; Threshold Countries; water supplies; primates; Commonwealth of Nations; Tanzania; Africa; plant pests; Zambia; plant pathogens; Homo; soil fertility; sustainability; Tanganyika; vertebrates; water use efficiency; soil fumigation; eco-agriculture; mammals; South Africa; Developing Countries; energy utilization; organic culture; East Africa; plant disease control; pests; value chain; climatic change; soil; training; ecological agriculture; pathogens; pesticides; energy use; water use; phytopathogens; biocontrol; integrated plant protection; soil flora; water supply; Africa South of Sahara; SADC Countries; subsaharan Africa; Uganda; Anglophone Africa; capacity building
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

This book reports on long-term comparative organic farming systems' research trials carried out over the last 5 years in the Southern Cape of South Africa, as well as research into the successes and failures of the organic sector and the technical tools required for sustainable development in S...