Sustainable Agriculture-Beyond Organic Farming

• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2016
• Subjects: Technology, engineering, agriculture; humane; animal welfare; agroecology; ecolabelling; fair trade; local; third-party certification; ethical consumerism; green supply chains; diet; organic farming; sustainable agriculture; food systems
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

The current conception of organic farming is the result of nearly a century of intellectual thought and dialogue, field observations and experiences, systematic experimentation, and codification of rules. Debates on the future viability of organic farming often focus on its capacity to produce suffi...