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Title Global development of organic agriculture : challenges and prospects / edited by Niels Halberg [and others]
Published Wallingford : CABI, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 377 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series CAB books
CAB books
Contents Global trends in agriculture and food systems / Marie Trydeman Knudsen, Niels Halberg, Jørgen E. Olesen, John Byrne, Venkatesh Iyer and Noah Toly -- Globalization and sustainable development : a political ecology strategy to realize ecological justice / John Byrne, Leigh Glover and Hugo F. Alrøe -- Organic agriculture and ecological justice : ethics and practice / Hugo F. Alrøe, John Byrne and Leigh Glover -- Ecological economics and organic farming / Paul Rye Kledal, Chris Kjeldsen, Karen Refsgaard and Peter Söderbaum -- Organic farming in a world of free trade / Christian Friis Bach -- Certified and non-certified organic farming in the developing world / Nicholas Parrott, Jørgen E. Olesen and Henning Høgh-Jensen -- Possibilities for closing the urban-rural nutrient cycles / Karen Refsgaard, Petter D. Jenssen and Jakob Magid -- Soil fertility depletion in sub-Saharan Africa : what is the role of organic agriculture? / John Pender and Ole Mertz -- Sustainable veterinary medical practices in organic farming : a global perspective / Mette Vaarst, Stephen Roderick, Denis K. Byarugaba, Sofie Kobayashi, Chris Rubaire-Akiiki and Hubert J. Karreman -- The impact of organic farming on food security in a regional and global perspective / Niels Halberg, Timothy B. Sulser, Henning Høgh-Jensen, Mark W. Rosegrant and Marie Trydeman Knudsen -- Towards a global research programme for organic food and farming / Henrik Egelyng and Henning Høgh-Jensen -- Synthesis : prospects for organic agriculture in a global context / Niels Halberg, Hugo F. Alrøe and Erik Steen Kristensen
Summary Begins by outlining the history and science of bacteriology and gives an overview of the diversity and versatility of complex bacteria. This book then explains the characterization, identification and naming of complex bacteria, and explores how bacteria can cause disease, and how plants react to such disease
Notes Studies initiated by the Danish Research Centre for Organic Food and Farming
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Organic farming.
Natural foods industry.
Sustainable development.
sustainable development.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- Organic.
Ethics.
Food security.
Food supply.
Free trade.
Globalization.
Natural resource economics.
Organic farming.
Politics.
Soil fertility.
Sustainability.
Veterinary medicine.
World.
Natural foods industry
Organic farming
Sustainable development
Form Electronic book
Author Halberg, Niels.
Forskningscenter for Økologisk Jordbrug.
C.A.B. International.
ISBN 9781845930783
1845930789
9781845930790
1845930797
1281765538
9781281765536
9786611765538
6611765530