Sustainable Development of Organic Agriculture: Historical Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9781774636909 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 336 str.

Kimberly Etingoff

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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

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The Organic Food Philosophy: A Qualitative Exploration of the Practices, Values, and Beliefs of Dutch Organic Consumers Within a Cultural–Historical Frame. Organic Farming: The Arrival and Uptake of the Dissident Agriculture Meme in Australia. Overview of the Global Spread of Conservation Agriculture. The Transition from Green to Evergreen Revolution. A Review of Long-Term Organic Comparison Trials in the U.S.. Keeping the Actors in the Organic System Learning: The Role of Organic Farmers’ Experiments. Supporting Innovation in Organic Agriculture: A European Perspective Using Experience from the SOLID Project. Organic Farming and Sustainable Agriculture in Malaysia: Organic Farmers’ Challenges Towards Adoption. Are Organic Standards Sufficient to Ensure Sustainable Agriculture? Lessons From New Zealand’s ARGOS and Sustainability Dashboard Projects. An Ecologically Sustainable Approach to Agricultural Production Intensification: Global Perspectives and Developments. Tracing the Evolution of Organic/Sustainable Agriculture: A Selected and Annotated Bibliography. Twenty-First-Century Organic and Sustainable Farming: A Brief Annotated Bibliography.

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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.