Organic agricultural practices : alternatives to conventional agricultural systems /
edited by Kimberly Etingoff.
- xxviii, 387 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part I: Organic agricultural results compared with conventional agriculture. Evaluating the sustainability of a small-scale low-input organic vegetable supply system in the United Kingdom / Mads V. Markussen, Michal Kulak, Laurence G. Smith, Thomas Nemecek, and Hanne Ostergard -- Soil organisms in organic and conventional cropping systems / Wagner Bettiol, Raquel Ghini, Jos�e Abrah�ao Haddad Galv�ao, Marcos Ant�onio Vieira Ligo, and Jeferson Luiz de Carvalho Mineiro -- Localizing the nitrogen imprint of the Paris food supply: the potential of organic farming and changes in human diet / G. Billen, J. Garnier, V. Thieu, M. Silvestre, S. Barles, and P. Chatzimpiros -- Comparative growth analysis of Callistephus Chinensis L. using vermicompost and chemical fertilizer / Dulal Chandra Das -- Comparison of the farming system and carbon sequestration between conventional and organic rice production in West Java, Indonesia / Masakazu Komatsuzaki and M. Faiz Syuaib -- Part II: Biofertilizers. Residual influence of organic materials, crop residues, and biofertilizers on performance of succeeding mung bean in an organic rice-based cropping system / Mohammadreza Davari, Shri Niwas Sharma, and Mohammad Mirzakhani -- Evaluation of biofertilizers in irrigated rice: effects on grain yield at different fertilizer rate / Nino Paul Meynard Banayo, Pompe C. Sta. Cruz, Edna A. Aguilar, Rodrigo B. Badayos, and Stephan M. Haefele -- Effects of fertilizer and plant density on yield and quality of anise (Pimpinella Anisum L.) / Mahdi Faravani, Behjat Salari, Mostafa Heidari, Mohammad Taghi Kashki, and Barat Ali Gholami Microbial diversity of vermicompost bacteria that exhibit useful agricultural traits and waste management potential / Jayakumar Pathma and Natarajan Sakthivel -- Part III: Plant cultivars in organic agriculture. Characteristics important for organic breeding of vegetable crops / Jasmina Zdravkovic, Nenad Pavlovic, Zdenka Girek, Milan Zdravkovic, and Dejan Cvikic -- Collaborative plant breeding for organic agricultural systems in developed countries / Julie C. Dawson, Pierre Riviere, Jean-Francois Berthellot, Florent Mercier, Patrick de Kochko, Nathalie Galic, Sophie Pin, Estelle Serpolay, Mathieu Thomas, Simon Giuliano, and Isabelle Goldringer -- Phenotypic changes in different spinach varieties grown and selected under organic conditions / Estelle Serpolay, Nicolas Schermann, Julie Dawson, Edith T. Lammerts van Bueren, Isabelle Goldringer, and Veronique Chable -- Part IV: Environmental effects of organic agriculture. Soil enzyme activates, microbial communities, and carbon and nitrogen availability in organic agroecosystems across an intensively-managed agricultural landscape / Timothy M. Bowles, Veronica Acosta-Martinez, Francisco Calderon and Louise E. Jackson -- Nitrate leaching from intensive organic farms to groundwater / O. Dahan, A. Babad, N. Lazarovitch, E.E. Russak, and D. Kurtzman -- Improving nitrogen use efficiency in crops for sustainable agriculture / Bertrand Hirel, Thierry Tetu, Peter J. Lea, and Frederic Dubois.