Organic agriculture for sustainable livelihoods / edited by Niels Halberg, Adrian Muller.
Material type: TextSeries: Earthscan food and agriculturePublication details: London : Earthscan, 2012.Description: 1 volume : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:- 1849712964
- 9781849712965
- Organic farming -- Social aspects
- Organic farming -- Economic aspects
- Organic farming -- Environmental aspects
- Sustainable agriculture -- Social aspects
- Sustainable agriculture -- Economic aspects
- Sustainable agriculture -- Environmental aspects
- Sustainability
- Quality of life
- Rural development
- Sustainable development
- 631.584 HAL
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Standard Loan | Thurles Library Main Collection | 631.584 HAL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 39002100627489 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This book provides a timely analysis and assessment of the potential of organic agriculture (OA) for rural development and the improvement of livelihoods. It focuses on smallholders in developing countries and in countries of economic transition, but there is also coverage of and comparisons with developed countries. It covers market-oriented approaches and challenges for OA as part of high value chains and as an agro-ecologically based development for improving food security. It demonstrates the often unrecognised roles that organic farming can play in climate change, food security and sovereignty, carbon sequestration, cost internalisations, ecosystems services, human health and the restoration of degraded landscapes.
The chapters specifically provide readers with:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Organic agriculture, livelihoods and development / Niels Halberg and Adrian Muller -- Case 1: Carbon credits from organic agriculture : Experiences from Costa-Rica / Jonathan Castro and Manuel Amador -- Consequences of organic agriculture for smallholder farmer\'s livelihood and food security / P. Panneerselvam, N. Halberg and S. Lockie -- Globalization of organic food chains and the environmental impacts / John E Hermansen, Marie T. Knudsen and Christian Schader -- The use of agro-ecological methods in organic farming / Y.H. Qiao, N. Halberg and M. Oelofse -- Case 2: Life cycle assessment (LCA) of organic orange juice imported from Brazil to Denmark : a case study / Marie Trydeman Knudsen, Niels Halberg, Gustavo Fonseca de Almeida, Lucimar Santiago de Abreu, Vibeke Langer and John E. Hermansen -- The Potential of Organic Agriculture for Contributing to Climate Change Adaptation / Adrian Muller, Balgis Osman-Elasha and Lise Andreasen -- Organic Agriculture Governance in the Global South : New Opportunities for Participation in Agricultural Development and Livelihood Outcomes / Kristen Lyons, Gomathy Palaniappan and Stewart Lockie.
The possibilities for inclusion of smallholder farmers in organic market chain development / Paul Rye Kledal, Frank Eyhorn, Bo van Elzakker and Elsio Antonio Pereira de Figueiredo -- Case 3: Certified organic and fair trade impacts on smallholders livelihoods in Kandy case area- Sri Lanka / S. Vaheesan, K. Zoysa and N. Halberg -- Policies and Actions to Support Organic Agriculture / Sofia Twarog -- Comparative institutional analyses of certified organic agriculture conditions in Brazil and China / Henrik Egelyng, Lucimar de Abreau, Luping Li and Maria Fernanda Fonseca -- The dynamics and recomposition of agroecology in Latin America / L.S. de Abreu and S. Bellon -- Case 4: Food security obtained through Farmer Family Learning Group approaches : Description of a project between Organic Denmark, NOGAMU and SATNET Uganda / Inge Lis Dissing, Jane Nalunga, Thaddeo Tibasiima, and Aage Dissing, Mette Vaarst -- Research needs for development of organic agriculture in sub Saharan Africa / Charles Ssekyewa, Francisca George and Adrian Muller.
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Niels Halberg is Director of the International Centre for Research in Organic Food Systems (ICROFS), Tjele, Denmark. His publications include the co-edited book Global Development of Organic Agriculture (2006).
Adrian Muller has a dual appointment as Senior Researcher at the Forschungsinstitut für biologischen Landbau (FiBL / Research Institute of Organic Agriculture), Frick, Switzerland and at the Professorship of Environmental Policy and Economics (PEPE) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH Zurich, Switzerland.