Permaculture Research Digest

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Showing posts with label organic farming. Show all posts
Showing posts with label organic farming. Show all posts
Thursday, 30 June 2016

The science of organic farming (book)

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Science and Technology of Organic Farming Organic farming is not only a philosophy, but also a well-researched science that combines soil ...
Wednesday, 16 July 2014

Organic food is better for you (journal)

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Higher antioxidant and lower cadmium concentrations and lower incidence of pesticide residues in organically grown crops: a systematic lite...

Scaling up agro-ecology (online)

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Overcoming Obstacles to Agroecology A half-century of research and practice in agroecology has yielded spectacular results for hundred...
Wednesday, 18 June 2014

Farmer designed organic systems (#journal)

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Farmers and agronomists design new biological agricultural practices for organic cropping systems in France Current innovations in organ...

Organic rice-prawn aquaculture (#journal)

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Organic rice–prawn farming yields 20% higher revenues Organic farming of rice and giant river prawns in rotational crops was tested in...

Winter legume rotation improves rice yield (#journal)

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Winter legumes in rice crop rotations reduces nitrogen loss, and improves rice yield and soil nitrogen supply Intensive irrigated rice-...

Low input maize for biofuel (#journal)

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Efficient biofuel production from traditional maize under low input Traditional crop varieties are adapted to low inputs of fertilizers,...
Monday, 12 May 2014

Uk agriculture facts website (online)

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UK Agriculture  This web site about agriculture and farming was established in 1999 in an attempt to help widen understanding about the...
Thursday, 13 February 2014

Environmental impact of conventional vs. organic (#journal)

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Environmental Impact of Different Agricultural Management Practices: Conventional vs. Organic Agriculture This paper carries out a comp...

The need for agro-ecology - a lit review (#journal)

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Is There a Need for a More Sustainable Agriculture? In this paper the environmental impact of current agriculture is reviewed. Soil lo...

Organic yields average 80% of conventional (#journal)

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The crop yield gap between organic and conventional agriculture A key issue in the debate on the contribution of organic agriculture t...