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Organic Farming, Prototype for Sustainable Agricultures

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Editors:
  1. Stéphane Bellon

    1. Unité Ecodéveloppement, INRA, Avignon Cedex 09, France

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  2. Servane Penvern

    1. Unité Ecodéveloppement, INRA, Avignon Cedex 09, France

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  • Qualified authors involved in organic research (projects), from various disciplines and countries
  • Wide range of topics addressed, relevant for the development of organic and sustainable agricultures
  • Updated results and references, thematic index

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Table of contents (25 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Organic Food and Farming as a Prototype for Sustainable Agricultures

    • Stéphane Bellon, Servane Penvern
    Pages 1-19

  3. System’s Functioning

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21
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    2. Soil Phosphorus Management in Organic Cropping Systems: From Current Practices to Avenues for a More Efficient Use of P Resources

      • Thomas Nesme, Bruno Colomb, Philippe Hinsinger, Christine A. Watson
      Pages 23-45

    3. Eco-functional Intensification by Cereal-Grain Legume Intercropping in Organic Farming Systems for Increased Yields, Reduced Weeds and Improved Grain Protein Concentration

      • Laurent Bedoussac, Étienne-Pascal Journet, Henrik Hauggaard-Nielsen, Christophe Naudin, Guénaëlle Corre-Hellou, Loïc Prieur et al.
      Pages 47-63

    4. Regulatory Framework for Plant Protection in Organic Farming

      • Bernhard Speiser, Lucius Tamm, Franco P. Weibel
      Pages 65-82

    5. Conservation Biocontrol: Principles and Implementation in Organic Farming

      • Sylvaine Simon, Adrien Rusch, Eric Wyss, Jean-Pierre Sarthou
      Pages 83-105

    6. Agroecological Crop Protection in Organic Farming: Relevance and Limits

      • Jean-Philippe Deguine, Servane Penvern
      Pages 107-130

    7. Adapting Apple Ideotypes to Low-Input Fruit Production Agro-Ecosystems

      • Luciana Parisi, Laurent Jamar, Marc Lateur, François Laurens, Pierre-Eric Lauri
      Pages 131-148

    8. Alternatives to Synthetic Chemical Antiparasitic Drugs in Organic Livestock Farming in Europe

      • Hervé Hoste, Smaragda Sotiraki, Helena Mejer, Felix Heckendorn, Veronika Maurer, Stig Thamsborg
      Pages 149-169

    9. Animal Healthcare Strategies in Organic and Conventional Farming

      • Christian Nicourt, Jacques Cabaret
      Pages 171-179

    10. Optimisation of Breeding Systems and Land Use to Maximise Feed Self-Sufficiency and Economic Outcomes in Organic Sheep-for-Meat Production

      • Marc Benoit, Gabriel Laignel
      Pages 181-200

    11. Experiencing Organic Mixed Crop Dairy Systems: A Step-by-Step Design Centred on a Long-term Experiment

      • Xavier Coquil, Jean-Louis Fiorelli, André Blouet, Catherine Mignolet
      Pages 201-217

  4. Organic Performances

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 219-219
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    2. Using Life Cycle Analysis to Analyse the Environmental Performances of Organic and Non-organic Apple Orchards

      • Aude Alaphilippe, Sylvaine Simon, Frank Hayer
      Pages 221-238

    3. The Potential of Organic Agriculture to Mitigate the Influence of Agriculture on Global Warming—A Review

      • Adrian Muller, Claude Aubert
      Pages 239-259

    4. The Freedoms and Capabilities of Farm Animals: How Can Organic Husbandry Fulfill Them?

      • Jacques Cabaret, Caroline Chylinski, Mette Vaarst
      Pages 261-278

    5. Breaking with the Animal Production Paradigm: A Major Issue for Organic Husbandry

      • Jocelyne Porcher
      Pages 279-293

    6. Food Quality and Possible Positive Health Effects of Organic Products

      • Denis Lairon, Machteld Huber
      Pages 295-312

    7. Advances, Issues and Challenges in Organic Lamb Meat Quality

      • Sophie Prache
      Pages 313-324
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About this book

Stakeholders show a growing interest for organic food and farming (OF&F), which becomes a societal component. Rather than questioning whether OF&F outperforms conventional agriculture or not, the main question addressed in this book is how, and in what conditions, OF&F may be considered as a prototype towards sustainable agricultures. The book gathers 25 papers introduced in a first chapter. The first section investigates OF&F production processes and its capacity to benefit from the systems functioning to achieve higher self-sufficiency. The second one proposes an overview of organic performances providing commodities and public goods. The third one focuses on organics development pathways within agri-food systems and territories. As well as a strong theoretical component, this book provides an overview of the new challenges for research and development. It questions the benefits as well as knowledge gaps with a particular emphasis on bottlenecks and lock-in effects at various levels.

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  • Unité Ecodéveloppement, INRA, Avignon Cedex 09, France

    Stéphane Bellon, Servane Penvern

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