Setting and reviewing standards for organic farming

Setting and reviewing standards for organic farmingOne of the cornerstones of organic farming is the fact that it is governed by clear standards which are legally protected in many parts of the world, but there is concern that the current certification system does not fully safeguard the objectives and principles of the movement and encourage further improvements in sustainability. The chapter provides a brief history of organic standard development, and introduces the values and principles of organic

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This chapter reviews the sources of variation in resistance to disease

economic and cultural consequences

The chapter examines differences in development and application of deterministic explanatory and data-based models for real-time control and decision support systems (DSS) using soft sensors and the application of planning tools

they examine media systems throughout Europe and report on their conditions for independence and pluralism

This book offers some answers to these questions from the perspective of the social sciences

which will help to overcome the limitations of single sensors and provide better information about grassland composition

with an unprecedented study of a small settlement's economy and society in the Mycenaean period

the late Yale University professor Warren Cowgill (1929-1985)

scientists have explored its virulence and interactions with the host

and reliance on pesticide use has led to a decline in ecosystem services