Mediterranean agriculture has coevolved with harsh environments and changing climate
conditions over millennia, generating an extremely rich heritage of traditional knowledge; …

Growing populations and a constrained fossil-manufactured energy supply present a major
challenge for society and there is a real need to develop forms of agriculture that are less …

With all of the environmental and social problems confronting our food systems today, it is
apparent that none of the strategies we have relied on in the pasthigher-yielding varieties …

China is the largest rice producing and consuming country in the world, but rice production
has given way to the production of vegetables during the past twenty years. The government …

One organic farming treatment (OF) and two integrated farming treatments (IF) with (i)
situation-related pesticide use (100% HF), and (ii) application rates reduced by 50% in …

About 130 studies were analyzed to compare farm-level energy use and global warming
potential (GWP) of organic and conventional production sectors. Cross cutting issues such …

Analisando a abordagem conceitual dos ideários de Agroecologia e da Promoção da
Saúde, percebe-se a aproximação desses campos científicos e práticos a partir de suas …

Peak oil is the phenomenon whereby global oil supplies will peak, then decline, with
extraction growing increasingly costly. Today's globalized industrial food system depends on …

This study was conducted to determine how energy balances of crop production are affected
by three farming systems (conventional, conservation with no tillage, and organic) and four …

Organic farming aims to stimulate soil fertility by avoiding the use of synthetic fertiliser inputs,
relying instead on locally available natural resources. It is regarded by many as a …