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• 1. What is organic farming?
• 2. From past to present
• 3. The living soil
• 4. Pesticides, nitrates & BSE
• 5. GM foods
• 6. Maintaining soil fertility
• 7. Our influence on nature
• 8. The challenges ahead
• 9. A vision of the future.
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Organic Futures presents an overwhelming argument for replacing modern farming methods with organic techniques. Exploring the history, politics and practicalities of organic farming, Adrian Myers shows how the current techniques of agriculture and horticulture based on chemical fertilizers, which inevitably bring about the deterioration of soil life, cannot provide a long-term sustainable future for humankind. Organic Futures: Shows what we can learn from 4,000 years of sustainable organic agriculture in the Far East Explains how organic farming is different from conventional agriculture Demonstrates the damaging effects of conventional farming Discusses the importance of maintaining soil fertility Presents a vision of an organic future, including inspiring developments in both the West and the Third World.
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• Preface.Introduction.1. Science, Technology, and the Critics of Modernity.2. Science, Integrated Inquiry, and Verification.3. Reductionism: Sin, Salvation, or Neither?.4. On the Trail of DNA: Genes and Heredity.5. Vitalism and Homeopathy.6. Disenchantment and the Cost of Rejected Knowledge.7. Rejected Knowledge, Nature and the Occult.8. Vitalism, the Organic, and the Precautionary Principle.9. Feeding Six Billion People.10. Romantics and Reactionaries.11. Risk, Representation, and Change.Epilogue: Science, Technology, and Humanity.References.Index.
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"Origins of the Organic Agriculture Debate" takes an historical look at two contrasting streams of ideas. The first view comprises the flow of ideas in chemistry and biology that have created the conditions for modern medicine, modern food production and the biotechnological revolution. The second view is the 'vitalist' reaction to the rise of modern science and the resulting rejection of modern agriculture. Contemporary proponents of 'organic' agriculture and the anti-genetically modified food movement believe that 'pure' food confers some special kind of virtue both on those who produce it and those who consume it. They fail to acknowledge that organic chemistry, genetics, and molecular biology have been as essential to twentieth century advances in agriculture such as plant breeding, and are instrumental to ensuring that there is enough food for everyone." Origins of the Organic Agriculture Debate": begins with an exploration of the factors involved in our modern fear of technology, a fear which forms the foundation for anti-technology beliefs and practices; argues that vitalism is at the core of an array of contemporary anti-science and anti-technology movements; helps readers fully understand the ferocity with which certain beliefs about homeopathic medicine and the 'organic' are held against all evidence to the contrary; explains the history of nitrogen in life and in agriculture, countering myths of scarce resources and beliefs about the sufficiency of organic nitrogen to feed the world's population; purports that technology creates resources, debunking the idea that resources are natural, fixed and finite; and, updates and clarifies issues discussed in the author's previous works: "A Theory of Technology" (1985), "Agriculture and Modern Technology" (2001) and "The Environment, Our Natural Resources and Modern Technology" (2002).We need to better understand the forces of scientific and technological change if we are to control the negative elements of these forces, continue to advance the development of science and technology, and facilitate fuller participation in the benefits of our advancing capability to further the human endeavor. "Origins of the Organic Agriculture Debate" will provide a basis for this understanding.
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• The need for integration - farming and the environment, Fiona Reynolds-- a policy for forestry and woodland, Penny Evans-- phasing out pesticides, Michael Allaby-- the 21st-century peasant, Sir Richard Body, MP-- a symbol of hope - Africa's greenbelt movement, Wangaari Maathai-- indigenous rights - Colombia's policy for the Amazon, Peter Bunyard-- organic co-operatives in Japan, Koyu Furusawa-- recovering diversity - a future for India, Vandana Shiva-- earth and spirit - a tradition renewed, Robert Waller.
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Against a background of mounting public concern over issues such as factory farming, water pollution from agricultural wastes and the use of pesticides and herbicides, this book brings together the views of leading writers, campaigners and politicians. Looking at the global and national environmental pictures, they show how sustainable agricultural policies can and must be developed if we are to restore the productivity of our land.
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• 1: Roots of the Organic Challenge
• 2: The Cultural Soil of Organic Farming
• 3: Albert Howard and the World as Shropshire
• 4: The Howards in India
• 5: The Search for Pre-Modern Wisdom
• 6: The Compost Wars
• 7: To the Empire and Beyond
• 8: The Globalization of Organic Farming
• 9: The 1980s to the Present.
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Organic farming is a major global movement that is changing land-use and consumer habits around the world. This book tells the untold story of how the organic farming movement nearly faltered after an initial flurry of scientific interest and popular support. Drawing on newly-unearthed archives, Barton argues that organic farming first gained popularity in an imperial milieu before shifting to the left of the political spectrum after decolonization and served as a crucial middle stage of environmentalism. Modern organic protocols developed in British India under the guidance of Sir Albert Howard before spreading throughout parts of the British Empire, Europe, and the USA through the advocacy of his many followers and his second wife Louise. Organic farming advocates before and during World War II challenged the industrialization of agriculture and its reliance on chemical fertilizers. They came tantalizingly close to influencing government policy. The decolonization of the British Empire, the success of industrial agriculture, and the purging of holistic ideas from medicine side-lined organic farming advocates who were viewed increasingly as cranks and kooks. Organic farming advocates continued to spread their anti-chemical farming message through a small community that deeply influenced Rachel Carson's ideas in Silent Spring, a book that helped to legitimize anti-chemical concerns. The organic farming movement re-entered the scientific mainstream in the 1980s only with the reluctant backing of government policy. It has continued to grow in popularity ever since and explains why organic farming continues to inspire those who seek to align agriculture and health.
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• 1: Roots of the Organic Challenge
• 2: The Cultural Soil of Organic Farming
• 3: Albert Howard and the World as Shropshire
• 4: The Howards in India
• 5: The Search for Pre-Modern Wisdom
• 6: The Compost Wars
• 7: To the Empire and Beyond
• 8: The Globalization of Organic Farming
• 9: The 1980s to the Present.
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Organic farming is a major global movement that is changing land-use and consumer habits around the world. This book tells the untold story of how the organic farming movement nearly faltered after an initial flurry of scientific interest and popular support. Drawing on newly-unearthed archives, Barton argues that organic farming first gained popularity in an imperial milieu before shifting to the left of the political spectrum after decolonization and served as a crucial middle stage of environmentalism. Modern organic protocols developed in British India under the guidance of Sir Albert Howard before spreading throughout parts of the British Empire, Europe, and the USA through the advocacy of his many followers and his second wife Louise. Organic farming advocates before and during World War II challenged the industrialization of agriculture and its reliance on chemical fertilizers. They came tantalizingly close to influencing government policy. The decolonization of the British Empire, the success of industrial agriculture, and the purging of holistic ideas from medicine side-lined organic farming advocates who were viewed increasingly as cranks and kooks. Organic farming advocates continued to spread their anti-chemical farming message through a small community that deeply influenced Rachel Carson's ideas in Silent Spring, a book that helped to legitimize anti-chemical concerns. The organic farming movement re-entered the scientific mainstream in the 1980s only with the reluctant backing of government policy. It has continued to grow in popularity ever since and explains why organic farming continues to inspire those who seek to align agriculture and health.
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• 1: Roots of the Organic Challenge
• 2: The Cultural Soil of Organic Farming
• 3: Albert Howard and the World as Shropshire
• 4: The Howards in India
• 5: The Search for Pre-Modern Wisdom
• 6: The Compost Wars
• 7: To the Empire and Beyond
• 8: The Globalization of Organic Farming
• 9: The 1980s to the Present.
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Organic farming is a major global movement that is changing land-use and consumer habits around the world. This book tells the untold story of how the organic farming movement nearly faltered after an initial flurry of scientific interest and popular support. Drawing on newly-unearthed archives, Barton argues that organic farming first gained popularity in an imperial milieu before shifting to the left of the political spectrum after decolonization and served as a crucial middle stage of environmentalism. Modern organic protocols developed in British India under the guidance of Sir Albert Howard before spreading throughout parts of the British Empire, Europe, and the USA through the advocacy of his many followers and his second wife Louise. Organic farming advocates before and during World War II challenged the industrialization of agriculture and its reliance on chemical fertilizers. They came tantalizingly close to influencing government policy. The decolonization of the British Empire, the success of industrial agriculture, and the purging of holistic ideas from medicine side-lined organic farming advocates who were viewed increasingly as cranks and kooks. Organic farming advocates continued to spread their anti-chemical farming message through a small community that deeply influenced Rachel Carson's ideas in Silent Spring, a book that helped to legitimize anti-chemical concerns. The organic farming movement re-entered the scientific mainstream in the 1980s only with the reluctant backing of government policy. It has continued to grow in popularity ever since and explains why organic farming continues to inspire those who seek to align agriculture and health.
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• 1. Introduction
• 2. Transformations in China's Food System
• 3. Top-down Initiatives: State Support for Ecological and Organic Agriculture in China
• 4. The Farmers' Cooperative Model in China's Ecological Agriculture Sector
• 5. Bottom-up initiatives: The Emergence of 'Alternative' Food Networks
• 6. Economic, Ecological and Interpersonal Dimensions of Alternative Food Networks
• 7. Farmers' Markets as Contested Spaces: Case Study of the Beijing Organic Farmers' Market
• 8. Promising Community Organizing in China's AFNs
• 9. Rural Development Initiatives amid Food Safety Crisis: Strategies, Challenges and Opportunities in the "New Rural Reconstruction Movement" in China
• 10. Conclusion.
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Despite reports of food safety and quality scandals, China has a rapidly expanding organic agriculture and food sector, and there is a revolution in ecological food and ethical eating in China's cities. This book shows how a set of social, economic, cultural, and environmental conditions have converged to shape the development of a "formal" organic sector, created by "top-down" state-developed standards and regulations, and an "informal" organic sector, created by 'bottom-up' grassroots struggles for safe, healthy, and sustainable food. This is generating a new civil movement focused on ecological agriculture and quality food. Organic movements and markets have typically emerged in industrialized food systems that are characterized by private land ownership, declining small farm sectors, consolidated farm to retail chains, predominance of supermarket retail, standards and laws to safeguard food safety, and an active civil society sector. The authors contrast this with the Chinese context, with its unique version of "capitalism with social characteristics, " collective farmland ownership, and predominance of smallholder agriculture and emerging diverse marketing channels. China's experience also reflects a commitment to domestic food security, evolving food safety legislation, and a civil society with limited autonomy from a semi-authoritarian state that keeps shifting the terrain of what is permitted. The book will be of great interest to advanced students and researchers of agricultural and food systems and policy, as well as rural sociology and Chinese studies.
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• List of Tables List of Abbreviations Preface to the Second Edition Acknowledgments Maps
• 1. Agrarian Dreams
• 2. Finding the Way: Roads to Organic Production
• 3. Organic Farming: Ideal Practices and Practical Ideals
• 4. California Dreaming: California's Agro-Industrial Legacy
• 5. Organic Sediment: A Geography of Organic Production
• 6. Conventionalizing Organic: From Social Movement to Industry via Regulation
• 7. Organic Regulation Ramified
• 8. California Organics, Fifteen Years On Appendix Notes Glossary References Index.
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In this ground breaking study of organic farming, Julie Guthman challenges accepted wisdom about organic food and agriculture in the Golden State. Many continue to believe that small-scale organic farming is the answer to our environmental and health problems, but Guthman refutes popular portrayals that pit "small organic" against "big organic" and offers an alternative analysis that underscores the limits of an organic label as a pathway to transforming agriculture. This second edition includes a thorough investigation of the federal organic program, a discussion of how the certification arena has continued to grow and change since its implementation, and an up-to-date guide to the structure of the organic farming sector. Agrarian Dreams delivers an indispensable examination of organic farming in California and will appeal to readers in a variety of areas, including food studies, agriculture, environmental studies, anthropology, sociology, geography, and history.
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• Introduction - organic agriculture, sustainability and policy, D. Jones-- what is organic agriculture? What I learned from my transition, B. Liebhardt.
• Part 1 Organic agriculture and sustainability: organic agriculture and the environment - overview-- organic agriculture and the environment - case studies-- economic and social aspects of organic agriculture. Part II The organic market: marketing and trading issues for organic products-- issues for producers for organic products-- issues for consumers of organic products-- labelling, standards and regulations-- conversion and support payments-- research information and communication.
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This book contains papers by experts in the field and covers the key issues facing organic agriculture. Anyone with an interest in organic agriculture should find this a valuable book.
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