Agriculture and food systems, including organic agriculture, are undergoing a technological and structural modernization strongly influenced by growing globalization. Organic agricultural movements can be seen as a tangible effort towards more sustainable development. However, there are large differences between, on the one hand, industrialized farming and consumption based on global food chains and, on the other, smallholder farmers and resource poor people primarily linked in local food markets in low-income countries.
This book provides an overview of the potential role of organic agriculture in a global perspective. The book discusses in-depth political ecology, ecological justice, ecological economics and free trade with new insights on the challenges for organic agriculture. This is followed by the potential role of organic agriculture for improving soil fertility, nutrient cycling and food security and reducing veterinary medicine use, together with discussions of research needs and the importance of non-certified organic agriculture.
1: Global trends in agriculture and food systems, 2: Globalisation and
sustainable development: a potential ecology strategy to realize ecological
justice, 3: Organic agriculture and ecological justice: Ethics and practice,
4: Ecological Economics and organic farming, 5: Organic farming in a world of
free trade, 6: Certified and non-certified organic farming in the developing
world, 7: Possibilities for closing the urban rural nutrient cycles, 8: Soil
Fertility Depletion Sub-Saharan Africa: What is the Role of Organic
Agriculture, 9: Sustainable veterinary medical practices in organic farming:
a global perspective, 10: The impact of organic farming on food security in a
regional and global perspective, 11: Towards a global research programme for
organic food and farming, 12: Synthesis: The potential of organic farming in
a globalised world,
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