1. Family managed farming, organic and conventional, is in crisis in many areas because policy makers and the general public do not know what values would be lost if industrial agriculture swept the ...

Organic farming might work well for certain local ... the ability of future generations to provide for themselves. When a process is sustainable, it can be carried out over and over without ...

Productivity is lower on organic farms. ADVANTAGES Chemical-free ... plants which yielded large amounts of crops to sell. This process, based on natural cross-breeding, takes years to produce ...

A new study suggests that a switch to 100% organic food production in England and Wales would see an overall increase in greenhouse gas emissions. While going fully organic would produce fewer ...

As a result, the farm is now almost completely free of pesticides and fertilisers, and can officially start the two-year process of becoming organic. Estate bosses said this means the entire site is ...

the use of which in crop production can improve yields on organic farms by 30%. " We're focusing all our capabilities on facilitating an orderly restructuring process. We are evaluating the ...