The Government
policy on organic agriculture aims to promote rural development but at the same time encourage the export of Australian organic products.
Future
studies on organic agriculture and other sustainable farming techniques should examine not just economics, but soil quality, biodiversity impacts and other aspects of food production in order to make better comparisons between different forms of agriculture, said Crowder.
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Americans headed home, taking with them memories of Argentina, hospitality, generosity, a new
perspective on organic agriculture, and hopes to build on the relationships they had established over the last week.
«There's been other meta -
analyses on organic agriculture that have shown that it enhances biodiversity of ecosystems and also helps promote the quality of nutrient cycling,» Crowder says.
Other activities in four municipalities in Mindanao include forum on golden rice and organic agriculture, organic food and products fair, press conference, concert, cultural presentations (reading of
poems on organic agriculture composed by farmers), t - shirts printing, dissemination of campaign materials, sharing of farmers» practices and innovations, boodle fight, and opening of organic trading post.
Moreover, the Organic Policy Summit should shed light on the question where and what research
activities on organic agriculture sciences are conducted in Central and Eastern Europe.
• Policy Support for countries developing Organic Agriculture • Information Exchanges on the best practices and innovations on Organic Agriculture • Mutual exchanges of local government personnel / experts & organic stakeholders • Education for local government
officials on organic agriculture • Hosting of the Annual ALGOA Summit • Others
This comprehensive collection of the latest available data (2016)
on organic agriculture worldwide contains data on area, operators, and retail sales: 57.8 million hectares of organic agricultural land and organic products with a total value of almost 90 billion US dollars were sold globally.
Data collection The
data on organic agriculture are collected annually by the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL); in collaboration with «IFOAM — Organics International» and further partners.
Ms. Scialabba is responsible for the cross-sectoral
programme on organic agriculture, in addition to other «green» tasks, where the challenge is to address the dual need to conserve natural resources while providing for an ever more demanding global population.
We will hold two AgriLife Extension workshops in the second year of the project, one in Vernon and one in Amarillo, to provide intensive
education on organic agriculture to those who are interested.»
Team members Kimura and Bell will work with Michael Schoppa at Vernon College in Vernon and Dr. Brock Blaser at West Texas A&M University in Canyon to develop a curriculum
section on organic agriculture.
In 1999, a joint workshop in Vignola, Italy, organized by The World Conservation Union (IUCN) and IFOAM together with the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), was held to exchange ideas and
information on organic agriculture and biodiversity.
Participants will have the opportunity to interact one - on - one with Rodale Institute experts and learn about a wide variety of research and demonstration projects, all
focused on organic agriculture.
Researchers David Crowder and John Reganold from Washington State University conducted a meta - analysis of 44
studies on organic agriculture, which included 55 crops grown in 14 countries across five continents.