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SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF ORGANIC AGRICULTURE Historical Perspectives SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF ORGANIC AGRICULTURE Historical Perspectives Edited by Kim Etingoff Apple Academic Press Inc. Apple Academic Press Inc. 3333 Mistwell Crescent 9 Spinnaker Way Oakville, ON L6L 0A2 Waretown, NJ 08758 Canada USA ©2017 by Apple Academic Press, Inc. Exclusive worldwide distribution by CRC Press, a member of Taylor & Francis Group No claim to original U.S. Government works Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper International Standard Book Number-13: 978-1-77188-483-9 (Hardcover) International Standard Book Number-13: 978-1-315-36580-0 (CRC Press/Taylor & Francis eBook) International Standard Book Number-13: 978-1-77188-484-6 (AAP eBook) All rights reserved. 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Etingoff, Kim, author, editor S605.5.S87 2017 631.5'84 C2016-906573-1 C2016-906574-X Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Etingoff, Kim. Title: Sustainable development of organic agriculture : historical perspectives / editor, Kim Etingoff. Description: Waretown, NJ : Apple Academic Press, 2017. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2016050046 (print) | LCCN 2016052332 (ebook) | ISBN 9781771884839 (hardcover : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781315365800 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Organic farming. | Sustainable agriculture. Classification: LCC S605.5 .S985 2017 (print) | LCC S605.5 (ebook) | DDC 631.5/84--dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016050046 Apple Academic Press also publishes its books in a variety of electronic formats. Some content that appears in print may not be available in electronic format. For information about Apple Academic Press products, visit our website at www.appleacademicpress.com and the CRC Press website at www.crcpress.com About the Editor Kim Etingoff Kim Etingoff has a Tufts University terminal master’s degree in Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning. Her recent experience includes research- ing with Initiative for a Competitive Inner City, a report on food resiliency within the city of Boston. She worked in partnership with the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative and Alternatives for Community and Environment to support a community food-planning process based in a Boston neighborhood, which was oriented toward creating a vehicle for community action around urban food issues, providing extensive background research to ground the resi- dent-led planning process. She has worked in the Boston Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics, and has also coordinated and developed programs in urban agriculture and nutrition education. In addition, she has many years of experi- ence researching, writing, and editing educational and academic books on envi- ronmental and food issues. Contents List of Contributors .......................................................................................................................ix Acknowledgments and How to Cite ........................................................................................xiii Introduction ...................................................................................................................................xv Part I: Past and Current Perspectives .........................................................1 1. The Organic Food Philosophy: A Qualitative Exploration of the Practices, Values, and Beliefs of Dutch Organic Consumers Within a Cultural–Historical Frame ..............................................................................3 Hanna Schösler, Joop de Boer, and Jan J. Boersema 2. Organic Farming: The Arrival and Uptake of the Dissident Agriculture Meme in Australia ......................................................................31 John Paull 3. Overview of the Global Spread of Conservation Agriculture ......................53 Theodor Friedrich, Rolf Derpsch, and Amir Kassam 4. The Transition from Green to Evergreen Revolution ...................................69 M. S. Swaminathan and P. C. Kesavan 5. A Review of Long-Term Organic Comparison Trials in the U.S. ..................79 Kathleen Delate, Cynthia Cambardella, Craig Chase, and Robert Turnbull Part II: Preparing for the Future ..............................................................97 6. Keeping the Actors in the Organic System Learning: The Role of Organic Farmers’ Experiments .....................................................................99 Christian R. Vogl, Susanne Kummer, Friedrich Leitgeb, Christoph Schunko, and Magdalena Aigner 7. Supporting Innovation in Organic Agriculture: A European Perspective Using Experience from the SOLID Project ............................115 Susanne Padel, Mette Vaarst, and Konstantinos Zaralis 8. Organic Farming and Sustainable Agriculture in Malaysia: Organic Farmers’ Challenges Towards Adoption .......................................135 Neda Tiraieyari, Azimi Hamzah, and Bahaman Abu Samah viii Contents 9. Are Organic Standards Sufficient to Ensure Sustainable Agriculture? Lessons From New Zealand’s ARGOS and Sustainability Dashboard Projects ..............................................................147 Charles Merfield, Henrik Moller, Jon Manhire, Chris Rosin, Solis Norton, Peter Carey, Lesley Hunt, John Reid, John Fairweather, Jayson Benge, Isabelle Le Quellec, Hugh Campbell, David Lucock, Caroline Saunders, Catriona MacLeod, Andrew Barber, and Alaric McCarthy 10. An Ecologically Sustainable Approach to Agricultural Production Intensification: Global Perspectives and Developments ...........................171 Amir Kassam and Theodor Friedrich Part III: Annotated Bibliographies for Organic and Sustainable Agriculture ..............................................................................................185 11. Tracing the Evolution of Organic/Sustainable Agriculture: A Selected and Annotated Bibliography .......................................................................187 Mary V. Gold and Jane Potter Gates 12. Twenty-First-Century Organic and Sustainable Farming: A Brief Annotated Bibliography ..............................................................................293 Kim Etingoff Keywords .....................................................................................................299 Author Notes ...............................................................................................301 Index ............................................................................................................303 List of Contributors Bahaman Abu Samah Institute for Social Science Studies, University Putra Malaysia, Malaysia Magdalena Aigner Division of Organic Farming, Department of Sustainable Agricultural Systems, University of Natural Resourc- es and Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU), Austria Andrew Barber The AgriBusiness Group, PO Box 4354, Christchurch, New Zealand Jayson Benge The AgriBusiness Group, PO Box 4354, Christchurch, New Zealand Cynthia Cambardella USDA-ARS, National Laboratory for Agriculture & the Environment, Ames, Iowa, USA Hugh Campbell Centre for Sustainability, University of Otago, PO Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand Peter Carey Land Research Services, Lincoln, New Zealand Craig Chase Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture, Ames, Iowa, USA Kathleen Delate Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA R. Derpsch International Consultant for Conservation Agriculture/No-till, C.C. 13223 Shopping del Sol, Asunción, Paraguay Kim Etingoff Massachusetts State Health Department, Boston, Massachusetts, USA John Fairweather The Agribusiness and Economic Research Unit, Lincoln University, New Zealand T. Friedrich Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, 00153 Rome, Italy Jane Potter Gates Alternative Farming Systems Information Center, National Agricultural Library, U.S. Department of Agricul- ture, Washington DC, USA Mary V. Gold Alternative Farming Systems Information Center, National Agricultural Library, U.S. Department of Agricul- ture, Washington DC, USA x List of Contributors Azimi Hamzah Institute for Social Science Studies, University Putra Malaysia, Malaysia Lesley Hunt The Agribusiness and Economic Research Unit, Lincoln University, New Zealand Amir Kassam School of Agriculture, Policy and Development, University of Reading, Reading RG6 6AR, UK Susanne Kummer Division of Organic Farming, Department of Sustainable Agricultural Systems, University of Natural Resourc- es and Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU), Austria Friedrich Leitgeb Division of Organic Farming, Department of Sustainable Agricultural Systems, University of Natural Resourc- es and Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU), Austria Isabelle Le Quellec The AgriBusiness Group, PO Box 4354, Christchurch, New Zealand David Lucock The AgriBusiness Group, PO Box 4354, Christchurch, New Zealand Catriona MacLeod Landcare Research, Lincoln, New Zealand Jon Manhire The AgriBusiness Group, PO Box 4354, Christchurch, New Zealand Alaric McCarthy Centre for Sustainability, University of Otago, PO Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand Charles Merfield BHU Future Farming Centre, PO Box 69113, Lincoln 7646, Canterbury, New Zealand Henrik Moller Centre for Sustainability, University of Otago, PO Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand Solis Norton Centre for Sustainability, University of Otago, PO Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand Susanne Padel The Organic Research Centre, Near Newbury, United Kingdom John Paull School of Land & Food, University of Tasmania, Australia John Reid Ngāi Tahu Research Centre, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 14-800, Christchurch 8140, New Zealand Chris Rosin Honorary Fellow, Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1535 Obser- vatory Dr, Madison, WI 53706, USA Christoph Schunko Division of Organic Farming, Department of Sustainable Agricultural Systems, University of Natural Resourc- es and Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU), Austria
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