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| Muller, Adrian; Olesen, Jørgen E.; Davis, Joan; Dytrtova, Karolina; Gattinger, Andreas; Lampkin, Nicolas; Niggli, Urs. |
| Climate change mitigation is urgent and adaptation to climate change is crucial, particularly in agriculture, where food security is at stake. Agriculture, currently responsible for 20-30% of global greenhouse gas emissions counting direct and indirect agricultural emissions), can however contribute to both climate change mitigation and adaptation. The main mitigation potential lies in the capacity of agricultural soils to sequester CO2 through building organic matter. This potential can be realized by employing sustainable agricultural practices, such as those commonly found within organic farming systems. Examples of these practices are the use of organic fertilizers and crop rotations including legumes leys and cover crops. Mitigation is also achieved... |
| Tipo: Working paper |
Palavras-chave: "Organics" in general; Air and water emissions. |
| Ano: 2012 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/20174/1/EditorialContribution_OrganicAgricultureAndClimateChange_11_4_2012_FiBLTitle.pdf |
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| Schader, Christian; Baumgart, Lukas; Landert, Jan; Muller, Adrian; Ssebunya, Brian; Blockeel, Johan; Weisshaidinger, Rainer; Petrasek, Richard; Mészáros, Dóra; Padel, Susanne; Gerrard, Catherine L; Smith, Laurence; Lindenthal, Thomas; Niggli, Urs; Stolze, Matthias. |
| When trying to optimize the sustainability performance of farms and farming systems, a consideration of trade-offs and synergies between different themes and dimensions is required. The aim of this paper is to perform a systematic analysis of trade-offs and synergies across all dimensions and themes. To achieve this aim we used the Sustainability Monitoring and Assessment Routine (SMART)-Farm Tool which operationalizes the Sustainability Assessment of Food and Agriculture Systems (SAFA) Guidelines by defining science-based indicator sets and assessment procedures. It identifies the degree of goal achievement with respect to the 58 themes defined in the SAFA Guidelines using an impact matrix that defines 327 indicators and 1769 relations between... |
| Tipo: Journal paper |
Palavras-chave: "Organics" in general; Policy environments and social economy; Environmental aspects. |
| Ano: 2016 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/29945/1/schader-etal-2016-sustainability-8-3-274.pdf |
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| Muller, Adrian. |
| Organic Agriculture (OA) as an adaptation strategy (AS) to Climate Change (CC) is a concrete and promising option for adaptation in rural communities. OA has additional potential as a mitigation strategy (MS). This text is a short review note on this topic. Adaptation and mitigation based on OA can build on well-established practice as OA is a sustainable livelihood strategy with decades of experience in several climate zones and under a wide range of specific local conditions. Given the large fraction of rural population living on farming, the potential of this strategy to adapt to the adverse effects of CC and at the same time contribute to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and to carbon sequestration is huge. The scope of the approach ranges... |
| Tipo: Working paper |
Palavras-chave: Policy environments and social economy; Air and water emissions. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/14732/1/mueller%2D2008%2Dorganicfarming%2Dadaptation%2Dclimate%2Dchange.pdf |
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| Muller, Adrian; AUBERT, Claude. |
| We first describe the mitigation potential of various farming practices. Many of the most promising practices are common to organic agriculture, thus suggesting considerable mitigation potential for this farming system. Mitigation in agriculture needs to be assessed beyond the level of single farming practices, though. This is best illustrated with the topics “fertilizers” and “animal husbandry”. Optimization of fertilizer use necessitates optimization of the soil-fertilizer system as a whole and thus the assessment of the links between fertilizer types, crop rotations, tillage and soil carbon sequestration. Optimization of animal husbandry needs a global view, duly accounting for life-cycle emissions of feed production when investigating the effect of... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Air and water emissions. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/20169/2/2_Aubert_RW1_TXT_vf_REVISION_20_10_2011_WithTrackChanges_WithComments.pdf |
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| Muller, Adrian; Jawtusch, Julia; Gattinger, Andreas. |
| Climate change has severe adverse effects on the livelihood of millions of the world’s poorest people. Increasing temperatures, water scarcity and droughts, flooding and storms affect food security. Thus, mitigation actions are needed to pave the way for a sustainable future for all. Currently, agriculture directly contributes about 10-15 percent to global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Adding emissions from deforestation and land use change for animal feed production, this rises to about 30 percent. Scenarios predict a significant rise in agricultural emissions without effective mitigation actions. Given all the efforts undertaken in other sectors, agriculture would then become the single largest emitter within some decades, and without mitigation in... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Air and water emissions. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/19989/1/gatti.pdf |
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| Muller, Adrian. |
| Modern bioenergy is seen as a promising option to curb greenhouse gas emissions. There is, however, a potential competition for land and water between bioenergy and food crops. Another question is whether biomass for energy use can be produced in a sustainable manner given the current conventional agricultural production practices. Other than the land and water competition, this question is often neglected in scenarios to meet a significant part of global energy demand with bioenergy. In the following, I address this question. There are sustainable alternatives, for example organic agriculture, to avoid the negative environmental effects of conventional agriculture. Yet, meeting a significant part of global energy demand with biomass grown sustainably... |
| Tipo: Journal paper |
Palavras-chave: Policy environments and social economy; "Organics" in general. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/14731/1/Muller_OAAndBioenergyOrgEprints.pdf |
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