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| Halberg, Niels; Verschuur, Gerwin; Goodlass, Gillian. |
| Green accounts or Input-Output Accounting systems (IOA) have been developed in countries with intensive agricultural production to facilitate voluntary improvements in farm environmental performance. There is a need for an overview of indicators used and a review of results and experiences reported. Ten IOA systems covering the topics of the farm's use of nutrients, pesticides and energy were selected from a survey of 55 systems and compared in this paper. The approaches and indicators used vary from systems based on Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) to accounts based systems that use physical input-output units. Many IOA systems use farm gate nutrient balances, pesticide use per ha and energy use per kg product. These indicators are easy to calculate but... |
| Tipo: Journal paper |
Palavras-chave: Farming Systems. |
| Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/2465/1/2465.pdf |
