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| Shepherd, Mark; Pearce, Bruce; Cormack, Bill; Philipps, Lois; Cuttle, Steve; Bhogal, Anne; Costigan, Peter; Unwin, Roger. |
| This project covered two separate activities, but both were examples of technology transfer, relating to organic farming: 1. Developing a science-based report, which covered an assessment of the environmental impacts of organic farming. Defra’s Action Plan to Develop Organic Food and Farming included as Annexe 3 an assessment of the environmental impacts of organic farming. This paper was prepared by a Subgroup of the Action Plan for Organic Farming. Its purpose was to summarise the Subgroup’s views of the likely comparative effects of organic and conventional farming on the environment. However, to be robust and defensible, the assessment needs to be supported by scientific data. Although the report was based on such an assessment, the scientific... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Environmental aspects; Soil; Technology transfer. |
| Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/6784/1/OF0405_2179_FRP.pdf |
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| Cormack, Bill. |
| This work contributes to DEFRA’s policy objective of promoting a sustainable, competitive and safe food supply chain which meets consumers’ requirements. It helps to identify sound methods of organic farming, limiting factors and ways of overcoming them. To expand in the arable east of England, where the knowledge, infrastructure and capital for livestock are not available, viable stockless systems will be necessary. Projects OF0145 showed that in the first crop sequence after conversion, a stockless arable rotation was consistently more profitable that a comparable conventional rotation on the fertile silty clay loam soil at ADAS Terrington. However, sustainability in terms of nutrient supply, perennial weed control, soil-borne pests, and other pests and... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Farm nutrient management; Crop husbandry; Farm economics. |
| Ano: 2002 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/6693/1/Orgprint6693.pdf |
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