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| Halberg, Niels. |
| The more than ten year old focus on the negative impact from intensive farming on the environment in Denmark challenges the agricultural sector as a whole and the individual farms in particular. Public pressure to strengthen the regulation of the farmers’ use of inputs threatens to raise costs and bind the individual farmer by detailed rules for crop rotation, fertiliser strategy etc. At the same time, there is evidence that this type of general regulation is not sufficient to reduce the environmental impact compared with overall goals (for instance, the goal of reducing nitrate leaching and pesticide use by 50% before 1997 has failed). This has lead to increased pressure to use economic regulation (nitrogen taxes etc.) which the farmers’ unions have... |
| Tipo: Conference paper, poster, etc. |
Palavras-chave: Education; Extension and communication Farming Systems Farm nutrient management. |
| Ano: 1998 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/13121/1/13121.pdf |
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| Noe, Egon; Halberg, Niels. |
| As a response to the increasing public focus on the externalities of intensive farming and the resulting pres-sure to strengthen public regulation for farming practices, Danish farmers, within their own farming organi-sations, have begun to formulate their own goals and intentions for the development of environmentally friendly farming. Moreover, the number of organic farms is increasing all over Europe and the EU is pres-ently trying to harmonise the organic rules. However, this coupling of a still more centralised formulation of organic rules and a broader group of farmers not involved in the original value debates in the organic movement might threaten to reduce the potential environmental benefits of conversion to organic farming. For these reasons,... |
| Tipo: Report chapter |
Palavras-chave: Education; Extension and communication Farming Systems Farm nutrient management. |
| Ano: 2002 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/13119/1/13119.pdf |
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