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| Müller, Adrian. |
| Organic agriculture, as an adaptation strategy to climate change and variability, is a concrete and promising option for rural communities and has additional potential as a mitigation strategy. This article is a short review of this topic. Adaptation and mitigation based on organic agriculture can build on wellestablished practice because organic agriculture is a sustainable livelihood strategy with decades of use in several climate zones and under a wide range of specific local conditions. The financial requirements of organic agriculture as an adaptation or mitigation strategy are low. Further research is needed on yields in organic agriculture and its mitigation and sequestration potential. Other critical points are information provision and... |
| Tipo: Working paper |
Palavras-chave: Policy environments and social economy; Air and water emissions. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/16506/1/mueller-2009-Benefits_of_Organic_Agriculture-EfD09.pdf |
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| Stolze, Matthias; Weisshaidinger, Rainer; Bartel, Andreas; Schwank, Othmar; Müller, Adrian; Biedermann, Roger. |
| Für die sogenannten «Grasländer» Schweiz und Österreich stellt sich die Frage, welche Lösungen für die Milch- und Rindfleischproduktion zu einer ökologisch nachhaltigen Landnutzung beitragen können. Vor diesem Hintergrund unterziehen die Autoren die Landwirtschaft in diesen beiden Alpenländern einer umfassenden Bestandsaufnahme hinsichtlich ihrer agrarpolitischen Entwicklung und deren Folgen für die Umwelt. Dabei stellen sie den Faktor Stickstoff in das Zentrum der Analyse, die in einer Zusammenarbeit zwischen FiBL Österreich, Umweltbundesamt GmbH Wien, FiBL Schweiz, und Schwank Earthpartner erfolgte. Die Autoren entwickeln aus verschiedenen Perspektiven Ansätze und Leitlinien, die zentral sind, um mittelfristig eine ökologisch nachhaltige Landwirtschaft... |
| Tipo: Book |
Palavras-chave: Food security; Food quality and human health Recycling; Balancing and resource management Processing; Packaging and transportation Policy environments and social economy Environmental aspects. |
| Ano: 2019 |
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| Bautze, Lin; Nicolay, Gian L.; Meier, Matthias; Gattinger, Andreas; Müller, Adrian. |
| Climate change increases the number of risks for agricultural production in arid and semiarid regions, especially in Western Africa. Smallholder farmers are particularly vulnerable to climate change risks. These risks affect their socioeconomic situation, as well as the local food sector value chain in general. Therefore, their food security is threatened if smallholder farming structures do not adapt to them. Thus, effective climate change adaptation measures for smallholders are essential and should be implemented without delay. However, success hinges on the acceptance of the promoted measures among various stakeholders. Thus, their acceptance needs to be assessed before promoting. The project “The potential of sustainable land-use systems to promote... |
| Tipo: Book chapter |
Palavras-chave: Air and water emissions; Policy environments and social economy; Africa. |
| Ano: 2018 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/34706/1/Bautze-etal-2018_ReferenceWorkEntry_ClimateChangeAdaptationThrough-Chapter-p1-15.pdf |
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| García-Palacios, Pablo; Gattinger, Andreas; Bracht-Jørgensen, Helene; Brussaard, Lijbert; Carvalho, Filipe; Castro, Helena; Clément, Jean-Christophe; De Deyn, Gerlinde; D’Hertefeldt, Tina; Foulquier, Arnaud; Hedlund, Katarina; Lavorel, Sandra; Legay, Nicolas; Lori, Martina; Mäder, Paul; Martínez-García, Laura B.; Martins da Silva, Pedro; Müller, Adrian; Nascimento, Eduardo; Reis, Filipa; Symanczik, Sarah; Paulo Sousa, José; Milla, Rubén. |
| 1. Organic farming (OF) enhances top soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks in croplands compared with conventional farming (CF), which can contribute to sequester C. As farming system differences in the amount of C inputs to soil (e.g. fertilization and crop residues) are not enough to explain such increase, shifts in crop residue traits important for soil C losses such as litter decomposition may also play a role. 2. To assess whether crop residue (leaf and root) traits determined SOC sequestration responses to OF, we coupled a global meta-analysis with field measurements across a European-wide network of sites. In the meta-analysis, we related crop species averages of leaf N, leaf-dry matter content, fine-root C and N, with SOC stocks and sequestration... |
| Tipo: Journal paper |
Palavras-chave: "Organics" in general; Soil quality. |
| Ano: 2018 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/32747/1/Garcia-Palacios-etal-2018-JApplEcol-online-p1-10.pdf |
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| Mohlin, Kristina; Camuzeaux, Jonathan; Müller, Adrian; Schneider, Marius; Wagner, Gernot. |
| The decline in carbon dioxide emissions in the United States between 2007 and 2013 is actually more complex than previously thought. During that period, carbon dioxide emissions from United States energy use decreased sharply and unexpectedly, after rising for nearly two decades. At the end of the six-year period, U.S. annual carbon dioxide emissions had fallen by 11 percent– a drop the nation hadn’t experienced since the 1979 oil crisis. Experts have typically attributed this decline to two factors: the drop in energy demand during the recession that began in 2007 and the surge in inexpensive natural gas that displaced coal in the energy mix during the same time. However, they missed another critical influence that hastened the decline in emissions just... |
| Tipo: Web product |
Palavras-chave: Environmental aspects. |
| Ano: 2018 |
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| Van Zanten, Hannah H.E.; Herrero, Mario; Van Hal, Ollie; Röös, Elin; Müller, Adrian; Garnett, Tara; Gerber, Pierre J.; Schader, Christian; de Boer, Imke J.M.. |
| The need for more sustainable production and consumption of animal source food (ASF) is central to the achievement of the sustainable development goals: within this context, wise use of land is a core challenge and concern. A key question in feeding the future world is: how much ASF should we eat? We demonstrate that livestock raised under the circular economy concept could provide a significant, nonnegligible part (9–23 g/per capita) of our daily protein needs (~50–60 g/per capita). This livestock then would not consume human‐edible biomass, such as grains, but mainly convert leftovers from arable land and grass resources into valuable food, implying that production of livestock feed is largely decoupled from arable land. The availability of these biomass... |
| Tipo: Journal paper |
Palavras-chave: Animal husbandry; Air and water emissions. |
| Ano: 2018 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/34489/1/VanZanten-etal-2018-GlobalChangeBiology-Vol24-Issue9-p4185-4194.pdf |
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| Müller, Adrian; Aguilera, Eduardo; Skinner, Colin; Gattinger, Andreas. |
| A recent study by McGee (Agriculture and Human Values, 32, 255–263, 2015) from the University of Oregon has led to discussions in international media and on the web. This study addresses an interesting question and applies advanced statistics for its analysis. However, we identify several methodological flaws that invalidate the results. First, McGee tests a hypothesis that does not correspond to his main question and which does not allow McGee to derive the conclusions that are drawn in his paper and reported in the media coverage. Second, the data used are not adequate for the analysis because: i) the dependent variable does not reflect the greenhouse gas emissions characteristics of organic agriculture (e.g. different emission factors in organic and... |
| Tipo: Journal paper |
Palavras-chave: Crop husbandry; Air and water emissions; Policy environments and social economy. |
| Ano: 2016 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/30373/1/Muller-etal-AgHumVal-2016.pdf |
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| Grovermann, Christian; Wossen, Tesfamicheal; Müller, Adrian; Nichterlein, Karin. |
| Agricultural innovation is an essential component in the transition to more sustainable and resilient farming systems across the world. Innovations generally emerge from collective intelligence and action, but innovation systems are often poorly understood. This study explores the properties of innovation systems and their contribution to increased eco-efficiency in agriculture. Using aggregate data and econometric methods, the eco-efficiency of 79 countries was computed and a range of factors relating to research, extension, business and policy was examined. Despite data limitations, the analysis produced some interesting insights. For instance public research spending has a positive significant effect for emerging economies, while no statistically... |
| Tipo: Journal paper |
Palavras-chave: Recycling; Balancing and resource management Research methodology and philosophy. |
| Ano: 2019 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/35589/1/Grovermann-etal-2019-PloSone-Vol14-Issue4-pe0214115.pdf |
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| Gattinger, Andreas; Müller, Adrian; Haeni, Matthias; Skinner, Collin; Fliessbach, Andreas; Buchmann, Nina; Mäder, Paul; Stolze, Matthias; Smith, Pete; El-Hage Scialabba, Nadia; Niggli, Urs. |
| It has been suggested that conversion to organic farming contributes to soil carbon sequestration, but until now a comprehensive quantitative assessment has been lacking. Therefore, datasets from 74 studies from pairwise comparisons of organic vs. nonorganic farming systems were subjected to metaanalysis to identify differences in soil organic carbon (SOC). We found significant differences and higher values for organically farmed soils of 0.18±0.06% points (mean ± 95% confidence interval) for SOC concentrations, 3.50 ± 1.08 Mg C ha−1 for stocks, and 0.45 ± 0.21 Mg C ha−1 y−1 for sequestration rates compared with nonorganic management. Metaregression did not deliver clear results on drivers, but differences in external C inputs and crop rotations seemed... |
| Tipo: Journal paper |
Palavras-chave: Soil; Environmental aspects. |
| Ano: 2012 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/21735/1/Gattinger-etal-2012-PNAS-vol109-44.pdf |
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