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Towards Sustainability
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Preface
Chapter 1 Organic Agriculture, Sustainability and Consumer
Preferences
by Terrence Thomas and Cihat Gunden
Chapter 2 Analysis of Production and Consumption of Organic
Products in South Africa
by Maggie Kisaka-Lwayo and Ajuruchukwu Obi
Chapter 3 Organic agricultural practices among small holder
farmers in South Western Nigeria
by Sijuwade Ad ebayo and Idowu O Oladele
Chapter 4 Current Status of Advisory and Extension Services
for Organic Agriculture in Europe and Turkey
by Orhan ÿzÿatalbas
Chapter 5 Lithuanian Organic Agriculture in the Context of
European Union
by Vytautas Pilipavicius and Alvydas G rigaliunas
Chapter 6 Mixtures of Legumes with Cereals as a Source of
Feed for Animals
by Mariola Staniak, Jerzy Ksiezak and
Jolanta Bojar szczuk
Chapter 7 Tomato Fruit Quality from Organic and Conventional
Production
by Ilic S. Zoran, Kapoulas Nikolaos and ÿunic Ljubomir
Chapter 8 Application of Active EM-Calcium in Green Agricultural
Production — Case Study in To mato and Flue-cured
Tobacco Production
by Xiaohou Shao, Tingting Chang, Maomao Hou, Yalu Shao
and Jingnan Chen
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Chapter 9 The Suitability of Different Winter and Spring Wheat
Varieties for Cultivation in Organic Farming
by Beata Feledyn-Szewczyk, Jan Ku s, Krzysztof Jonczyk
and Jaroslaw Stalenga
Chapter 10 Organic Production of Cash Cereals and Pseudocereals
by Franc Bavec
Chapter 11 Environmental Aspects Of Organic Farming
by Jan Moudryÿ jr. and Jan Moudryÿ
Preface
Organic agriculture combines tradition, innovation and science
to benefit the shared environment and promotes fair relationships
and a good quality of life.
This book is a compilation of 11 chapters focused on development
of organic agriculture, the role of sustainability in ecosystem
and social community, analysis of environmental impacts of the
organic farming system and its comparison with the conventional one,
crop growing and weed control technologies, organic production,
effective microorganisms technology. Continuously, a wide range
of research experiments focus on organic agriculture technologies,
quality of production, environmental protection and non-chemical,
ecologically acceptable alternative solutions.
In the book Organic Agriculture Towards Sustainability, contributing
researchers cover multiple topics respecting modern, precious organic
agriculture research.
Chapter 1
Organic Agriculture, Sustainability and Consumer
Preferences
Terrence Thomas and Cihat Gunden
Additional information is available at the end of the chapter
http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/58428
1. Introduction1
Scholars acknowledge that early man provided food for himself and his family via gathering
what was available to him in his surroundings; he relied on nature for his sustenance. As hunter
gatherers, man lacked the capacity to manipulate the environment to produce food beyond
the amount that was available naturally. Consequently, there was minimal or no environmen‐
tal impact, the human population remained small and in balance with nature; hunter gatherers’
population could not expand beyond the available sources of food [1-3]. Over time, however,
as hunter gatherers learn to cope with their environment and became more adept at gathering
food, the population increased, leading to the next stage in the evolution of the food production
system—the Neolithic revolution or the development of agriculture. The development of
agriculture led to sedentary communities, increase in population size and the specialization
of labor, all of which facilitated technological development, i.e., improved tools, dwellings and
means for transporting water and materials. In sum, man learned and applied techniques for
domesticating animals and plants, or put another way, agriculture was invented. Yet, at this
early stage in the practice of agriculture, man’s interaction with his sustenance base could be
described as “give and take”; a relationship in which man essentially learned from his
experience living in the environment, a sort of ‘symbiotic” relationship with his sustenance
base that resulted in little or no adverse environmental impact. Even when there was adverse
impact, the population was small and technology environmentally benign, which allowed the
sustenance base to recover. The invention of agriculture laid the foundation for the develop‐
ment of civilization, increase in knowledge and man’s capability to manipulate the environ‐
ment. It was not until the birth of modern science and its application to the development of
1 This section of the chapter is drawn extensively on the work of [4-5].
