Table Of ContentSUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
OF ORGANIC AGRICULTURE
Historical Perspectives
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
OF ORGANIC AGRICULTURE
Historical Perspectives
Edited by
Kim Etingoff
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About the Editor
Kim Etingoff
Kim Etingoff has a Tufts University terminal master’s degree in Urban and
Environmental Policy and Planning. Her recent experience includes research-
ing with Initiative for a Competitive Inner City, a report on food resiliency
within the city of Boston. She worked in partnership with the Dudley Street
Neighborhood Initiative and Alternatives for Community and Environment to
support a community food-planning process based in a Boston neighborhood,
which was oriented toward creating a vehicle for community action around
urban food issues, providing extensive background research to ground the resi-
dent-led planning process. She has worked in the Boston Mayor’s Office of New
Urban Mechanics, and has also coordinated and developed programs in urban
agriculture and nutrition education. In addition, she has many years of experi-
ence researching, writing, and editing educational and academic books on envi-
ronmental and food issues.
Contents
List of Contributors .......................................................................................................................ix
Acknowledgments and How to Cite ........................................................................................xiii
Introduction ...................................................................................................................................xv
Part I: Past and Current Perspectives .........................................................1
1. The Organic Food Philosophy: A Qualitative Exploration of the
Practices, Values, and Beliefs of Dutch Organic Consumers Within a
Cultural–Historical Frame ..............................................................................3
Hanna Schösler, Joop de Boer, and Jan J. Boersema
2. Organic Farming: The Arrival and Uptake of the Dissident
Agriculture Meme in Australia ......................................................................31
John Paull
3. Overview of the Global Spread of Conservation Agriculture ......................53
Theodor Friedrich, Rolf Derpsch, and Amir Kassam
4. The Transition from Green to Evergreen Revolution ...................................69
M. S. Swaminathan and P. C. Kesavan
5. A Review of Long-Term Organic Comparison Trials in the U.S. ..................79
Kathleen Delate, Cynthia Cambardella, Craig Chase, and Robert Turnbull
Part II: Preparing for the Future ..............................................................97
6. Keeping the Actors in the Organic System Learning: The Role of
Organic Farmers’ Experiments .....................................................................99
Christian R. Vogl, Susanne Kummer, Friedrich Leitgeb, Christoph Schunko, and
Magdalena Aigner
7. Supporting Innovation in Organic Agriculture: A European
Perspective Using Experience from the SOLID Project ............................115
Susanne Padel, Mette Vaarst, and Konstantinos Zaralis
8. Organic Farming and Sustainable Agriculture in Malaysia:
Organic Farmers’ Challenges Towards Adoption .......................................135
Neda Tiraieyari, Azimi Hamzah, and Bahaman Abu Samah
viii Contents
9. Are Organic Standards Sufficient to Ensure Sustainable
Agriculture? Lessons From New Zealand’s ARGOS and
Sustainability Dashboard Projects ..............................................................147
Charles Merfield, Henrik Moller, Jon Manhire, Chris Rosin, Solis Norton, Peter Carey,
Lesley Hunt, John Reid, John Fairweather, Jayson Benge, Isabelle Le Quellec, Hugh Campbell,
David Lucock, Caroline Saunders, Catriona MacLeod, Andrew Barber, and Alaric McCarthy
10. An Ecologically Sustainable Approach to Agricultural Production
Intensification: Global Perspectives and Developments ...........................171
Amir Kassam and Theodor Friedrich
Part III: Annotated Bibliographies for Organic and Sustainable
Agriculture ..............................................................................................185
11. Tracing the Evolution of Organic/Sustainable Agriculture: A Selected
and Annotated Bibliography .......................................................................187
Mary V. Gold and Jane Potter Gates
12. Twenty-First-Century Organic and Sustainable Farming: A Brief
Annotated Bibliography ..............................................................................293
Kim Etingoff
Keywords .....................................................................................................299
Author Notes ...............................................................................................301
Index ............................................................................................................303
List of Contributors
Bahaman Abu Samah
Institute for Social Science Studies, University Putra Malaysia, Malaysia
Magdalena Aigner
Division of Organic Farming, Department of Sustainable Agricultural Systems, University of Natural Resourc-
es and Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU), Austria
Andrew Barber
The AgriBusiness Group, PO Box 4354, Christchurch, New Zealand
Jayson Benge
The AgriBusiness Group, PO Box 4354, Christchurch, New Zealand
Cynthia Cambardella
USDA-ARS, National Laboratory for Agriculture & the Environment, Ames, Iowa, USA
Hugh Campbell
Centre for Sustainability, University of Otago, PO Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand
Peter Carey
Land Research Services, Lincoln, New Zealand
Craig Chase
Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture, Ames, Iowa, USA
Kathleen Delate
Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA
R. Derpsch
International Consultant for Conservation Agriculture/No-till,
C.C. 13223 Shopping del Sol, Asunción, Paraguay
Kim Etingoff
Massachusetts State Health Department, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
John Fairweather
The Agribusiness and Economic Research Unit, Lincoln University, New Zealand
T. Friedrich
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations,
Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, 00153 Rome, Italy
Jane Potter Gates
Alternative Farming Systems Information Center, National Agricultural Library, U.S. Department of Agricul-
ture, Washington DC, USA
Mary V. Gold
Alternative Farming Systems Information Center, National Agricultural Library, U.S. Department of Agricul-
ture, Washington DC, USA
x List of Contributors
Azimi Hamzah
Institute for Social Science Studies, University Putra Malaysia, Malaysia
Lesley Hunt
The Agribusiness and Economic Research Unit, Lincoln University, New Zealand
Amir Kassam
School of Agriculture, Policy and Development, University of Reading, Reading RG6 6AR, UK
Susanne Kummer
Division of Organic Farming, Department of Sustainable Agricultural Systems, University of Natural Resourc-
es and Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU), Austria
Friedrich Leitgeb
Division of Organic Farming, Department of Sustainable Agricultural Systems, University of Natural Resourc-
es and Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU), Austria
Isabelle Le Quellec
The AgriBusiness Group, PO Box 4354, Christchurch, New Zealand
David Lucock
The AgriBusiness Group, PO Box 4354, Christchurch, New Zealand
Catriona MacLeod
Landcare Research, Lincoln, New Zealand
Jon Manhire
The AgriBusiness Group, PO Box 4354, Christchurch, New Zealand
Alaric McCarthy
Centre for Sustainability, University of Otago, PO Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand
Charles Merfield
BHU Future Farming Centre, PO Box 69113, Lincoln 7646, Canterbury, New Zealand
Henrik Moller
Centre for Sustainability, University of Otago, PO Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand
Solis Norton
Centre for Sustainability, University of Otago, PO Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand
Susanne Padel
The Organic Research Centre, Near Newbury, United Kingdom
John Paull
School of Land & Food, University of Tasmania, Australia
John Reid
Ngāi Tahu Research Centre, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 14-800, Christchurch 8140, New Zealand
Chris Rosin
Honorary Fellow, Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1535 Obser-
vatory Dr, Madison, WI 53706, USA
Christoph Schunko
Division of Organic Farming, Department of Sustainable Agricultural Systems, University of Natural Resourc-
es and Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU), Austria
