Semi-organic Rice Farming as a Transition Period to Organic Rice Farming

Rice farming in Bali: organic production and marketing challenges.

All is not well with agriculture in Southeast Asia. The productivity gains of the Green Revolution have slowed and even reversed and environmental problems and shortages of water and land are evident. At the same time changing world markets are shifting the dynamics of national agricultural economies. But from the point of view of farmers themselves, it is their season-to-season economic surviv...

Contract Farming and Poverty Reduction: the Case of Organic Rice Contract Farming in Thailand

Synergy and Transition of Recovery Efficiency of Nitrogen Fertilizer in Various Rice Genotypes under Organic Farming

Despite the growing demand for organic products, research on organic farming (OF) such as genotype screening, fertilizer application and nutrition uptake remains limited. This study focused on comparisons of the apparent recovery efficiency of nitrogen fertilizer (REN) in rice grown under OF and conventional farming (CF). Thirty-two representative conventional Japonica rice varieties were field...

Green Investment Funds: Organic Farming

Principles of Organic Farming Prilmes.pmd

Acknowledgement We at the NAVDANYA wish to acknowledge the farmers contributions who for centuries have grown and conserved diversity in their fields. In particular, we want to thank all those farmers who, through their participation in our conservation efforts are in effect co-authors of this work and are changing India's farm destiny to one of hope and health. Publication of this volume has b...