Food production vs. biodiversity: comparing organic and conventional agriculture

Quality of Organic vs . Conventional Food and Effects on Health

Organic agriculture cannot replace conventional agriculture

In this paper, we consider the effect of increasing the area of agricultural land under organic practises. We assumed that organic agriculture does not have effective means of pathogen control. We model pathogen dispersal with a diffusive logistic equation in which the growth/death rate is spatially heterogeneous. We find that if the ratio of the organic plots to conventional plots is below a c...

Organic Agriculture and Food Utilization Table of Contents Issues Paper: Organic Agriculture and Food

Human health implications of organic food and organic agriculture Human health implications of organic food and organic agriculture

Organic Agriculture: Food for Future Green Consumers in Iran

The aim of this paper was investigating the effects of organic knowledge, perceived consequences, subjective norms,price, and green trust, perceived consumer effectiveness, availability, relative advantage, and organic purchase intention on organic purchase behavior among Iranian consumers as the consumers in a developing country.The survey questionnaire was administered to the customers of lar...