Abstract Plants memorize events associated with environmental fluctuations. The integration of signals into molecular memory allows plants to cope future stressors more efficiently—a phenomenon that is known as ‘priming’. Primed are resilient stresses than non-primed plants, they capable triggering robust and faster defence responses. Interestingly, exposure various forms mechanical stimuli (e....

The LISA (Low-Input Sustainable Agriculture) program was launched to reduce the use of off-farm inputs with the greatest potential to harm the environment or the health of farmers and consumers. This is one of the operational definitions of sustainable agriculture. However, LISA has not gained appreciable support from the agricultural sector, since the nature of LISA decreases profits. On the o...

Introduction.........................................................................................................76 Scope and purpose of the paper.......................................................................79 Sustainability, globalisation and organic agriculture ..........................................79 Dimensions of sustainability ................................................

The growing public concern about groundwater contamination, pesticide residues, soil erosion, and wildlife habitat runs parallel to “an emerging interest by many farmers for a more costeffective and environmentally benign agriculture” (USDA, 1990). But only a small number of farmers are using alternative farming systems (Board of Agriculture, 1989). The cause of the limited adoption of sustaina...

Sustainable agriculture has lately made significant inroads into US agricultural policy discourse. An examination of the “life cycle” of the Fund for Rural America, a component of the 1996 farm bill, provides an example of the complex and contested ways in which the goals of sustainable agriculture are advocated, negotiated, and implemented at the level of national policy, in the context of the...