Organic agriculture (OA) is practiced on 1% of the global agricultural land area and its importance continues to grow. Specifically, OA is perceived by many as having less Advances inAgronomy, ISSN 0065-2113 © 2016 Elsevier Inc. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/bs.agron.2016.05.003 All rights reserved. 1 ARTICLE IN PRESS

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...

The United States Department of Agriculture/Agricultural Research Service is the agency responsible for the federal effort in agricultural research. A recent survey of the ~2340 USDA/ARS scientists revealed that approximately 8% of the scientists were interested in working on research topics for organic agriculture. At the time of the survey only about 4% had worked in or were working on projec...

The study examines the kind of actors and resources that empower small-scale farmers to promote sustainable agriculture. It also analyzes the reasons given by farmers who changed their farming methods. In 2004, the Department of Agriculture launched a project for the Promoting Organic Farming and Marketing in Lao PDR (PROFIL). PROFIL tried to develop market opportunities for Lao’s organic produ...

Nowadays, thousands tons of chemicals material are used to increase agricultural production that provides a risky situation for the communities. Recently, biological or organic agriculture is considered to get rid of such problems. But this style of agriculture is facing with many difficulties and challenges. This study was performed in three phases by using Delphi method. In this regard, the s...

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