Abstract The role of the organic farming system is to produce cleaner food, more suitable for human metabolism, in full correlation with conservation and development environment. One main purposes fresh authentic agri-food products that respect natural environmental factors. We can also talk about another alternative which not only consciousness develops but resilience all levels biosphere. Thi...

S the origin of agriculture, the human population and human consumption of resources have increased steadily throughout the world. As a consequence, forests and other natural areas have been transformed into agriculture, pastureland, and cities. Land-use and land-cover change (LUCC) represents one of the most important components of global environmental change. Widespread effects of LUCC includ...

The article is aimed at studying the ecological indicators of sustainable development agriculture on basis systematization statistical data in dynamics and determination characteristic signs threat caused by activities economic entities. It determined that, according to conception triple criterion J. Elkington, component development, a par with social, comprised for national as defined Sustaina...

Survey data from a USDA-funded multi-state longitudinal project revealed a paradox where rural low-income families from states considered prosperous were persistently more food insecure than similar families from less prosperous states. An examination of quantitative and qualitative data found that families in the food insecure states were more likely to experience greater material hardship and...

introduction   capability evaluation can be considered as a basic strategy for land use becausethe development synchronous with the naturecan be achieved by using identifying and assessing of the ecological characteristics of the area. agricultural land suitability classification based on indigenous knowledge is vital to land-use planning (ecological capacity evaluation). execution of developme...

The greatest challenge for agriculture is to reduce the trade-offs between productivity and long-term sustainability. Therefore, it is interesting to analyse organic agriculture which is a given set of farm practices that emphasise ecological sustainability. Organic agriculture can be characterised as being less driven by off-farm inputs and being better embedded in ecosystem functions. The lit...