społeczeństwo: Biodynamic agriculture

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Biodynamic agriculture is a form of alternative agriculture based on pseudoscientific and esoteric concepts initially developed in 1924 by Rudolf Steiner (1861–1925). It was the first of the organic farming movements. It treats soil fertility, plant growth, and livestock care as ecologically interrelated tasks, emphasising spiritual and mystical perspectives. Biodynamics has much in common with other organic approaches – it emphasizes the use of manures and composts and excludes the use of synthetic (artificial) fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides on soil and plants. Methods unique to the biodynamic approach include its treatment of animals, crops, and soil as a single system, an emphasi…

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New Zealanders' Sentiments and Attitudes Towards a "Beyond Organic" Food Production System.. A novel consumer research methodology, text highlighting, was used to explore what New Zealand consumers like and dislike about a 20-sentence text describing a "beyond organic" food production system, based on biodynamic practices. The results were compared with those previously collected and published for Australian, Singaporean, British and German consumers. The method allows consumer sentiments (liking minus disliking) to be calculated for individual sentences, and New Zealanders' sentiments varied from +46.9 to -19.0. New Zealanders responded positively to sentences about "balanced ways of farmi…

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Sustainable agriculture is farming in a way that reduces environmental harm, aids and expands natural resources and ensures that non-renewable resources are harnessed for productive purposes. It can be based on an understanding of ecosystem services. There are many methods to increase the sustainability of agriculture. When developing agriculture within the sustainable food systems, it is important to develop flexible business processes and farming practices. Agriculture has an enormous environmental footprint, playing a significant role in causing climate change (food systems are responsible for one third of the anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions), water scarcity, water pollution, land…

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Organic farming, also known as organic agriculture or ecological farming, or biological farming, is an agricultural system that emphasizes the use of naturally occurring, non-synthetic inputs, such as compost manure, green manure, and bone meal and places emphasis on techniques such as crop rotation, companion planting, and mixed cropping. Biological pest control methods, such as the fostering of insect predators, are also encouraged. Organic agriculture can be defined as "an integrated farming system that strives for sustainability, the enhancement of soil fertility and biological diversity while, with rare exceptions, prohibiting synthetic pesticides, antibiotics, synthetic fertilizers, g…

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Principles of environmentally sustainable agriculture for building resilient and resource-efficient food systems.. As the demand for greater quantities of higher-quality food grows with population expansion, climate change, urbanization, and unsustainable agricultural practices accelerate the loss of arable land, ultimately threatening agricultural sustainability. Population growth necessitates a transition to nutritious, safe, and healthy food production systems that ensure higher yields, less reduced waste, improved social outcomes, and the integration of economic, social, and environmental sustainability principles. Urgent global challenges such as resource depletion, biodiversity loss,…

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From Genome to Phenome: Genotype × Environment Interactions in Organic and Conventional Dairy Systems and the Emergence of Genomically Optimized Organic Dairy (GOOD).. Organic dairy farming has expanded rapidly over the past three decades, driven by regulatory reforms, consumer demand, and growing recognition of its environmental, animal welfare, and potential human health benefits. Despite this growth, evidence comparing organic and conventional dairy systems remains fragmented across genetics, phenomics, animal health, and human health outcomes. This review synthesizes current knowledge through the lens of genotype × environment interactions, integrating evidence from four complementary d…

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Drought increases root and rhizodeposition carbon inputs into soils.. Aims Increasing droughts affect crop yield and health. Plants can respond to drought by adapting their root biomass, root morphology, and quality and quantity of rhizodeposition to improve water and nutrient uptake. Besides droughts, agricultural management influences roots and rhizodeposition; however, it is not well studied how agricultural management can affect the response of roots and rhizodeposition to drought. Methods A semi-continuous 13 CO 2 isotope labelling experiment was performed in a long-term field experiment comparing biodynamic, mixed conventional, and mineral conventional cropping systems. Rainout shelte…

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From soil to health: advancing regenerative agriculture for improved food quality and nutrition security.. Industrial agriculture practices including herbicide-pesticide usage, synthetic fertilizer application, large-scale monocropping, and tillage contribute to increasing concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO 2 ), exacerbating the effects of global climate change, damaging vital water resources via nutrient pollution and soil erosion, and significantly reducing biodiversity across ecosystems. Observed decadal declines in diet quality driven by industrial farming practices have led to a global health epidemic marked by increased micronutrient deficiency and malnutrition. Addition…

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Biodynamic soil fertility management in fruit crops

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Agriculture began independently in different parts of the globe, and included a diverse range of taxa. At least eleven separate regions of the Old and New World were involved as independent centers of origin. The development of agriculture about 12,000 years ago changed the way humans lived. They switched from nomadic hunter-gatherer lifestyles to permanent settlements and farming. Wild grains were collected and eaten from at least 104,000 years ago. However, domestication did not occur until much later. The earliest evidence of small-scale cultivation of edible grasses is from around 21,000 BC with the Ohalo II people on the shores of the Sea of Galilee. By around 9500 BC, the eight Neolit…