Die Broschüre gibt grundlegende Hinweise zum Ablauf einer Umstellung auf die ökologische Wirtschaftsweise. Sie beschreibt die gesetzlichen Rahmenbedingungen, die Spezifika bei Pflanzenbau und Tierhaltung, die Bedeutung der Absatzwege und die finanzielle Förderung im Freistaat Sachsen. Adressen zu Kontrollstellen, Beratung und Verbänden sowie eine Zusammenstellung wichtiger Fachliteratur sind für die frühe Informations- und Planungsphase nützlich.

A phenomenological study was undertaken to explore the lived experience of community based farmers using ecological farming practices. These farmers support and are supported by their local communities through marketing their products directly to eaters and use farming practices that mimic and seek to enhance the vitality of natural systems and cycles on their farms. Farmers’ experiences are characterised by hard work for little pay, engaging the fullness of human capacity, living in harmony, spirituality, and a socio-political awareness of food and farms in society. Farmers’ experiences contribute to the development of concepts of doing, being, belonging and becoming, and have implications for concepts of occupational justice and occupational ecology. Further study of other forms of occupation that promote engagement in dialogue with the natural world is encouraged in order to develop these concepts and help to integrate theories of justice, ecology, and occupation.

Printed information access, preferences and use by small-scale farmers in KwaZulu-Natal, who are experimenting with or converting to organic farming, were investigated to establish the need for information on organic production, certification, and marketing. Forty-six resource-poor farmers from four groups at Umbumbulu, Tugela Ferry, KwaMashu and Muden participated in semi-structured group interviews. Guiding questions, information tabulation, ranking and sorting, and voting were used to gather data. Five printed agricultural information materials were evaluated. The findings indicated that the participants trusted and relied on intermediaries for access to innovative, research-based information, and preferred interpersonal communication over other information channels. Printed materials were valued for their permanence, while participants preferred materials in isiZulu as 75% of participants were able to read and write isiZulu or were able to ask family members to read materials in isiZulu. At least one functionally literate farmer was a member of each of the participating farmer groups. Appropriate printed information on organic production, certification and marketing had not reached the participants. Characteristics of printed information materials preferred by participating farmers included: large typeface, photographs, drawings, step-by-step instructions, stories about people and events, context-specific content, the use of plain language in English or preferably isiZulu. / Thesis (M.Agric.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2004.

The big importance of insects and their ecological services to the human kind is a big issue in today’s society. Many people question the use of pesticides and are blaming chemicals and conventional farming for the loss of beneficial insects. With this in mind people instead turn to the organic farming. The aim of this study was to try and find out if organic farming benefits the diversity of insects. The study was performed on a farm in South Africa which practice both conventional and organic farming and also has a natural Fynbos field on its property. The insect diversity was compared in these three different fields. The collecting of insects was performed by using two different methods, using pan traps and pitfall traps. This study shows that there is a significant difference in the amount of species among the different fields, with a significant higher insect diversity in the Fynbos compared to the conventional farming area, and the diversity of insects in the organic farming is somewhere between the natural Fynbos and the conventional farming. In conclusion this study stress that we need more understanding about what critical factors in the organic farming that supports higher diversity and the importance of surrounding farms that also may play a role to increase the biological diversity to cultivated fields.

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Die Broschüre gibt grundlegende Hinweise zum Ablauf einer Umstellung auf die ökologische Wirtschaftsweise. Sie beschreibt die gesetzlichen Rahmenbedingungen, die Spezifika bei Pflanzenbau und Tierhaltung, die Bedeutung der Absatzwege und die finanzielle Förderung im Freistaat Sachsen. Adressen zu Kontrollstellen, Beratung und Verbänden sowie eine Zusammenstellung wichtiger Fachliteratur sind für die frühe Informations- und Planungsphase nützlich.

The aim of the thesis is to investigate the barriers to, and the driver of, the adoption of organic agriculture, especially from the point of view of agricultural professionals (scientists, researchers, academics and extension officers). The thesis also summarises the economics of organic agriculture, and provides a unique case study on organic viticulture in Foster's Clare Valley Estare from the 1980s to mid 2000. / PhD Doctorate

Thesis (M.App.Sc.) -- University of Adelaide, School of Earth and Environmental Science, Discipline of Soil and Land Systems, 2004. / "March, 2004" Bibliography: p. 112-136.

Thesis (Ph.D.) -- McGill University. / Written for the Dept. of Sociology. Typewritten MS.

Thesis (M.C.M.)--Lincoln University, 2009. / Also available via the World Wide Web.