Global Development of Organic Agriculture: Challenges and Prospects -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- 1 Global trends in agriculture and food systems -- Introduction -- World agriculture - trends and impacts -- Global trends in organic agriculture -- Conclusions -- References -- 2 Globalization and sustainable development: a political ecology strategy to realize ecological justice -- Introduction -- Organic farming and the challenge of sustainability -- Political ecology as one approach to globalization and sustainable development -- Commons as the basis of ecological justice -- Overcoming commodification -- Putting ecological justice into practice: guidelines for policy -- Conclusions -- References -- 3 Organic agriculture and ecological justice: ethics and practice -- Introduction -- Sustainability, globalization and organic agriculture -- The ethics and justice of ecological justice -- Challenges for organic agriculture: commodification, externalities and distant trade -- Putting ecological justice into organic practice -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 4 Ecological economics and organic farming -- Introduction -- Ecological economics as a trans-disciplinary approach -- Political economics and the conception of time and scale -- Farming, production time, nature's time and scale -- Organic farming: a response to ecological damage caused by growth in scale and shortening of production time -- The ecological economic perspective and organic farming -- Frameworks for decision-making -- Conclusions -- References -- 5 Organic farming in a world of free trade -- Introduction -- The agricultural agenda -- Trade and the environment -- Conclusions -- References -- 6 Certified and non-certified organic farming in the developing world -- Introduction -- Certified organic farming in the developing world.

Non-certified organic farming -- Unlearning from the Northern experience: reconceptualizing the benefits of organic farming from a Southern perspective -- Livelihoods -- Questions to guide future studies in organic farming -- Conclusions -- References -- 7 Possibilities for closing the urban-rural nutrient cycles -- Introduction -- Recycling nutrients in society - an ecological economics perspective -- Basic economic, institutional and social aspects of waste handling -- Quantities of nutrients and organic resources - from households to agricultural systems -- Ecological handling systems for organic waste and wastewater -- The cost of the handling system -- Moral and cultural aspects related to recycling urban waste -- Health aspects related to recycling urban waste -- Recycling nutrients from urban waste - global examples -- Conclusions -- References -- 8 Soil fertility depletion in sub-Saharan Africa: what is the role of organic agriculture? -- Introduction -- Causes of soil fertility depletion in SSA -- Approaches to restore soil fertility and improve productivity -- Conclusions -- References -- 9 Sustainable veterinary medical practices in organic farming: a global perspective -- Introduction -- The potential for organic livestock farming -- Disease management in organic livestock production -- The use and risks of antimicrobial drugs -- Vector-borne diseases and organic livestock farming -- Disease control issues associated with land use and land tenure -- Developing organic strategies to enhance animal health and livestock production -- Moving from an 'organic approach' to 'organic animal production' -- Conclusions and recommendations -- References -- 10 The impact of organic farming on food security in a regional and global perspective -- Introduction -- Overview of existing food supply and security projections.

Significant factors determining the effect of OF on food supply and food security -- Modelling consequences of large scale conversion to OF for food security -- Discussion -- Conclusions -- References -- 11 Towards a global research programme for organic food and farming -- Introduction -- Examining the basis for a global organic programme: institutional analysis -- The role of - selected - international organizations in promoting organic farming -- Research as a support tool for developing organic farming and food systems -- Towards a development-oriented research programme for organic agriculture -- Conclusions -- References -- 12 Synthesis: prospects for organic agriculture in a global context -- Introduction -- Three perspectives on the challenges and prospects of organic agriculture -- How may certified organic farming meet the challenges of the increased globalization of organic food chains? -- What solutions do certified and non-certified organic agriculture offer to sustainability problems in the global food system? -- Conclusions -- References -- Index.