1. Biological pest control –
Overview –
Classical biological control –
Biological control with microorganisms –
Physical and mechanical control –
2. A total system approach to sustainable pest management –
Premise of a revised approach –
Attempts for change: no real change –
New direction –
3. Principles of organic agriculture –
The principles –
Organic certification –
Organic Foods Production Act of 1990 –
Organic farming methods –
Crop diversity –
Plant nutrition –
Advance sowing –
Sowing seeds indoors –
4. Motivations for organic agriculture –
Food safety –
Organic food –
Natural foods –
Organic beans –
Organic clothing –
5. Organic farming and biodiversity –
Benefits to biodiversity –
Highly-impacted animal species –
Farmers' benefits from increased biodiversity –
Organic wine –
6. Improvements in environmental quality from precision farming –
A growing hunger –
The need for meat –
Food crop production –
Bio-energy and food crops –
carbon footprint and other environmental aims –
Green Revolution –
Agricultural production and food security –
Climate change –
Other uses and related phenomena –
Theoretical causes –
Activism –
Gender and global food security policy –
Risks to food security –
7. The spread of conservation agriculture –
The principles of conservation agriculture –
A typology of terms –
Conservation agriculture as a fundamental change –
Reduced greenhouse gas emissions –
The adoption of conservation agriculture –
Ecological challenges in the new century –
Apocalyptic thinking as the problem –
Consumerism as competitive disease –
Valuing place and community –
Developing local economies of scale –
8. Techniques of organic gardening and farming –
Multiple cropping –
Underutilised crop –
No-dig gardening –
No-till farming –
Pollination management –
Sheet mulching –
Square foot gardening –
9. Succession planting –
Weed control –
Mulch –
Noxious weed –
Stale seed bed –
Xeriscaping –
Greywater –
Application of recycled greywater –
Organisms used in water purification –
10. Industrial agriculture –
British agricultural revolution –
Farm life in the 15th to 18th century –
Soil maintenance –
Mechanization of agriculture –
Selective breeding –
Agricultural policy –
Foot-and-mouth disease –
Objectives of market intervention –
Arguments against market intervention –
Developed world cases –
Sustainable agriculture.

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