Organic farm conventionalisation and farmer practices in China, Brazil and Egypt

Agronomy for Sustainable Development

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 689-698

  Oelofse, Myles ^a   Høgh Jensen, Henning ^b   Abreu, Lucimar S ^c   Almeida, Gustavo F ^d   El Araby, Ahmed ^e   Hui, Qiao Yu ^f   Sultan, Tursinbek ^g   De Neergaard, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c EMBRAPA CERRADOS   (Brazil)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO CARLOS   (Brazil)

^e Ain Shams University   (Egypt)

^f CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^g LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT IN TRANSITION ECONOMIES IAMO   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agroecology; Brazil; China; Conventionalisation; Egypt; Organic agriculture; Sustainable agriculture

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; AGROECOLOGY; AGRONOMY; ALTERNATIVE AGRICULTURE; CROP PRODUCTION; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; ORGANIC FARMING; PEST CONTROL; PRIORITIZATION; SOIL FERTILITY; WEED CONTROL;

BRAZIL; CHINA; EGYPT;

EID: 84860427826     PISSN: 17740746     EISSN: 17730155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13593-011-0043-z     Document Type: Article

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