Considering certified organic production as ‘zero’ (including the absence of genetically modified seeds and feed, and synthetic pesticides and fertilizers as inputs), we outline how, since the 1990s, China has developed a unique system of progressively stringent food quality production...

Natural fertilizers were used in agriculture since ancient times and are still the best method of soil fertilization. Traditional agriculture, practiced in rural areas of Romania, contributes to the maintenance of soils fertilization ecological practices. Our research shows the evolution of the...

Ecological engineering has recently emerged as a paradigm for considering pest management approaches that are based on cultural practices and informed by ecological knowledge rather than on high technology approaches such as synthetic pesticides and genetically engineered crops (Gurr et al....

The present paper deals with the creation of maps for the sake of a special map portal using the database of eco farms in the Czech Republic. The map output is being developed and implemented within the framework of the Research Program in mutual cooperation of the Department of Information...

The traditional command and control approach and the more recent free market have proven inadequate for promoting ecological agricultural development in China. Organic certification represents a regulated market mechanism with the potential to stimulate ecologically based agricultural research,...

A conceptual framework influenced bythe concept of moral ecology is developed andused to analyze the transition fromtechnological (green revolution) to ecological(organic) rice farming by resource poor farmersfrom the Philippine island of Bohol. This MoralEcology Framework (MEF) focuses on...

The paper is focused on analysing of chosen organic commodities in the South Bohemian areas from the view of production and distribution. Analysis is based on data of Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Agricultural Economics and Information and survey of market-influential producers in the...

The article is presenting results of analysis realized within the research programme at the Faculty of Agriculture of JU MSM6007665806 focused on bioproduction in the mountains and on the foothills in South Bohemia (ecological system of farming). It deals both with breeding itself and with...

This paper presents the results of the assessment of profitability and risks of agricultural holdings with the ecological agriculture. The first part deals with the rate of profitability. These results indicated improving economic situation for both ecological and organic agricultural holdings....

The ecological agriculture as a underlying activity supporting bio production, contributing to the landscape management, to people and animals welfare and healthy represents very specific activity, limited by the legislative, possibilities act. It is necessary to try to resolve, actual...