A critical assessment of organic farming-and-food assertions with particular respect to the UK and the potential environmental benefits of no-till agriculture

By Anthony Trewavas. 2004

217 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Plant Science

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In Ecology

1. Joni Valkila
2. Richard Wood
3. S. Lundie
4. C. Lamine
5. Manfred Lenzen
6. Chris Dey
7. S. Bellon
8. Craig J. Pearson

In General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

1. S. Bellon
2. Joni Valkila
3. Richard Wood
4. S. Lundie
5. C. Lamine
6. Manfred Lenzen
7. Chris Dey
8. Craig J. Pearson

In Plant Science

1. K. Murphy
2. S. Jones
3. S. Bellon
4. Joni Valkila
5. Richard Wood
6. S. Lundie
7. C. Lamine
8. K. G. Campbell

Citations in the corpus

• Evidence of varietal adaptation to organic farming systems (2007, background): “Organic agriculture has been criticized as low-yielding and less efficient than conventional agriculture in its use of land and resources ( Trewavas, 2004 ).”
• Fair Trade organic coffee production in Nicaragua — Sustainable development or a poverty trap? (2009, background): “…before falling steadily during the remainder of the year (ICO, International Coffee Organization, 2009a. 7 Because organic fertilizers release nutrients at times when crops do not utilize them, organic fertilizers may leach more nutrients into waterways than inorganic fertilizers (Trewavas, 2004).”
• Regenerative, Semiclosed Systems: A Priority for Twenty-First-Century Agriculture (2007, background): “By contrast, Trewavas (2004) has concluded that " when problems with agriculture emerge they usually hinge around poor management not mode of agriculture.”
• Is it possible to increase the sustainability of arable and ruminant agriculture by reducing inputs (2009, background): “In contrast, however, Trewavas (2004) avers that exposure to215 manufactured pesticides and sprays is associated with lower rates of cancer than in the216 general population.”
• Nutrient use efficiencies and leaching of organic and conventional cropping systems in Sweden (2006, background): “For example, the Swedish government has established the goal that by the year 2005, 20% of agricultural land should be under organic farming, even though there is a lack of sound scientific evidence to support such legislation ( Trewavas, 2004 ).”
• A comparative study of some environmental impacts of conventional and organic farming in Australia (2006, result): “These results contradict assumptions made by Haas et al. (2000) who expect no differences between farms regarding the primary energy needed for farm buildings, machinery, etc., and the conclusion of Trewavas (2004) (p. 774) that organic and conventional farming were similar in energy efficiency.”
• Conversion to organic farming: a multidimensional research object at the crossroads of agricultural and social sciences. A review (2011, background): “Their assumptions and their specific experimental conditions, as well as the generalisation of their results, have been largely criticised (Elliot and Mumford, 2002; Kirchman and Ryan, 2004; Martini et al., 2004; Trewavas, 2004).”