Organic agriculture can help achieve food and nutrition security by: Improving traditional agricultural yields without forcing producers into dependence on synthetic inputs, thus outputs per area of marginal land increase and stabilise thanks to higher resilience
3. Organic farming:
• Organic farming (OF) is a farming
system that uses environmentally
friendly methods of weed, pest,
and disease control.
The principles and practices of OF have
been expressed in standard of
international federation of organic
agriculture movement as a principle of
health, ecology, fairness and care.
4. principles organic farming:
principle components of organic
farming includes;
crop rotation
green manure
compost
biological pest control
mechanical cultivation
5. History
The concepts of organic agriculture were
developed in the early 1900s by Sir Albert
Howard, F.H. King, Rudolf Steiner, and others
who believed that the use of
animal manures (often made into compost),
cover crops, crop rotation, and biologically
based pest controls resulted in a better farming
system.
6. Organic farming methods:
fertilizers:
,
• synthetic fertilizers are not used,
• building and maintaining a rich,
• Cover crops are commonly
planted before or after the cash
crop season or
in conjunction with crop rotation
and can also be planted between
the rows of some crops, such as
tree fruits
• living soil through the addition of
organic matter is a priority for
organic farmers.
7.
8. Pest control:
• Organic pesticides are derived
from naturally occurring sources
caterpillar pests,
• the bacteria Bacillus
thuringiensis, which is used to
control
• organic pest
control integrates biological, cultural,
and genetic controls to minimize pest
damage.
10. • Organic farming a prospect to food
security:
Food security exist when all people e
at all time have physical social and
economic access to sufficient safe and
nutritious food which meets their
dietary needs and food preferences for
an active and healthy life (FAO 2002).
11. •Food insecurity is often rooted in poverty and has long-term
impacts on the ability of families, communities and countries
to develop.
Current status Nearly 800 million people across the globe go
to bed hungry every night. To meet the needs of a world
population expected to reach 9 billion by 2050, agricultural
production will need to increase by at least 60 percent.
12. • Organic farming enhances
food security by
:
improving resistance to
diseases and pests,
• combating desertification
by reducing soil erosion
and
• protecting water
resources, and maintaining
and improving
environmental service
13. • 2014-2015 Global Food Policy Report
INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY
RESEARCH INSTITUTE (IFPRI) This 2014–
2015 Global Food Policy Report is the
fourth in an annual series that provides
a comprehensive overview of major
food policy developments and events.
This year’s annual report examines major
food policy issues, global and regional
developments, and commitments made in
2015, and presents data on key food policy
indicators.
14. Livelihood:
• A livelihood comprises the
capabilities, assets
(including both material and
social resources) and
activities required for a
means of living.
• A livelihood is sustainable
when it can cope with and
recover from stresses and
shocks and maintain or
enhance its capabilities and
assets both now and in the
future, while not
undermining the natural
resource base.
15. WORLDBANK. Sustainable livelihoods focuses not
on the needs of the rural poor, but rather, builds
on the existing assets of the poor, both at the
community level, and as individuals.
16. Prospect to the environment:
Organic farming is better for our
environment. Organic farmers do not
use synthetic fertilizers, pesticides and
herbicides.
• Organic agriculture reduces non-
renewable energy use by decreasing
agrochemical needs (these require
high quantities of fossil fuel to be
produced). Organic agriculture
contributes to mitigating the
greenhouse effect and global warming
through its ability to sequester carbon
in the soil.
17. Conclusion:
• Organic farming helps in reducing soil
pollution and air pollution. Use of
harmful chemical fertilizers and
pesticides will poison our food cycle.
•
• India has the most organic farmers in
the whole world.
• The only disadvantage of organic
farming is it is costlier in comparison
to conventional farming method.
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