The document discusses the principles and practices of Natural Agriculture. It summarizes that Natural Agriculture aims to work with nature by cultivating soil in its natural state without chemical fertilizers or pesticides and respecting seeds for their natural purity. The goal is to produce healthier crops that are better tasting through conscious collaboration with nature. Natural Agriculture recognizes plants as living entities and cares for them as children. It takes a philosophical approach focused on well-being of ecosystems rather than just eliminating chemicals.
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Series of Lectures By Mr. Allah Dad Khan Former DG Agriculture Extension KPK , Provincial Project Director CMP II MINFAl Islamabad and Visiting Professor the University of Agriculture Peshawar Pakistan
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Series of Lectures By Mr. Allah Dad Khan Former DG Agriculture Extension KPK , Provincial Project Director CMP II MINFAl Islamabad and Visiting Professor the University of Agriculture Peshawar Pakistan
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A Series of Lectures By Mr. Allah Dad Khan Former DG Agriculture Extension KPK , Provincial Project Director CMP II MINFAl Islamabad and Visiting Professor the University of Agriculture Peshawar Pakistan
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Natural organic and biological farming A Lecture By Mr Allah Dad Khan Former ...Mr.Allah Dad Khan
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43 . kitchen gardening ( a new trend) A Series of Lectures By Mr. Allah Da...Mr.Allah Dad Khan
A Series of Lectures By Mr. Allah Dad Khan Former DG Agriculture Extension KPK , Provincial Project Director CMP II MINFAl Islamabad and Visiting Professor the University of Agriculture Peshawar Pakistan
A summary of what Madeleine Phillips, a senior at Colgate University, learned while interning with Jacquie Ottman on her Leftovers book. This book focuses on the social and cultural history of leftovers, as well as provides solutions and strategies on how to reduce food waste by properly managing our leftovers.
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Organic Edible Schoolyards & Gardening with Children
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Double Food Production from your School Garden with Organic Tech
http://scribd.com/doc/239851079
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Free School Gardening Art Posters
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Companion Planting Increases Food Production from School Gardens
http://scribd.com/doc/239851159
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Healthy Foods Dramatically Improves Student Academic Success
http://scribd.com/doc/239851348
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City Chickens for your Organic School Garden
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Simple Square Foot Gardening for Schools - Teacher Guide
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Double Food Production from your School Garden with Organic Tech
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Free School Gardening Art Posters
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Companion Planting Increases Food Production from School Gardens
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Healthy Foods Dramatically Improves Student Academic Success
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Organic farming is a production system which avoids or largely excludes the use of synthetically compounded fertilizers, pesticides , etc. and uses fertilizers of organic origin such as compost manure, green manure, and bone meal etc. and emphasis on techniques such as crop rotation and companion planting.
The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.
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1. In what ways does industrialized farming affect ecological integrity?
Answer: As American agriculture has become more industrial, it has become increasingly dependent on fossil energy and other finite natural resources. The total food system currently claims about twenty-percent of all fossil energy used in the U.S., with farming accounting for about one-third of the total percentage. In fact, our industrial food system requires about ten calories of fossil energy for every calorie of food energy produced. Supplies of fossil energy are finite, and there is a growing consensus that fossil energy in the future will be far less plentiful and costlier.
Pollution represents negative energy, in that it destroys the usefulness of other energy resources or requires energy to mitigate its negative impacts. Industrial agriculture pollutes the air, water, and soil with toxic agrochemicals and livestock manure. It is a major source of pollution, accounting for more than twenty-percent of total greenhouse gas emissions, even more than transportation. In fact, agriculture has become the number one nonpoint source of pollution in the U.S., creating huge dead zones in the Chesapeake Bay and Gulf of Mexico. An industrial agriculture is not ecologically sustainable.
Industrial agriculture also is a significant contributor to the depletion of social energy. Farm workers today are among the lowest paid workers in the U.S., while working under dangerous and disagreeable conditions, most without adequate health care or other fringe benefits. A growing reliance on migrant farm workers also creates cultural and political conflicts, particularly in times when good paying jobs are few. Many farm families fare little better, as independent farmers are periodically forced out of business to make room for further corporate consolidation. Therefore, rural communities in agricultural areas have suffered decades of economic and social decline and decay.
2. The concept of ecosystem services is gaining increasing recognition. What are some of the most important ecosystem services provided by agriculture? To what extent do you think a threatened loss of ecosystem services can drive change in policy and practice? Why?
Answer: Ecosystem services are defined as “the benefits provided by ecosystems to humans”. Many key ecosystem services provided by biodiversity, such as nutrient cycling, carbon sequestration, pest regulation and pollination, sustain agricultural productivity. Promoting the healthy functioning of ecosystems ensures the resilience of agriculture as it intensifies to meet growing demands for food production. Climate change and other stresses have the potential to make major impacts on key functions, such as pollination and pest regulation services. Learning to strengthen the ecosystem linkages that promote resilience and to mitigate the forces that impede the ability of agro-ecosystems to deliver goods and services remains an important challenge..
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Organic Edible Schoolyards & Gardening with Children
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Free School Gardening Art Posters
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Companion Planting Increases Food Production from School Gardens
http://scribd.com/doc/239851159
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Healthy Foods Dramatically Improves Student Academic Success
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Organic Edible Schoolyards & Gardening with Children
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Double Food Production from your School Garden with Organic Tech
http://scribd.com/doc/239851079
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Free School Gardening Art Posters
http://scribd.com/doc/239851159`
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Companion Planting Increases Food Production from School Gardens
http://scribd.com/doc/239851159
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Healthy Foods Dramatically Improves Student Academic Success
http://scribd.com/doc/239851348
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City Chickens for your Organic School Garden
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Simple Square Foot Gardening for Schools - Teacher Guide
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3. What is Natural Agriculture? The principles and practices of Natural Agriculture were developed in Japan in the early decades of the 20th century by Mokichi Okada, founder of Shumei
4. “ The principle of Natural Agriculture is an over-riding respect and concern for Nature,” stated Okada in his book ‘A Great Agricultural Revolution.”
5. While many modern agricultural practices are based on a belief in the need to control and manipulate the growing process, Natural Agriculture works with and learns from Nature
6. Thus, the soil is cultivated in its natural state without the addition of foreign elements. Chemical fertilizers prohibit the soil’s natural energy from being transferred to the plants.
7. In its natural state, soil is pure and contains all the elements needed for healthy plant growth.
8. By forming a conscious collaboration with Nature, we can guide, aid and enhance natural food production.
9. A plant grows amid a myriad of relationships that make up the natural environment of the plant, and the plant is affected by its interaction with all.
10. Seeds are respected for their natural purity and are not manipulated for specified ends. Extensive experience has shown that this approach leads to crops that are healthier, stay fresh longer and are better tasting than those produced by conventional agricultural methods.
12. We care for plants as we would our own children.
13. The organic food movement is geared toward eliminating the use of chemicals in food production for health purposes.
14. Natural Agriculture has a more philosophical approach to agriculture and aims not only to produce mental, spiritual and physical health but also in fostering the well-being of entire ecosystems. In Natural Agriculture each decision is based on consideration for the entire web of life...
15. While Natural Agriculture may use natural compost such as leaves and grasses, it does not use manure because it does not believe this benefits the natural soil. When compost is used, local materials are encouraged, and are used not as a nutrient but to keep the soil moist, warm and soft. Natural Agriculture does not use any fertilizers, not even those approved for organic.
16. Everything needed by the plant for growth is already present in the soil. Each year through the practice of Natural Agriculture, the condition of the soil improves on its own.
17. Natural Agriculture does not recognize any insect as a “pest” that needs to be exterminated by chemical means. There may be reasons for the presence of these creatures which we may not understand, for example a balancing of Nature’s systems. Most often an imbalance of insects can be successfully addressed through natural means.
18. A key tenet of Natural Agriculture is the vital energy of freshly grown food. Therefore it promotes the consumption of food grown locally. Food that has been shipped from long distances loses important nutritional value.
19. Thus Natural Agriculture involves more than agricultural technique; it means changing the way one thinks about Nature. It means relating to the natural world through one’s heart, not only one’s head. It means listening, respecting and responding to, rather than dictating, the needs of Nature.
20. Through the practice of Natural Agriculture the producers and consumers of food develop a unique relationship, based on a support system of deep appreciation and gratitude.
21. “ In Natural Agriculture soil, farmer and consumer are equal partners. No longer is the soil considered lifeless, the consumer dutiless and the farmer wholly responsible for coaxing life from the former and serving the latter. Each partner is integral. The soil grows and provides. The farmer tends the soil and grows the plants. The consumer participates, appreciates and educates. The process behind eating changes from being an assembly line to a true food system.” - Lisa Hamilton from ‘Farming to Create Heaven on Earth.’
22. Thank you for visiting today and for your interest in Natural Agriculture!