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2) However, organic farming is inefficient and produces lower crop yields than conventional farming. While it avoids pesticides, the environmental benefits are small compared to transportation emissions from shipping organic food long distances.
3) Studies have found no significant nutritional or safety difference between organic and conventional crops. Factors like freshness, variety, and cooking method have a greater impact on food quality than farming practices.
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Sustainable agriculture and food securityMights Rasing
Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security presented by Rev. Pepz Cunanan at the Young Leaders Summit 2014, organized by Young People's Ministries
http://pinoyyouth.org
A critical assessment of organic farming and foodShaheenPraveen1
Organic farming is a challenging type farming because of its initial less production rate but could prove to be a boon if we do proper planning and management.
What is organic farming and what are the process for organic farming in the context of Nepal. In previous presentation there are some fonts problems so we correct in this ppt. In this presentation we mention our company short introduction. In this presentation we use some nepali plants name. If any organization and person willing to do partnership with us please send your proposal to pioneeragroconcern@yahoo.com
This PPT gives a detailed information about
1.Introduction to Organic Farming
2.Review of Literature about Organic Farming
3.Materials & Methods used to establish an "Organic Kitchen Garden"
4.Implementation
5.Observation & Results
6.Conclusion
The following is some great basics about organic gardening that a former professor of mine presented. The slideshow of the Power Point is embedded below. Tell me what you think!
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3. Starting off
Work in pairs. Match the photos (1-6)
with the phrases in the box.
• pesticide use
• battery farming
• outdoor farming
• crop rotation
• genetic engineering
• natural fertiliser
4. Starting off
Work in small groups.
1. What is 'organic' food?
2. Do you eat organic food? Why? I Why not?
3. Which of the photos in Exercise 1 relate to
organic food?
4. How important are these points when you
choose food to eat?
a.price b.taste c.freshness d.appearance
e.packaging f.country of origin
g.contents h.farming methods
6. Exam information• Reading Passage 2 is divided into paragraphs
or sections: A, B. C, etc.
• The paragraph headings task comes before
the passage.
7. Organic food: Why?
Today, many governments
are promoting organic or
natural farming methods
that avoid the use of
pesticides and other
artifical products. The aim
is to show that they care
about the environment
and about people's health.
But is this the right
approach?
8. A Europe is now the biggest market for
organic food in the world, expanding by 25
percent a year over the past 10 years. So what
is the attraction of organic food for some
people? The really important thing is that
organic sounds more 'natural'. Eating organic is
a way of defining oneself as natural, good,
caring, different from the junk-food-scoffing
masses. As one journalist puts it: 'It feels closer
to the source, the beginning, the start of
things.' The real desire is to be somehow close
to the soil, to Mother Nature
9. B Unlike conventional farming, the organic
approach means farming with natural, rather than
man-made, fertilisers and pesticides. Techniques such
as crop rotation improve soil quality and help organic
farmers compensate for the absence of man-made
chemicals. As a method of food production, organic
is, however, inefficient in its use of labour and land;
there are severe limits to how much food can be
produced. Also, the environmental benefits of not
using artificial fertiliser are tiny compared with the
amount of carbon dioxide emitted by transporting
food (a great deal of Britain's organic produce is
shipped in from other countries and transported from
shop to home by car).
10. C Organic farming is often claimed to be
safer than conventional farming - for the
environment and for consumers. Yet
studies into organic farming worldwide
continue to reject this claim. An extensive
review by the UK Food Standards Agency
found that there was no statistically
significant difference between organic and
conventional crops. Even where results
indicated there was evidence of a
difference, the reviewers found no sign that
these differences would have any
noticeable effect on health.
11. D The simplistic claim that organic food is more
nutritious than conventional food was always likely to
be misleading. Food is a natural product, and the
health value of different foods will vary for a number
of reasons, including freshness, the way the food is
cooked, the type of soil it is grown in, the amount of
sunlight and rain crops have received, and so on.
Likewise, the flavour of a carrot has less to do with
whether it was fertilised with manure or something
out of a plastic sack than with the variety of carrot
and how long ago it was dug up. The differences
created by these things are likely to be greater than
any differences brought about by using an organic or
nonorganic system of production. Indeed, even some
'organic' farms are quite different from one another.
12. E The notion that organic food is safer than
'normal' food is also contradicted by the fact that
many of our most common foods are full of natural
toxins. Parsnips cause blisters on the skin of
agricultural workers. Toasting bread creates
carcinogens. As one research expert says: 'People
think that the more natural something is, the better it
is for them. That is simply not the case. In fact, it is
the opposite that is true: the closer a plant is to its
natural state, the more likely it is that it will poison
you. Naturally, many plants do not want to be eaten,
so we have spent 10,000 years developing agriculture
and breeding out harmful traits from crops.
13. F Yet educated Europeans are more scared of
eating traces of a few, strictly regulated, man-made
chemicals than they are of eating the ones that
nature created directly. Surrounded by plentiful
food, it's not nature they worry about, but
technology. Our obsessions with the ethics and
safety of what we eat - concerns about antibiotics in
animals, additives in food, GM crops and so on-are
symptomatic of a highly technological society that
has little faith in its ability to use this technology
wisely. In this context, the less something is touched
by the human hand, the healthier people assume it
must be.
14. G Ultimately, the organic farming movement is
an expensive luxury for shoppers in well-manicured
Europe. For developing parts of the world, it is
irrelevant. To European environmentalists, the fact
that organic methods require more labour and land
than conventional ones to get the same yields is a
good thing; to a farmer in rural Africa, it is a disaster.
Here, land tends to be so starved and crop yields so
low that there simply is not enough organic matter
to put back into the soil. Perhaps the focus should
be on helping these countries to gain access to the
most advanced farming techniques, rather than
going back to basics.
15. Exercise 1
Work in pairs. You are going to read a magazine
article about organic food. First, read the title
and the subheading, then discuss what you
expect to read about in the rest of the article.
17. Exercise 3
Read headings i-ix below and underline the key ideas. An example (viii) has
been done for you.
Questions 1- 7
The reading passage has seven paragraphs, A- G. Choose the correct heading
for paragraphs B- G from the list of headings below.
List of Headings
I Research into whether organic food is better for us
ii Adding up the cost of organic food
iii The factors that can affect food quality
iv The rich and poor see things differently
v A description of organic farming
vi Testing the taste of organic food
vii Fear of science has created the organic trend
viii The main reason for the popularity of organic food
ix The need to remove hidden dangers from food
Paragraph A . ... viii ..
Paragraph B ………..
Paragraph C ............
Paragraph D ………..
Paragraph E ………..
Paragraph F ………..
Paragraph G ………..
18. Exercise 4
Now read the article and choose the
correct heading for each paragraph.
Exam advice Matching headings
• Read the headings, underlining the
key ideas. • Read each paragraph
carefully, one by one, to choose the
best heading.
19. Exercise 5
Look at Questions 8-13 below and underline the
key ideas in the questions and the options (A-E).
20. Exercise 6
Now scan the
passage to find
where the key ideas
are mentioned.
Read those parts
carefully and choose
the correct options.
21. Exam advise pick from list
• Use the key ideas in the questions to help you find
the right place in the passage.
• Underline the answers in the passage and match
them to the options.
• The answers may come from one section of the
passage or from several paragraphs
22. Exercise 7
Work in pairs.
• How popular is organic food in your country?
• Do you think people should be encouraged to
eat organic food? Why? I Why not?