Bridges between family farming and organic farming: a study case of the Iberian Peninsula
| Autor: | Daniela Costa, Helena Correia, Cristina Amaro da Costa, Luis T. Guerra, Paula Correia, Raquel Guiné, Davide Gaião |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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cultural practices
geography.geographical_feature_category family farming Agroforestry business.industry technical itinerary 050204 development studies Agriculture (General) 05 social sciences Agriculture S1-972 Geography Peninsula 0502 economics and business Organic farming 050207 economics General Agricultural and Biological Sciences business checklist |
| Zdroj: | Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP) instacron:RCAAP Open Agriculture, Vol 4, Iss 1, Pp 727-736 (2019) |
| Popis: | The aim of this work was to identify procedures adopted by family farms in the centre and north of Portu- gal and Galicia (Spain), and to verify whether they resem- ble those used in organic farming. A checklist was pre- pared in Portuguese and Spanish and applied personally to managers of family farms. The participation was volun- tary and 125 valid responses were collected. The results show that farmers included in the study owned small family farms where labour is mainly per- formed by the family, and tended to adopt, in general, good agricultural practices, many of which are common to organic farming, such as crop rotation, avoidance of GMO or avoidance of phytoregulators. However, they failed to adopt some important practices, including the use of seeds inoculated with mycorrhizae, composting, biological and biotechnical control or avoidance of chemical control for plant protection. It was further concluded that gender and age of the farmers did not significantly influence the type of agricultural practices, contrarily to the level of educa- tion and region, which were significantly associated with many of the cultural interventions investigated. info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion |
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