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  • Biodynamics agriculture research progress and priorities
    Turinek, Matjaž ...
    Biodynamics (BD) agriculture became the subject of research efforts during the past decades, whereas a part of the scientific community looks at the BD method with skepticism and marks it as ... dogmatic. Nevertheles, as explored in this review, a fair share of the available peer-reviewed research results of controlled field experiments as well as case studies show effects of BD preparations on yield, soil quality and biodiversity. Moreover, BD preparations express a positive envirenmental impact in terms of energy use and efficiency. However, the underlying natural science mechanistic principle of BD preparations is still under investigation. In addition, quality determination methods, based on holistic approaches, are incresigly being investigated and recognized. BD farming strives, as manifested in several publications, to positively impact cultural landscape design as well. Summarized data showed that further research is needed and thus encouraged in the field of food quality comparison/determination, food safety, environmental performance (e.g., footprints), and on the effects of BD farming practices on farm animals.
    Source: Renewable agriculture and food systems. - ISSN 1742-1705 (Letn. 24, št. 2, 2009, str. 146-154)
    Type of material - article, component part
    Publish date - 2009
    Language - english
    COBISS.SI-ID - 2777644
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