scholarly journals Farmer Awareness and Implementation of Sustainable Agriculture Practices in Different Types of Farms in Poland

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (19) ◽  
pp. 8022
Author(s):  
Monika Gebska ◽  
Anna Grontkowska ◽  
Wiesław Swiderek ◽  
Barbara Golebiewska
Keyword(s):  
Beef Cattle ◽  
Sustainable Agriculture ◽  
Agricultural Policy ◽  
Crop Production ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Agricultural System ◽  
Dairy Farmers ◽  
Sustainable Practices ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Common

Sustainability has been an emerging issue for years in the economy and agriculture. Making agriculture sustainable has become so essential that it has become part of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). However, producers ultimately decide individually the practices they implement. This is why farmers play a central role in ensuring a sustainable agricultural system, which results from farmers’ knowledge and expectations. Although numerous studies address sustainability issues, little is known about farmers’ knowledge and implementation of sustainable practices at different types of farms, especially in central and eastern Europe. This study aimed to determine Polish farmers’ awareness of sustainability with regards to animal and crop production. This paper also shows how farmers value the advantages arising from sustainable production. The study was carried out among 300 farms classified by type (dairy, beef cattle, pork, and crop production). The research instrument used was a questionnaire, with the Likert scale. The results show that dairy farmers and pork farmers declared higher knowledge and better implement sustainable practices than other farmers. The producers’ views on the benefits coming from sustainable agriculture varied. However, the two most significant advantages were recognized—the protection of water against pollution and the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.

Agriculture, the EC and the WTO: A Legal Critical Analysis of the Concepts of Sustainability and Multifunctionality

2002 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 144-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Cardwell
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Policy ◽  
Crop Production ◽  
World Trade Organisation ◽  
Environmental Agreements ◽  
Agricultural Policies ◽  
Multilateral Environmental Agreements ◽  
The Common ◽  
Brundtland Commission ◽  
Rural Policy ◽  
The Eu

The agricultural policies of the Member States of the EC have for many years now been controlled from Brussels under the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). In recent years the CAP has, together with other policies of the EC, been refocused from crop production support to a European rural policy, with the term ‘sustainability’ being written into many policy documents. This term has achieved international recognition and the definition used by the Brundtland Commission has been widely accepted, as evidenced by its use in OECD documentation. While the term ‘sustainability’ has been written into World Trade Organisation (WTO) texts, the robustness of the term is questionable. The question then arises as to the legal interaction of WTO texts and multilateral environmental agreements, which do have ‘sustainability’ as their core philosophy. A new term has entered the regional and global debate in the policy area of agriculture, that of ‘multifunctionality’. The EC is increasingly defining agriculture as being multifunctional. This term has yet to be clearly defined at EC level, although the OECD has done some work in this area. How the millennium round of WTO negotiations reacts to the term ‘multifunctionality’ will have an important impact on the EC's CAP. This paper examines the issues of sustainability and multifunctionality, with particular reference to the agricultural policies of the EU and WTO, and their interaction.

scholarly journals Sustainable Agriculture: Economic Aspects

Ekonomika ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Remigijus Čiegis
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Agriculture ◽  
Environmental Economics ◽  
Agricultural Policy ◽  
Common Agricultural Policy ◽  
Economic Impacts ◽  
Ecological Economics ◽  
Agricultural Practices ◽  
Economic Aspects ◽  
Policy Reforms ◽  
The Common

Sustainable agriculture synthesizes a variety of concepts associated with agricultural practices and their socio-economic impacts. In this article, some-requirements, for the development of sustainable-agriculture in Lithuania are analysed within the ecological economics framework. First, sustainable agriculture is discussed within the context of environmental economics. After this more theoretical part, the Common Agricultural Policy reforms, trends of sustainable agriculture in EU and requirements for the development of sustainable agriculture in Lithuania are elaborated.

8. European Integration in the Image and the Shadow of Agriculture

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann-Christina L. Knudsen
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Agricultural Policy ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Unintended Consequences ◽  
Political Commitment ◽  
Special Position ◽  
European Union Enlargement ◽  
Financial Pressure ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Eu

This chapter examines the common agricultural policy (CAP) in the context of political rather than economic terms. It first provides an overview of the development of the European agricultural welfare state, explaining why and how agriculture was able to claim and uphold a special position in Europe. It then considers CAP's achievements and unintended consequences and cites financial pressure as a strong incentive for CAP reform in the early 1990s, as was the pernicious international impact of the policy. It shows how concerns about the environment and food safety, and about the possible impact of European Union enlargement into Central and Eastern Europe, maintained the momentum for reform. Given the broad political commitment to supporting farm incomes, and sustaining a viable countryside in the EU, however, the chapter suggests that CAP is likely to endure in some form or other.

Preliminary effects of altering plane of nutrition during different stages of the life cycle, and gender, on beef cattle performance

2005 ◽  
Vol 2005 ◽  
pp. 2-2 ◽  
Author(s):  
T.W.J. Keady ◽  
R.M. Kirkland ◽  
D.J. Kilpatrick
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Beef Cattle ◽  
Agricultural Policy ◽  
Free Market ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Stocking Rate ◽  
Concentrate Supplementation ◽  
Effective Performance ◽  
The Common ◽  
And Gender

Post Mid Term Review of the Common Agricultural Policy, beef production must survive in a subsidy-free, market led environment. It is essential that producers increase final carcass value by achieving cost effective performance from birth to slaughter. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effects of plane of nutrition during the growing and finishing indoor feeding periods, and stocking rate and concentrate supplementation at pasture on the performance of steers and heifers from weaning to finishing.

scholarly journals Role of Biological Nitrogen Fixation (BNF) in Sustainable Agriculture: A Review

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rittwika Mukherjee ◽  
Supatra Sen
Keyword(s):  
Nitrogen Fixation ◽  
Sustainable Agriculture ◽  
Biological Nitrogen Fixation ◽  
Crop Production ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Ghg Emissions ◽  
N Fertilization ◽  
Agricultural System ◽  
Biological Nitrogen

Agriculture has an enormous environmental footprint. One of the best ways to mitigate climate change is to create balanced food systems based on sustainable agriculture. To reduce the chemical dependence scientists are engineering crop plants for N 2 fixation and they are focused on the biological process BNF (Biological Nitrogen Fixation) for the needs of N2 for crop plant soils. N2 fixed by the BNF process reduces the production cost, Green House gas (GHG) emissions, pollution of surface and ground water. Several management practices are there which influence BNF process in agricultural system. They are N- fertilization species genotype and cultivar and seeding ratios. Better management practices can help to improve N2 fixation. This review highlights the agro-economic importance of BNF and shows it as a cost effective, non- polluting way to improve the soil fertility and crop production.

scholarly journals Advantages of Grain Legume-Cereal Intercropping in Sustainable Agriculture

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 1560-1566
Author(s):  
Aybegün Ton
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Sustainable Agriculture ◽  
Crop Production ◽  
Animal Feed ◽  
Cropping System ◽  
Grain Legume ◽  
Agricultural System ◽  
Total N ◽  
Ecological Principles ◽  
Cereal Grain

Sustainable agriculture bases on certain ecological principles in both of crop production and livestocks. Legume-cereal intercropping in sustainable agricultural cropping system is the most applied in the intercropping systems in the World. Legume-cereal intercropping have many benefits such soil conservation, weed control, animal feed and effective land use, greater yield and quality in low-input agricultural system. Land use efficiently is available to evaluate the advantages of intercrop in sustainable agriculture to meet food demand due to increase in population. Amount of N2 fixed by intercropped legume is less compared to mono crop legume due to competition with cereal. However, proportion of total N derived from fixation (Ndfa %) in legume intercropped with cereal was greater than mono crop legume. N-transfer from the legume to neighbouring plant may be possible, but it can be affected by a lot of factors. The principal aim of present study is to define advantages of cereal-grain legume intercrops in sustainable agriculture.

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