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S14 | ORGANIC HORTICULTURE: Productivity and sustainability
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WELCOME
Demand for organic food products continues to increase worldwide, as consumers increase their demand safer and healthier food, produced in more environmentally-friendly systems. This trend is now extending beyond food and fresh produce into processed food, flowers and other non-food commodities. The organic production system relies on ecological processes, biodiversity and cycles adapted to local conditions and it is guided by such basic principles as health, ecology, fairness and care that promote sustainability. As a consequence there are some limitations to organic management, compared with non-organic management, since organic production regulations exclude or limit chemical inputs that are used conventionally to increase crop productivity and there may be poor availability of organically-acceptable inputs as well as other site-specific factors, e.g. pests.
Horticulture is generally practiced on specialized farms and targets specific markets demanding certain quality. Some of these specialized, intensive and market-orientated systems can lead to implementation of short rotations and thus put pressure on soil fertility, pest, disease and weed management. Organic horticulture has to meet these demands and, in addition, meet the demand for optimum yields and lower production costs. The choice of cultivar is an important factor that affects the performance of organic production and breeding programs need to develop cultivars that perform well under low-input conditions. Similarly, issues such as nutrient management especially nitrogen, optimization of cultural practices and crop protection methods, development of post-harvest techniques to extend shelf-life, and improvement of human nutritional, processing and sensory quality and safety, are of major concern. Thus the goal of this symposium is to highlight current research work on organic horticulture that targets increased productivity in harmony with agronomic, environmental and socio-economic sustainability.
Uygun Aksoy and Isabel Mourão
Conveners IHC2010 Organic Horticulture Symposium
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SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
CONVENERS
Uygun Aksoy, Ege University, Turkey
Isabel Mourão, ESAPL/IPVC, Portugal
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Alison Hodder, FAO, Italy
Antonio Alonso, CIFAED, Spain
Francisco Montero Riquelme, UCLM,
Franco P. Weibel, FiBL, Switzerland
Jorge Ferreira, AgroSanus, Portugal
Kristian Thorup Kristensen, UA/FAS, Denmark
Lahcen Kenny, IAV CHA, Morrocco
Lina Al Bitar, IAMBari, Italy
Luis Miguel Brito, ESAPL/IPVC, Portugal
Miguel Altieri, DESPM/UC, USA
Mohamed Ben-Kheder, CTAB, Tunisia
Nadia Scialabba, FAO, Italy
Niels Halberg, ICROFS, Denmark; ISHS
Robert K. Prange, AAFC/AAC, Canada; ISHS
Sang Mok Sohn, DKU, Republic of Korea
Ulrich Köpke, ISOFAR, Germany
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