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What is Organic Agriculture

Handbook of Research on Globalized Agricultural Trade and New Challenges for Food Security
A production system which improves ecosystem, preserve soil fertility, protects humans’ health. Considering local climates, it preserves biodiversity in the territory and does not use components which can be harmful for environment.
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Agricultural Trade and Undernourishment, Nutrition, and Dietary Diversity: The Use of Elite Selection Cultivars of Legumes
Anna Veber (Omsk State Agrarian University, Russia), Svetlana Leonova (Bashkir State Agrarian University, Russia), Elena Meleshkina (All-Russian Research Institute of Grain and Grain Products, Russia), Zhanbota Esmurzaeva (Omsk State Agrarian University, Russia), and Tamara Nikiforova (Orenburg State University, Russia)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-1042-1.ch013
Abstract
The results described in this chapter are of the investigation based on the collaborative research of scientists from the three Russian universities (Omsk State Agrarian University, Bashkir State Agrarian University, and Orenburg State University) which started in 2014. The authors assess various indicators of food safety. The study includes physical and chemical properties, technological characteristics, and chemical composition of new elite selection cultivars of pea (“Pisum arvense”, the harvest of 2018, Bashkir Scientific and Research Institute of Agriculture) and haricot bean (harvest of 2018, Omsk State Agrarian University). Most of the samples have increased phytochemical capacity and high protein concentration (21.15-22.49% in haricot bean; 19.38-23.75% in pea). The authors demonstrate that these cultivars can be used for the enrichment of foodstuff and the creation of new functional foods.
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The Role of Private Labels in the Organic Food Market
A holistic production management system that promotes and enhances agro-ecosystem health, including biodiversity, biological cycles, and soil biological activity.
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The Role of Polyculture in Sustainable Agricultural Development and Prevention of Land Degradation
A traditional agricultural practice that involves the use of as many natural preparations as possible in the production process in order to preserve the quality of food, food nutrients, as well as human health in the final instance.
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