- and chapter drafts

Instead of a report, these chapters will be published as a book: N Halberg, HF Alrøe, MT Knudsen, ES Kristensen (eds.) Global Development of Organic Agriculture: Challenges and Prospects. CABI, 2005.

Here is the book table of contents as of June 24th 2005.

Below is a list of the chapters. Note that the final drafts of five of the chapters are available here by kind agreement with CABI.

Preface Draft available 070605

1. Global trends in agriculture and food systems (Marie Trydeman Knudsen, John Byrne, Walter Pengue, Niels Halberg, Jørgen E. Olesen, Venkatesh Iyer, Noah Toly, Åge Dissing, Ingelis Dissing, Chris Kjeldsen)

2. Globalisation, sustainable development: a political ecology strategy to realize ecological justice (John Byrne, Hugo Fjelsted Alrøe, Leigh Glover)

3. Organic agriculture and ecological justice: Ethics and practice (Hugo Fjelsted Alrøe, John Byrne, Leigh Glover) Final draft

4. Ecological economics and organic farming (Paul Kledal, Chris Kjeldsen, Karen Refsgaard)

5. Organic farming in a world of free trade (Chr. Friis Bach)

6. Review of organic farming in developing countries (Nicholas Parrot, Henning Høgh Jensen, Jørgen E. Olesen) Final draft

7. Possibilities for closing the nutrient cycles at urban-rural scale - integrating ecological economics into technical and management perspectives (Karen Refsgaard, Petter D. Jenssen, Jakob Magid)

8. Soil fertility depletion in Sub-Saharan Africa: What is the role of organic agriculture (John Pender, Ole Mertz) Final draft

9. Sustainable veterinary medicine practices in organic farming: a global perspective (Mette Vaarst, Stephen Roderick, Denis Byarugaba, Sofie Kobayashi)

10. The impact of organic farming on food security in a regional and global perspective (Niels Halberg, Timothy B. Sulser, Henning Høgh-Jensen, Mark W. Rosegrant and Marie Trydeman Knudsen)
Final draft

11. Towards a global research programme for organic food and farming (Henrik Egelyng, Henning Høgh Jensen)

12. Synthesis: The potential of organic farming in a globalised world
(Niels Halberg, Hugo F. Alrøe and Erik Steen Kristensen)
Final draft