Organic farming in the past and today : sociometabolic perspective on a Central European case study

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14230%2F18%3A00100781" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14230/18:00100781 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10113-016-1099-8" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10113-016-1099-8</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10113-016-1099-8" target="_blank" >10.1007/s10113-016-1099-8</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Organic farming in the past and today : sociometabolic perspective on a Central European case study
Original language description
This paper contributes to the vivid academic debate on potentially more sustainable models of food production, focusing especially on energy issues. Applying social metabolism and energy flow analysis, it compares the functioning of a current small-scale organic family farm in the village of Holubí Zhoř, Czech Republic, with the historical performance of the village agroecosystem in c.1840. Historical data from the Franciscan stable cadastre and current data from direct field research are employed to quantify main productive assets (land, livestock, machinery and labour) and related energy flows into energy balance indicators. Their comparison shows that the present farm lies halfway between modern mechanized and traditional organic agriculture and thus constitutes an indicative case of the limits and potentialities of present-day more sustainable farm systems. Methodologically, the study is innovative by applying the social metabolism approach on the local (village and farm) level in the context of the global North, and by advancing the use of Energy Return On Investment (EROI) indicators for agroecosystems.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50200 - Economics and Business

Project
<a href="/en/project/GP13-38994P" target="_blank" >GP13-38994P: Quest for sustainable food production: Social and financial metabolism of selected local food systems</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2018
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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