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

Kód výsledku v 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>

Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

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

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

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

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50200 - Economics and Business

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GP13-38994P" target="_blank" >GP13-38994P: Hledání udržitelného způsobu produkce potravin: Sociální a peněžní metabolismus vybraných lokálních potravinových systémů</a><br>

Návaznosti

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Rok uplatnění

2018

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Regional Environmental Change

ISSN

1436-3798

e-ISSN

1436-378X

Svazek periodika

18

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

4

Stát vydavatele periodika

DE - Spolková republika Německo

Počet stran výsledku

13

Strana od-do

951-963

Kód UT WoS článku

000429358700003

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85011277269