organic farming en · NOUN
Meanings
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(uncountable) An approach to farming based on biological methods that avoid the use of synthetic crop or livestock production inputs and on a broadly defined philosophy of farming that puts value on ecological harmony, resource efficiency, and non-intensive animal husbandry practices.
Another problem was that some organism groups have been studied more frequently than other because they are very relevant to organic farming, for example natural enemies of pests, such as carabids, and vascular plants (21% and 35% of studies regarding species richness, respectively).
2005 March 14, Janne Bengtsson et al., “The effects of organic agriculture on biodiversity and abundance: a meta-analysis”, in Journal of Applied Ecology, volume 42, number 2, →DOI, page 246:
Antonyms
factory farming · intensive farming
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he חַקְלָאוּת אוֹרְגָּנִית (approach to farming based on biological methods) · gl agricultura ecolóxica (approach to farming based on biological methods) · vi nông nghiệp hữu cơ (approach to farming based on biological methods) · pl rolnictwo ekologiczne (approach to farming based on biological methods) · it agricoltura biologica (approach to farming based on biological methods) · de ökologische Landwirtschaft (approach to farming based on biological methods) · fr agriculture biologique (approach to farming based on biological methods) · hu biogazdálkodás (approach to farming based on biological methods) · fi luomutuotanto (approach to farming based on biological methods) · fi luomuviljely (approach to farming based on biological methods)