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- Title
Organic Agriculture and Foods for Sustainable Food Production and Safety, An updated Review.
- Authors
Attia, Youssef; Asiry, Khalid Ali; Edris, Sherif; Al-Qurashi, Adel D.; Ibrahim, Omer H. M.
- Abstract
Recently, a great deal of concern has been offered to develop safe and environmentally friendly alternatives to harmful agricultural chemicals. As a result, organic agriculture, or organic farming, has gained increasing popularity in recent years and is increasingly distinguished as an integral part of global food production. By definition, organic agriculture is natural agriculture without using chemicals, pesticides, fertilizers, or genetically modified seeds. Instead, the primary goals of organic farming are to maximize the efficient use of soil and its organic elements to improve its sustainability and properties naturally and reduce the demand for chemicals. Furthermore, several epidemiological studies have demonstrated the safety of organic products with a positive relationship between organic food consumption and health. However, before exploring the concept of organic farming in-depth, some questions need to be addressed: What is organic farming? How do conventional and organic farming systems differ? What are the types of organic products? And what is the impact of organic agriculture on food safety? What are the objectives and advantages of organic agriculture? What are organic agriculture’s disadvantages and challenges, and what are the solutions? We address these questions and clarify crucial organic farming concepts in the current literature review.
- Subjects
AGRICULTURAL industries; FOOD production; FOOD safety
- Publication
Journal of King Abdulaziz University: Meteorology, Environment & Arid Land Agriculture Sciences, 2023, Vol 32, Issue 1, p97
- ISSN
1319-1039
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4197/Met.32-1.6