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90 relations: Agrarianism, Agroecology, Agroforestry, Alfalfa, Anaerobic organism, Animal husbandry, Annelid, Bacteria, Barley, Biodiversity loss, Biodynamic agriculture, Biomimetics, Broadcast seeding, Carp, Chinese characters, Citrus, Climax community, Companion planting, Conservation agriculture, Cow dung, Daikon, Duck, Ecoagriculture, Ecological farming, Ecology, Ecosystem, Ethnobotany, Farmer, Fertilizer, Final Straw: Food, Earth, Happiness, Forest gardening, Frank Newman Turner, Fungus, Germination, Groundcover, Herbaceous plant, Herbicide, Holzer Permaculture, Humid subtropical climate, Hydroponics, India, Insect, Integrated pest management, Intercropping, Korean natural farming, Legume, Masanobu Fukuoka, Microbiota, Mokichi Okada, Mulch, ..., Mutualism (biology), Natural landscape, Nature connectedness, Nature Farming, Nitrogen fixation, No-dig gardening, No-till farming, Old-growth forest, Orchard, Organic farming, Performance indicator, Permaculture, Pesticide, Plough, Pruning, Rhizobium, Rice, Seed, Seed ball, Seed saving, Sepp Holzer, Shikoku, Soil erosion, Soil horizon, Spider, Straw, Subhash Palekar, Sustainability, Sustainable agriculture, Temperate climate, Tillage, Topsoil, Traditional ecological knowledge, Trifolium repens, Water pollution, Water potential, Weed, Weed control, Worm, Yoshikazu Kawaguchi. Expand index (40 more) »
Agrarianism
Agrarianism is a social philosophy or political philosophy which values rural society as superior to urban society, the independent farmer as superior to the paid worker, and sees farming as a way of life that can shape the ideal social values.
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Agroecology
Agroecology is the study of ecological processes applied to agricultural production systems.
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Agroforestry
Agroforestry is a land use management system in which trees or shrubs are grown around or among crops or pastureland.
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Alfalfa
Alfalfa, Medicago sativa also called lucerne, is a perennial flowering plant in the pea family Fabaceae cultivated as an important forage crop in many countries around the world.
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Anaerobic organism
An anaerobic organism or anaerobe is any organism that does not require oxygen for growth.
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Animal husbandry
Animal husbandry is the branch of agriculture concerned with animals that are raised for meat, fibre, milk, eggs, or other products.
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Annelid
The annelids (Annelida, from Latin anellus, "little ring"), also known as the ringed worms or segmented worms, are a large phylum, with over 22,000 extant species including ragworms, earthworms, and leeches.
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Bacteria
Bacteria (common noun bacteria, singular bacterium) is a type of biological cell.
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Barley
Barley (Hordeum vulgare), a member of the grass family, is a major cereal grain grown in temperate climates globally.
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Biodiversity loss
Loss of biodiversity or biodiversity loss is the extinction of species (human, plant or animal) worldwide, and also the local reduction or loss of species in a certain habitat.
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Biodynamic agriculture
Biodynamic agriculture is a form of alternative agriculture very similar to organic farming, but it includes various esoteric concepts drawn from the ideas of Rudolf Steiner (1861–1925).
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Biomimetics
Biomimetics or biomimicry is the imitation of the models, systems, and elements of nature for the purpose of solving complex human problems.
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Broadcast seeding
In agriculture, gardening, and forestry, broadcast seeding is a method of seeding that involves scattering seed, by hand or mechanically, over a relatively large area.
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Carp
Carp are various species of oily freshwater fish from the family Cyprinidae, a very large group of fish native to Europe and Asia.
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Chinese characters
Chinese characters are logograms primarily used in the writing of Chinese and Japanese.
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Citrus
Citrus is a genus of flowering trees and shrubs in the rue family, Rutaceae.
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Climax community
In ecology, climax community, or climatic climax community, is a historic term for a biological community of plants, animals, and fungi which, through the process of ecological succession in the development of vegetation in an area over time, have reached a steady state.
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Companion planting
Companion planting in gardening and agriculture is the planting of different crops in proximity for any of a number of different reasons, including pest control, pollination, providing habitat for beneficial creatures, maximizing use of space, and to otherwise increase crop productivity.
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Conservation agriculture
Conservation agriculture (CA) can be defined by a statement given by the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations as “a concept for resource-saving agricultural crop production that strives to achieve acceptable profits together with high and sustained production levels while concurrently conserving the environment” (FAO 2007).
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Cow dung
Cow dung, also known as cow pats, cow pies or cow manure, is the waste product of bovine animal species.
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Daikon
, also known by many other names depending on context, is a mild-flavored winter radish (Raphanus sativus variety (cultivar) 'Longipinnatus') usually characterized by fast-growing leaves and a long, white, root.
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Duck
Duck is the common name for a large number of species in the waterfowl family Anatidae, which also includes swans and geese.
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Ecoagriculture
Eco friendly agriculture describes landscapes that support both agricultural production and biodiversity conservation, working in harmony together to improve the livelihoods of rural communities.
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Ecological farming
Ecological farming is recognised as the high-end objective among the proponents of sustainable agriculture.
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Ecology
Ecology (from οἶκος, "house", or "environment"; -λογία, "study of") is the branch of biology which studies the interactions among organisms and their environment.
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Ecosystem
An ecosystem is a community made up of living organisms and nonliving components such as air, water, and mineral soil.
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Ethnobotany
Ethnobotany is the study of a region's plants and their practical uses through the traditional knowledge of a local culture and people.
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Farmer
A farmer (also called an agriculturer) is a person engaged in agriculture, raising living organisms for food or raw materials.
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Fertilizer
A fertilizer (American English) or fertiliser (British English; see spelling differences) is any material of natural or synthetic origin (other than liming materials) that is applied to soils or to plant tissues to supply one or more plant nutrients essential to the growth of plants.
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Final Straw: Food, Earth, Happiness
Final Straw: Food, Earth, Happiness is a documentary/art film released in June 2015 that takes audiences through farms and urban landscapes in Japan, South Korea, and the United States, interviewing leading practitioners in the Natural Farming movement.
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Forest gardening
Forest gardening is a low-maintenance sustainable plant-based food production and agroforestry system based on woodland ecosystems, incorporating fruit and nut trees, shrubs, herbs, vines and perennial vegetables which have yields directly useful to humans.
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Frank Newman Turner
Frank Newman Turner, NDA, NDD, FNIMH, (11 September 1913 – 28 June 1964) was a pioneering organic farmer, writer and broadcaster, who, based on his experience of natural treatment of animals, later became a consulting medical herbalist and naturopath.
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Fungus
A fungus (plural: fungi or funguses) is any member of the group of eukaryotic organisms that includes microorganisms such as yeasts and molds, as well as the more familiar mushrooms.
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Germination
Germination is the process by which an organism grows from a seed or similar structure.
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Groundcover
Groundcover or ground cover is any plant that grows over an area of ground.
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Herbaceous plant
Herbaceous plants (in botanical use frequently simply herbs) are plants that have no persistent woody stem above ground.
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Herbicide
Herbicides, also commonly known as weedkillers, are chemical substances used to control unwanted plants.
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Holzer Permaculture
The Holzer Permaculture is a branch of permaculture developed independently from the mainstream permaculture in Austria by Sepp Holzer.
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Humid subtropical climate
A humid subtropical climate is a zone of climate characterized by hot and humid summers, and mild to cool winters.
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Hydroponics
Hydroponics is a subset of hydroculture, the method of growing plants without soil, using mineral nutrient solutions in a water solvent.
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India
India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.
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Insect
Insects or Insecta (from Latin insectum) are hexapod invertebrates and the largest group within the arthropod phylum.
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Integrated pest management
Integrated pest management (IPM), also known as integrated pest control (IPC) is a broad-based approach that integrates practices for economic control of pests.
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Intercropping
Intercropping is a multiple cropping practice involving growing two or more crops in proximity.
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Korean natural farming
Korean Natural Farming (KNF) takes advantage of indigenous microorganisms (IMO) (bacteria, fungi, nematodes and protozoa) to produce fertile soils that yield high output without the use of herbicides or pesticides.
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Legume
A legume is a plant or its fruit or seed in the family Fabaceae (or Leguminosae).
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Masanobu Fukuoka
was a Japanese farmer and philosopher celebrated for his natural farming and re-vegetation of desertified lands.
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Microbiota
A microbiota is an "ecological community of commensal, symbiotic and pathogenic microorganisms" found in and on all multicellular organisms studied to date from plants to animals.
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Mokichi Okada
Mokichi Okada (岡田茂吉 Okada Mokichi, 23 December 1882 – 10 February 1955) was the founder of the Church of World Messianity, in which he is known by the honorific title Meishū-sama (明主様, lit. "Lord of Light").
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Mulch
A mulch is a layer of material applied to the surface of soil.
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Mutualism (biology)
Mutualism or interspecific cooperation is the way two organisms of different species exist in a relationship in which each individual benefits from the activity of the other.
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Natural landscape
A natural landscape is the original landscape that exists before it is acted upon by human culture.
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Nature connectedness
Nature connectedness is the extent to which individuals include nature as part of their identity.
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Nature Farming
"Nature Farming" was established in 1936 by Mokichi Okada, the founder of the Church of World Messianity, an agricultural system originally called "no fertilizer farming" or in Japanese.
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Nitrogen fixation
Nitrogen fixation is a process by which nitrogen in the Earth's atmosphere is converted into ammonia (NH3) or other molecules available to living organisms.
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No-dig gardening
No-dig gardening is a non-cultivation method used by some organic gardeners.
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No-till farming
No-till farming (also called zero tillage or direct drilling) is a way of growing crops or pasture from year to year without disturbing the soil through tillage.
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Old-growth forest
An old-growth forest — also termed primary forest, virgin forest, primeval forest, or late seral forest— is a forest that has attained great age without significant disturbance and thereby exhibits unique ecological features and might be classified as a climax community.
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Orchard
An orchard is an intentional planting of trees or shrubs that is maintained for food production.
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Organic farming
Organic farming is an alternative agricultural system which originated early in the 20th century in reaction to rapidly changing farming practices.
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Performance indicator
A performance indicator or key performance indicator (KPI) is a type of performance measurement.
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Permaculture
Permaculture is a system of agricultural and social design principles centered around simulating or directly utilizing the patterns and features observed in natural ecosystems.
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Pesticide
Pesticides are substances that are meant to control pests, including weeds.
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Plough
A plough (UK) or plow (US; both) is a tool or farm implement used in farming for initial cultivation of soil in preparation for sowing seed or planting to loosen or turn the soil.
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Pruning
Pruning is a horticultural and silvicultural practice involving the selective removal of certain parts of a plant, such as branches, buds, or roots.
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Rhizobium
Rhizobium is a genus of Gram-negative soil bacteria that fix nitrogen.
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Rice
Rice is the seed of the grass species Oryza sativa (Asian rice) or Oryza glaberrima (African rice).
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Seed
A seed is an embryonic plant enclosed in a protective outer covering.
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Seed ball
Seed balls, also known as "earth balls" or, consist of a variety of different seeds rolled within a ball of clay, preferably volcanic pyroclastic red clay.
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Seed saving
In agriculture and gardening, seed saving (sometimes known as brown bagging) is the practice of saving seeds or other reproductive material (e.g. tubers) from vegetables, grain, herbs, and flowers for use from year to year for annuals and nuts, tree fruits, and berries for perennials and trees.
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Sepp Holzer
A rainwater harvesting landscape designed by Holzer in Tamera, Portugal Josef "Sepp" Holzer (born July 24, 1942 in Ramingstein, State of Salzburg, Austria) is a farmer, an author, and an international consultant for natural agriculture.
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Shikoku
is the smallest (long and between wide) and least populous (3.8 million) of the four main islands of Japan, located south of Honshu and east of the island of Kyushu.
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Soil erosion
Soil erosion is the displacement of the upper layer of soil, one form of soil degradation.
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Soil horizon
A soil horizon is a layer parallel to the soil surface, whose physical characteristics differ from the layers above and beneath.
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Spider
Spiders (order Araneae) are air-breathing arthropods that have eight legs and chelicerae with fangs that inject venom.
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Straw
Straw is an agricultural by-product, the dry stalks of cereal plants, after the grain and chaff have been removed.
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Subhash Palekar
Subhash Palekar is an Indian agriculturist who practiced and wrote many books about Zero Budget Natural Farming.
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Sustainability
Sustainability is the process of change, in which the exploitation of resources, the direction of investments, the orientation of technological development and institutional change are all in harmony and enhance both current and future potential to meet human needs and aspirations.
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Sustainable agriculture
Sustainable agriculture is farming in sustainable ways based on an understanding of ecosystem services, the study of relationships between organisms and their environment.
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Temperate climate
In geography, the temperate or tepid climates of Earth occur in the middle latitudes, which span between the tropics and the polar regions of Earth.
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Tillage
Tillage is the agricultural preparation of soil by mechanical agitation of various types, such as digging, stirring, and overturning.
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Topsoil
Topsoil is the upper, outermost layer of soil, usually the top to.
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Traditional ecological knowledge
Traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) describes indigenous and other forms of traditional knowledge regarding sustainability of local resources.
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Trifolium repens
Trifolium repens, the white clover (also known as Dutch clover, Ladino clover, or Ladino), is a herbaceous perennial plant in the bean family Fabaceae (previously referred to as Leguminosae).
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Water pollution
Water pollution is the contamination of water bodies, usually as a result of human activities.
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Water potential
Water potential is the potential energy of water per unit volume relative to pure water in reference conditions.
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Weed
A weed is a plant considered undesirable in a particular situation, "a plant in the wrong place".
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Weed control
Weed control is the botanical component of pest control, which attempts to stop weeds, especially noxious or injurious weeds, from competing with desired flora and fauna, this includes domesticated plants and livestock, and in natural settings, it includes stopping non local species competing with native, local, species, especially so in reserves and heritage areas.
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Worm
Worms are many different distantly related animals that typically have a long cylindrical tube-like body and no limbs.
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Yoshikazu Kawaguchi
(1939 –) is the leading Japanese practitioner of the “natural farming” method popularized by Masanobu Fukuoka and has farmed by this method in Sakurai City, Nara Prefecture for 30 years.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_farming
